Last modified: 2013-12-14 21:30:43 UTC
Quering by user is in bug 19195. It was assumed (from IRC conversations) that getting the user id is not easy (requires multiple requests), however from what I can see it's not readable at all. Not even with multiple requests. list=allusers, list=usercontribs, list=users, none return the id by default or with a property. Roan wanted to implement this right away but had to leave. Will file here for him later or for myself if I have the time.
What is it needed for? It's just an internal database handle, essentially implementation detail.
On Trunk: From list=allusers <allusers> <u name="Babel AutoCreate" userid="2" /> <u name="Reedy" userid="1" /> </allusers> list=usercontribs <query> <usercontribs> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="1" revid="31" ns="0" title="Main Page" timestamp="2011-02-25T16:01:31Z" top="" comment="source" size="548" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="1" revid="30" ns="0" title="Main Page" timestamp="2011-02-24T16:19:17Z" minor="" comment="p" size="496" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="4" revid="29" ns="6" title="File:WFM.png" timestamp="2011-02-24T00:03:41Z" top="" comment="uploaded a new version of &quot;[[File:WFM.png]]&quot;: Test" size="4" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="1" revid="26" ns="0" title="Main Page" timestamp="2011-02-16T23:32:56Z" comment="{{DISPLAYTITLE:main Page}}" size="496" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="21" revid="25" ns="1" title="Talk:Main Page" timestamp="2011-02-16T23:20:25Z" new="" top="" comment="Talk page autocreated when first thread was posted" size="0" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="20" revid="24" ns="90" title="Thread:Talk:Main Page/Test" timestamp="2011-02-16T23:20:24Z" new="" top="" comment="New thread: Test" size="4" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="1" revid="23" ns="0" title="Main Page" timestamp="2011-02-11T01:13:49Z" comment="Test2" size="468" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="19" revid="22" ns="0" title="Test2" timestamp="2011-02-11T01:13:41Z" new="" top="" comment="Redirected page to [[wikipedia:Test]]" size="28" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="1" revid="21" ns="0" title="Main Page" timestamp="2011-02-11T01:13:19Z" minor="" comment="[[wikipedia:Test]]" size="477" /> <item userid="1" user="Reedy" pageid="17" revid="19" ns="8" title="MediaWiki:Gadgets-definition" timestamp="2011-02-10T14:10:52Z" new="" top="" comment="one" size="54" /> </usercontribs> </query>
list=allusers: r71831 list=usercontribs: r71837 list=users is missing
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