>> Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Generally I would not recommend subclassing User; while you can certainly
> create such a subclass it will have limited utility as you can't really
> control how they get created easily.
>
> Like the rest of MediaWiki, the User class is intended to be customized
> through extension hooks... What sort of behavior customization are you
> thinking of doing?

Some example:

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92252/

needs https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/92179/ in core,
that gives some method to override.

Surprisinly, it even works (rc_ip will be set to "" on
AbuseFilter blocks).

//Saper


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