On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Bryan Tong Minh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mediawiki-api mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api > > > 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.
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