Thread:Project:Support desk/Is http://de.wikipedia.org/?curid=2809853 an expoloit or can this be considered as a legitimate stable redirect ?/reply (4)

This is really not the right place to ask this sort of question. You should probably ask an ops person (I'd imagine), and I don't believe they generally look through this form.

>Question: Can MadiaWiki assure that these shorter urls are legitimete, stable, well documented and used as testcases before any further >release is submited to svn? Thank you very much for your future answers. gangleri לערי ריינהארט (talk) 19:10, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

This (the lack of needing /w/index.php) is related to how Wikimedia (not mediawiki) is configured (As in how the apaches are configured). This sort of behaviour would not necessarily happen on non-wikimedia mediawiki installs.

addendum: The above I was talking about if doing curid without /w/index.php is stable. For your second question (difference between curid and oldid) curid is the page's number. oldid is the revision number. oldid changes on every revision. curid only changes on edge cases (like being deleted and restored). Note that the proposed short url extension will use a different number that is neither curid or the oldid.