Simetrical wrote:
On Feb 7, 2008 1:45 PM, tlaqua@svn.wikimedia.org wrote:
- Disallowing deleting user_id 1 (WikiSysop/Admin/whatever)
MediaWiki doesn't have any concept of a root user, and it seems like a bad idea to try to enforce such an idea in an extension. User 1 is just the one who set up the wiki, who might or might not be any kind of special authority.
Further, if the DB's been wiped and rebuilt a few times, there may well not be a user number 1.
No assumptions whatsoever can be made about the meaning or presence of any user IDs, except that a recorded ID of 0 in another table indicates a non-account (IPs, pre-conversion users, special maintenance tasks, etc)
-- brion