diff --git a/docs/generic_views.txt b/docs/generic_views.txt
index f1de6b2c62..87b82f7adf 100644
--- a/docs/generic_views.txt
+++ b/docs/generic_views.txt
@@ -699,7 +699,10 @@ A page representing a list of objects.
       displayed per page. If this is given, the view will paginate objects with
       ``paginate_by`` objects per page. The view will expect either a ``page``
       query string parameter (via ``GET``) or a ``page`` variable specified in
-      the URLconf. See "Notes on pagination" below.
+      the URLconf. See `Notes on pagination`_ below.
+
+    * ``page``: The current page number, as an integer. This is 1-based. 
+      See `Notes on pagination`_ below.
 
     * ``template_name``: The full name of a template to use in rendering the
       page. This lets you override the default template name (see below).