[Mediawiki-api] BREAKING CHANGES
Roan Kattouw
roan.kattouw at home.nl
Sun Jan 27 19:45:23 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?
For consistency, that's probably a good idea. I'm on it.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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