Rotem Liss schreef:
>
> Are they? Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Export/Main_Page 
> (and 
> the XML dumps) - you can usually get the user ID from his user page this way, 
> or 
> any other page he has edited; also note that the Stewards can use the user 
> IDs 
> instead of the user names. I think it's better to have the user IDs public, 
> to 
> have a unique identifier of each user, and not to have problems with 
> non-latin 
> usernames. You can't do anything dangerous with the user ID (if you can, this 
> is 
> a bug which should be fixed, but I know no such bug).
True. Still, what would you need the user ID for?

Roan Kattouw (Catrope)

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