On 12/31/05, Magnus Manske magnus.manske@web.de wrote:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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What's the point of allowing user agents to specify a user ID to limit to?

The point is to have a "my pictures" link to click on in the sidebar, similar to "my contributions"; also, possible, "list images uploaded by userXYZ". I didn't get around to the interface part yet.

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This should use ->getText() and User::newFromName() instead.

Why?

Because it doesn't make sense to make users specify a user ID for a user to show uploads for, we specify things by username everywhere else (e.g. Special:Contributions/Ævar not Special:Contributions/123234). If you made the user specify a username instead of an idea you'd use that.

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and wfMsg() instead of wfMsgForContent().

OK. It seems to work both ways. As this is open source, and you were looking at it anyway, you just fixed it, right?

No, I wanted to check with you why you did it because it seemed quite strange.