[Wikipedia-l] Permalink? was RE: [WikiEN-l] Brilliant prose rename brainstorm

Daniel Mayer maveric149 at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 13 07:28:22 UTC 2003


The Cunctator wrote:

>That reminds me...can we add a little <permanent URL for this version>
>at the bottom of the article pages?
>
>We can find the link to the archived copy of previous versions, but
>there's presently no way to make a hard link to the presently displayed
>version.
>
>That would be a very simple step in making Wikipedia usable as an
>"authoritative" resource, for one thing.
>
>It's also helpful for internal discussions if you want to have a
>discussion comparing different versions of the same entry.

Yes - this is a very good idea and should be enough while we argue in circles 
about just how to set-up "stable" versions of Wikipedia content. 

--mav




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