[Mediawiki-api] BREAKING CHANGE to meta=userinfo

[Bryan Tong Minh]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Bryan Tong Minh
<bryan.tongminh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Roan Kattouw <roan.kattouw at home.nl> wrote:
>  > 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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>  Hello,
>
>  What influence does this have on asking user information on the
>  currentuser? Is that still in meta or is that also moved to
>  list=users?
>
>  Bryan
>
Ok, never mind, from code I understand that the it has been changed
back to its old behaviour.

Bryan