Vorlage:Oldid/doc

This is a documentation subpage for Vorlage:Oldid.
It contains usage information, categories and other content that is not part of the original vorlage page.

This template create links to "oldids"; that is, links to old versions of a wiki page.

Every historical version of a page has a revision ID, which you can find from the links on the history of the page, or from the URL of the old revision. Given a page name and a revision IDs of it, you can construct a link to that particular version.

Usage

{{oldid|page|oldid|label}}

code	result
`{{oldid\|Main Page\|589841\|Link to a 2003 version of the Main Page}}`	Link to a 2003 version of the Main Page The label= parameter (parameter number 3) should be the link text description (optional).
`{{oldid\|Main Page\|589841}}`	Old revision of Main Page The oldid= parameter (parameter number 2) should be the known revision number.
`{{oldid\|Main Page}}`	Current version of Main Page (pretty useless) The page= parameter (parameter number 1) should be the name of the page. The oldid= parameter (parameter number 2) can be cur (or leave it empty) for the current version.