Last modified: 2004-10-12 18:22:39 UTC
BUG MIGRATED FROM SOURCEFORGE http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=622636&group_id=34373&atid=411192 Originally submitted by Nobody/Anonymous - nobody 2002-10-13 17:19 When the software renders a URI containing 'oldid', it does not check that the revision number corresponds to a version of the article requested. So one can induce Wikipedia to display a misleading page such as: http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User:Lee_Daniel_Crocker&oldid=269768 ------------------------- Additional comments ------------------------ Date: 2002-10-14 02:16 Sender: SF user vibber Uhh.. undocumented feature? ;) Actually, The ability to do a diff between two different pages could be pretty handy from time to time. But, the interface should probably reflect it if it's allowed. ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2002-11-29 22:31 Sender: SF user tobybartels Brion's right; we should allow diffs between a version of an article at a new name and a version of what was the same article but at an old name (in some context where moving the page didn't work). A warning at the top of the displayed diff page should be sufficient. ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-05-08 13:09 Sender: SF user dittaeva I tried to see if this thing still is true. So here goes. Am I right when assuming that the reported bug here was that one could do a diff between to different versions of different articles, and that it was (rightly, in my opinion) really a desired feature just missing some implementation? When updating the supplied link from www to en, I get the latest version of the User:Lee_Daniel_Crocker page. So I tried to do a diff between an old version of the "User: Lee_Daniel_Crocker" article and a new version of the "Philosophy" article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=User: Lee_Daniel_Crocker&dummy=1&diff=227737&oldid=3365750 and it works! But I see that this is a result from link tricking that has not been implemented and as one can only do it by link tricking I suppose it is not necessary to do anything about it. ------------------------------------------------- Date: 2004-05-11 11:52 Sender: SF user vibber I've checked in a change to 1.3 that will show the actual names of both specified pages on these trick URLs. ie, for the title it'll show: Philosophy, User:Lee Daniel Crocker Still no UI for getting at it, but it'll look nicer while you're there. (This was a side effect of fixing bug #950911; I had to check the titles for security, and then why not show them?) There may still be oddities, so I'm leaving the bug open for now.
