Rotem Liss schreef:
Are they? Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Main_Page (and the XML dumps) - you can usually get the user ID from his user page this way, or any other page he has edited; also note that the Stewards can use the user IDs instead of the user names. I think it's better to have the user IDs public, to have a unique identifier of each user, and not to have problems with non-latin usernames. You can't do anything dangerous with the user ID (if you can, this is a bug which should be fixed, but I know no such bug).
True. Still, what would you need the user ID for?
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)