Page metadata

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Apart from the source (the content itself) the data about a current or old version of a page are as follows.

The edit metadata, the metadata of the edit that resulted in the particular version, are:


 * first or not
 * minor or not
 * date and time
 * name of page
 * username or IP
 * edit summary

Other data about a page are:


 * protected or not
 * internally:
 * id (for old versions these are shown in the URLs of page history links)
 * for current version only:
 * redirect or not
 * viewing counter (disabled)
 * which pages link to which
 * which users watch which pages

Note that there is some redundancy for efficiency: also clear from the content are:


 * whether a page is a redirect
 * which pages link to which

See en:Wikipedia:Edit summary for lists of edit metadata.

For details see the documentation at Sourceforge.

See also XML export, RDF metadata