Allow querying contributions of interwiki usernames

[lhc/web/wiklou.git] / includes / api / ApiBase.php

diff --git a/includes/api/ApiBase.php b/includes/api/ApiBase.php
index 228d319..73315a0 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/api/ApiBase.php
+++ b/includes/api/ApiBase.php
@@ -1615,6 +1615,10 @@ abstract class ApiBase extends ContextSource {
         * @return string Validated and normalized parameter
         */
        private function validateUser( $value, $encParamName ) {
+               if ( ExternalUserNames::isExternal( $value ) && User::newFromName( $value, false ) ) {
+                       return $value;
+               }
+
                $title = Title::makeTitleSafe( NS_USER, $value );
                if ( $title === null || $title->hasFragment() ) {
                        $this->dieWithError(