bounding box values orderorder: (lat,lon,lat,lon) vs. (lat,lat,lon,lon)
The order of the values in a bounding box does not seem to be consistent.
[http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bounding_Box][1] says the order is "left,bottom,right,top", or "min Longitude , min Latitude , max Longitude , max Latitude". This seems to be the order given in the box at the top in the search that is displayed when doing an HTML query at [http://nominatim.openstreetmaps.org][2].
But the ordered returned by an XML or JSON query is "lat1, lat2, lon1, lon2".
Is the wiki wrong or incomplete? Where else are the two different orders used, and which is more canonical?
[1]: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bounding_Box
[2]: http://nominatim.openstreetmaps.org