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?
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