On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 3:48 AM, Daan Kuijsten <daankuijsten(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
A better way for fetching content via an API is to
assign a unique ID to a
section, a paragraph, a table, an image etc. This way we could simply fetch
a part of the content of wikipedia via this ID.
That doesn't sound much better. Say a vandal blanks a page then someone
reverts, and probably all your unique ID numbers will have changed. Or
someone renames a section or edits a paragraph, or combines two sections,
or splits a section into two, etc.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation