https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15352

Church of emacs <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #12 from Church of emacs <[email protected]> 2012-05-01 
19:20:45 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> Following on from MZMcBride's attempt to refocus this on the use rather than
> the cool boolean test, couldnt we add something like {{userid:<username>}}
> which returns null, or a value such as uid or guid.

While this seems like a good idea at first, it does come with one problem:
Nonexisting users and IPs are lumped together even though they are two distinct
semantical classes.

So, let's suppose you want to modify MediaWiki:Newarticletext so that it
displays a warning on IP's user talk pages that the person behind the IP
address might have changed. Then this warning about an IP address will also be
displayed on all pages not corresponding to a registered user, which is
confusing.

On the other hand, I don't see a use case where you'd need a users userid.

Unassigning this, since I'm not going to work on it anytime soon.

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