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Bug 165 - Permanent citation link to current revision unavailable

Summary:	Permanent citation link to current revision unavailable

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 181 Product: MediaWiki Classification: Unclassified Component: General/Unknown (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: All All Importance: High minor (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2004-08-18 19:11 UTC by SJ Modified: 2005-07-17 13:40 UTC (History) CC List: 0 users See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description SJ 2004-08-18 19:11:03 UTC Should one want a permalink to a current article, in the unlikely case of writing an article and wanting a reliable source-link to the text from which a quote was taken, one would be out of luck. Comment 1 Antoine "hashar" Musso (WMF) 2004-08-18 19:46:35 UTC Use the links in history For [[Main Page]] revision of 2004 May 31st use: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Main_Page&oldid=3816725 Comment 2 Zigger 2005-07-17 13:40:11 UTC *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 181 ***