Template:REVISIONUSER
About REVISIONUSER
{REVISIONUSER} is a "magic word" that returns the last person to change an article. On November 14, 2013, this feature was expanded to include {REVISIONUSER:(article-name)}, which makes it possible to query who edited any of a number of other articles. This template does not need to be used in place of the magic word normally, but is provided so that a WP:Lua module can use frame:expandTemplate to access this function. (There may well be some other better way to do this).
Example: {REVISIONUSER|Astronomy} -> Citation bot. (i.e. User:Citation bot)
But you can get this straight from the parser function by typing {REVISIONUSER:Astronomy}.
- Limitations
- Note: Use of REVISIONUSER with a parameter appears to be counted as an expensive parser function against the page limit. This can be confirmed using Module:Preview expense.
- There is a Bug in the
{REVISIONUSER}magic word (tracked in Phabricator as Task T166946) which prevents it from working properly if the user name starts with certain wiki-markup characters such as a * and possible other characters. The work-around is to wrap the call to the magic word with the nowiki function of Module:String2:- For this page:
{#invoke:String2|nowiki|{REVISIONUSER}-> Vaulter - For User:***SkooterBecca***:
{#invoke:String2|nowiki|{REVISIONUSER:User:***SkooterBecca***}-> ***SkooterBecca*** - or
{#invoke:String2|nowiki|{REVISIONUSER|User:***SkooterBecca***}-> ***SkooterBecca***
- For this page:
- For consistency with the magic word, this template does not make that adjustment. The assumption is that if you are using frame:expandTemplate you also have the ability to implement code similar to the nowiki function of Module:String2.