--- Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
I was thinking here. What if you could name and address every version of an article, e.g. ... http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Radio/12
That already works. The format is: http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=&revision=
For instance, revision 770 of HomePage is http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki.cgi?action=browse&id=HomePage&revision...
It would be trivial to configure wikipedia.com to translate a flat URL like Lars suggests so it returned the requested revision. The only problem today is that old revisions are purged. (HomePage only goes back to #709 on October 5, for example.)
How 'bout it, O beneficent and philanthropic owner of the database (Jimbo)? Would you be willing to disable the purge of old revisions? Seems to me mostly to be a matter of disk space.
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