https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15352
--- Comment #13 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> 2012-05-02 01:52:12 UTC --- (In reply to comment #12) > (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. IPs have a user ID of 0. Non-existent users have a user ID of ''. ;-) That's probably a bit nasty of an implementation, but the point is that there are ways to work around what you're talking about. The initial approach (#if_ip) really is too specialized and ambiguous to be useful, I think. I think this bug may end up never being resolved if Lua comes to fruition. We'll see. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
