API should allow change of userrights using user id
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	Umherirrender
	Nov 19 2011, 4:16 PM

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Please allow changing userrights by userid, not username. (action=userrights)

Thanks.

Version: 1.20.x
Severity: enhancement

Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Open	Feature	None	T29810 ID related API requests (tracking)
Resolved		Anomie	T21195 Make user IDs more readily available with the API
Resolved		None	T34493 API should allow change of userrights using user id

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If you set the 'username' field as "#1111" where 1111 is the user id, it'll work.

Change 101502 had a related patch set uploaded by Legoktm:
Explicitly support user id in action=userrights

(In reply to comment #1)

But I imagine the request here is to add a userid parameter to action=userrights, which you seem to have understood. ;-)

(In reply to comment #1)

If you set the 'username' field as "#1111" where 1111 is the user id, it'll
work.

Than this needs documentation for the parameter on api.php
It is a possible way to avoid a new parameter.

(In reply to comment #4)

Than this needs documentation for the parameter on api.php
It is a possible way to avoid a new parameter.

It probably makes more sense to deprecate the "#<userid>" trick, maybe.

Change merged. It should be deployed with 1.23wmf8, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.23/Roadmap for the schedule.

Change 101502 merged by jenkins-bot:
Explicitly support user id in action=userrights