(In reply to comment #0)

I'm not sure it's still technically CDATA, but there are values in the page
source that JavaScript scripts can easily look up (e.g., wgPageName and
wgCanonicalNamespace). It would be helpful to be able to easily look up a
user's edit count using a wgEditCount variable. This would help with targeting
scripts to more experienced or inexperienced users, for example, without
needing a separate API call.

Per-user stuff should be added in Skin::makeGlobalVariablesScript() IIRC.

I'm not sure what the behavior should be for logged out users. I think
wgEditCount = 0 makes the most sense, though maybe there are better
alternatives.

Zero sounds good to me. Scripts can already detect whether the user is logged in or not anyway.

See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/45257/ , by Ori Livneh.

I think null is less misleading than 0, though.

(In reply to comment #2)

See https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/45257/

Patch obsoleted by https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/51081/ and merged.
Is anything else needed or can this be closed as FIXED?

We can close it.