That said, there was an attempt in 2013 to provide Memento support, which would (partially) mitigate this problem by using appropriate templates:
http://mementoweb.org/wikipedia/
Of course, this would still be vulnerable to deleted images etc. And we weren't even thinking about Wikidata transclusions then :-)
Andrew.
On 23 January 2015 at 16:09, Petr Kadlec petr.kadlec@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
The oldid. At the moment, I trust our long-term viability more than a 2014 web-archiving startup, even one with praiseworthy names attached ;-)
Possibly an obvious remark: an oldid-based permalink gets you an old version of the source text of the specific page, but does not give you the original visible _result_: The page is reparsed and displayed using the _current_ version of all used templates, images, data from Wikidata etc. We do not store the complete state anywhere, so perma.cc does provide extra value here.
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