On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 19:59:31 +0200, Eckhart Wörner ew@ewsoftware.de wrote:

Hello,

is there a possibility to get

a) the markup text of a wikipedia article,

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=article&action=raw&ctype=...

b) the markup of a specific article version and

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Article&action=raw&ctype=...

c) the current version number of an article?

No idea

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Eckhart Wörner wrote:

Hello,

is there a possibility to get

a) the markup text of a wikipedia article,

[[Special:Export]] or grab it from the edit page.

b) the markup of a specific article version and

Snarf it from the edit page.

c) the current version number of an article?

What do you mean by version number? If you mean the timestamp when it was edited, this should be in both Special:Export output and snarfable from the edit page. If you mean the count of how many edits have been made, there is none. If you mean the old_id of the *current* revision, it doesn't exist -- old_id identifies rows in the old table, and cur revisions thus don't have one.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)