resolveArticle
resolveArticle is a term used in digital knowledge bases and wiki systems to describe the process or service that maps a user-supplied reference to the canonical article record within a repository. It accepts a variety of input forms, including a page title, a full or partial URL, an internal identifier, or a natural language query, and returns a specific article entry along with metadata such as the revision, location, and any redirects followed.
The primary purpose is to ensure stable linking and accurate rendering by resolving aliases, redirects, disambiguation
Versioning is often integrated, allowing a request to resolve to the latest stable revision or to a
Common use cases include link checking and maintenance, programmatic linking of external content, API endpoints that
Limitations include ambiguity in titles, rapidly changing aliases, and the possibility of circular redirects. Robust resolveArticle