https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25602

--- Comment #8 from MZMcBride <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #7)
> If I were going to produce these dumps, it wouldn't be a straight select,
> because we'd have to check if the user name is hidden or whether the public
> is permitted to see it.  This means a pho script and xml output and probably
> batched queries for a measly two fields that are already available through
> other means.  So I'm really leaning towards WONTFIX.

This bug covers far more than two fields. If you'd like a full list of missing
tables and fields from the public dumps, I can put one together.

The English Wikipedia has over 19,000,000 registered users. While the MediaWiki
Web API can be used to retrieve some of this information, are we really
suggesting that polling the API 3,800 times (this assumes batches of 5,000) is
the best way to dump the user table? That seems kind of insane.

-- 
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

Reply via email to