https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58626
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Bug ID: 58626
Summary: Remove user ID from user preferences output
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Keywords: design
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: User preferences
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
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Classification: Unclassified
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Currently [[Special:Preferences]] shows a user his or her internal user ID. I'm
not sure it makes sense to expose this in the user interface. It's an internal
implementation detail. Plus on wikis with CentralAuth/unified login, there's
additional complexity (i.e., each user has a global user ID and a local user ID
on a particular wiki).
The API should expose and allow the use of a user's ID and there are separate
bugs about that. This bug report is focused purely on the user interface.
Looking at how other software/sites handle this may make sense. For example, I
don't think Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn or Google Apps readily expose user
IDs (apart from URLs, though those also have trended away from exposing user
IDs).
This came up again in the context of <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/101221>.
I'm filing this as an unconfirmed bug. Any input welcome.
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