Template:REVISIONUSER/doc

About REVISIONUSER
is a "magic word" that returns the last person to change an article. On November 14, 2013, this feature was expanded to include, 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: ->. (i.e. User:)

But you can get this straight from the parser function by typing.


 * 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  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:  ->
 * For User:***SkooterBecca***:  ->
 * or  ->
 * 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.