On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Haim (Howard) Roman <roman(a)jct.ac.il> wrote:
Is there a way to see the wikitext of an article in
read-only mode, i.e.,
such that I cannot accidentally change it? This can be useful, of course,
for copying wikitext to another article.
You could get it via the API. What you're looking for is prop=revisions with
rvprop=content[0]. An example query for [[API]] on MediaWiki.org[1].
-Chad
[0]
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties#revisions_.2F_rv
[1]
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titl…