Last modified: 2011-03-13 18:05:07 UTC
Hi! Please see the link for an example. title="User:#1338201" gives the impression that it is a Mediawiki Page Title, but is in fact invalid... In fact, the related sql entry in the logging table stores log_title as "#1338201"; I don't see why the title is prefixed by "User:"?! (Well, since log_ns is always equal to NS_USER for these entries, a Title object created from log_ns & log_title is likely to end up in User space, true...) Can this be avoided ? Also, since title parameter (with or without User: prefix) should not be interpreted as a Page title, would it be possible to add a specific details field in the returned data to emphasize this? autoblock="" ? flags="autoblock" ? (As of now, flags are unused for action="unblock") Thanks!
It's prefixed with User: because that's how we store titles, as a namespace/title pair. The problem here is the general assumption by our logging infrastructure that every action is done "to" a title. This could easily be fixed, but it would be a breaking change.
(In reply to comment #1) > This could easily be fixed, but it would be a breaking change. > I recommend WONTFIX. While it certainly does not look nice, it does not wrong either.
This is how it's stored in the database; the fact that it uses NS_USER for these things is quirky, but not the API's fault. Also, it's not a big deal at all once you know about it.
