[Mediawiki-l] Can ArticleID be shown to public?

a@kid a at kid632.org
Thu May 25 14:11:59 UTC 2006


Is there any security risk in showing an article's ID number to the  
public?

I'm working on a quick and dirty hack to add forum style discussions  
to my wiki. It's a temporary solution until we see what happens with  
Liquid Threads. I am putting all of the threads in their own  
namespace 'Discussion' and I'm trying to decide on the naming  
convention for the page titles ...

Discussion:RelatedAritcleID/Topic title ... ie: 4018/Something
or
Discussion:RelatedPageTitle/Topic Title ... ie: Big round things/ 
Something

I was leaning towards articleID because its shorter and will continue  
to work even after a related article has been moved. But i don't know  
if there is any risk in showing the articleID to users.

thanks in advance



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