On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Roan Kattouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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