[Mediawiki-api] BREAKING CHANGE to meta=userinfo

Roan Kattouw roan.kattouw at home.nl
Sun Jan 27 20:30:01 UTC 2008


Yuri Astrakhan schreef:

> I am not sure meta=userinfo should have info on other users. All 
> meta=... queries are about the state of the entire site as viewed from 
> the currently logged in user. This is cleaner and, among other things, 
> security is easier to maintain.
>
> list= is much better suited for various non-current-user specific 
> queries. list already has allusers and usercontribs - similar to 
> getting user info. We could add some other list=... query to get user 
> contribs and other public data in bulk (for many users).  Your thoughts?

This was done in r30197:
* meta=userinfo
** Getting information about new users (a relatively new feature anyway) 
has been moved to list=users

NOTE: This is NOT YET LIVE on Wikimedia servers, and no one knows 
exactly when it will be.

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)



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