Last modified: 2008-11-22 15:47:10 UTC
First: leuser does not allow underscores in place of spaces, but ucuser does, can they be made consistent? Preferred is to have _ always an alias for %20. Compare: http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs|logevents&lelimit=1&uclimit=1&ucprop=timestamp&leprop=timestamp|user&ucuser=Tim_Starling&leuser=Tim_Starling http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs|logevents&lelimit=1&uclimit=1&ucprop=timestamp&leprop=timestamp|user&ucuser=Tim_Starling&leuser=Tim%20Starling Second: leuser errors out if the user doesn't exist, but ucuser simply returns an empty contributions list. I am not sure which is ideal. Compare: http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=usercontribs&uclimit=1&ucprop=timestamp&ucuser=NOSUCHUSER http://test.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=logevents&lelimit=1&leprop=timestamp|user&leuser=NOSUCHUSER
(In reply to comment #0) > First: leuser does not allow underscores in place of spaces, but ucuser does, > can they be made consistent? Preferred is to have _ always an alias for %20. Fixed in r43864. > Second: leuser errors out if the user doesn't exist, but ucuser simply returns > an empty contributions list. I am not sure which is ideal. That's because the revision table (which usercontribs uses) stores the user ID and the user name (0 and the IP respectively for anons), while the logging table (which logevents uses) only stores the user ID. That means anons can't have log entries (bug 3732) and that you can't search the logging table for users that don't exist, because you need to look up their user ID first.
