2009/6/25 Joseph Reagle <reagle(a)mit.edu>du>:
Can we make
that even more succinct? Well, we could take a leaf from
the DOI playbook, and set up something like:
http://[site]/wp:en/6042007
So the oldid's are globally unique (among a language subdomain)? If that's
the case, the answer to Charles' question of how hard it is could be not
hard at all. (Perhaps even doable with some simple Apache rewrites, but
WP is a complex architecture.)
My understanding is that the revision id is globally unique for a
given wiki, yes. Handily, it also works for images - uploading an
image generates a new revision id for the description page, so we can
link to a specific version of the image without having to go for the
bare URL.
(When I noted [site] there, incidentally, I was thinking of something
which we manage inhouse, but operating through a new and shorter
domain name for simplicity.)
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk