Thread:Project:Support desk/Is http://de.wikipedia.org/?curid=2809853 an expoloit or can this be considered as a legitimate stable redirect ?/reply (3)

mw.config.set({,,,, wgPageName":"Ernst_Lossa","wgTitle":"Ernst Lossa", "wgCurRevisionId":99548829 ,"wgArticleId":2809853, ...} ...)

nr. 0 http://de.wikipedia.org/?curid=2809853

nr. 1 http://de.wikipedia.org/?oldid=99548829 today the "last"

nr. 2 http://de.wikipedia.org/?oldid=99548703 today the "previous"

The reason about short urls was addressed between others at 0023427 - "Introduce magic word to provide the page_id of the current page ". More features request on short url topic where raised by WikiMedia comunities in languages based on other scripts then Latin. I remember many raised by Wikipedia in Russian.

While url 0 renders (nearly) as de:Ernst Lossa (I say "nearly" because I have not compared the page source codes with advanced tools), url 1 seems to contain url 0 together with some links to diff functionality. url 1 is not stable I mean it is not linking to the most actual page as url 0 does. It will have the same "''kismet'" as url 2.

To fully understand the question: Is url 0 "always" linking to the most actual version of this article? The question is not if the actual page title will always be redirected to a renamed page as "Ernst Lossa (foobar)" That is a maintenance issue of the wiki community. The question is not related to the question what happens if the article / page is deleted and if some revisions are restored again. (In some discussions I was listening to some opinions that a new "wgArticleId" would / might be assigned by the database. לערי ריינהארט (talk) 00:53, 30 March 2012 (UTC)