Thread:Project:Support desk/Is http://de.wikipedia.org/?curid=2809853 an expoloit or can this be considered as a legitimate stable redirect ?/reply (2)

It took me some time to get what you mean, but I think I got it. :-) The value of "curid" does not have to do with a way to identify Ernst Lossa as a person.

The value only is an internal identifier in MediaWiki. All it does is to instruct MediaWiki to get the page data for the article, which was saved in the database with the unique id 2809853. The page which was saved directly after this version has the id 2809854. Some documentation is available in Manual:Parameters_to_index.php.