binbot added a comment.
My 2 cents:
Pywikibot does not have the mission to correct ambigiousness of MediaWiki.
u.isAnonymous() should first examine isinstance(u, pywikibot.User).
If it is instantiated as Page, it should act as Page.
If it is instantiated as User, we should check the
gerritbot added a comment.
Change 288915 **abandoned** by Xqt:
[pywikibot/core@master] [bugfix] fix isAnonymous result for ip ranges
Reason:
Not an appropriate patch
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288915
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https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135359
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Xqt added a comment.
Yes I agree it is a problem because "user:212.65.1.102/16" may be a valid
subpage of "user:212.65.1.102" and is not a range. On the other hand we need
some sort of tools to handle IP ranges coming from log entries which acts like
a user for some methods. No idea yet.
jayvdb added a comment.
I suspect that you're calling this a bug because some log entries types have
IP ranges, but the bug is that logentries.py creates a User class for them. A
`page.User` object is a subclass of `page.Page` (with an implicit User:
namespace), so it only reasonable if it
gerritbot added a comment.
Change 288915 had a related patch set uploaded (by Xqt):
[bugfix] fix isAnonymous result for ip ranges
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/288915
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135359
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