Board Thread:Technical Updates/@comment-126761-20180124213059/@comment-27345308-20180208084539

Abeserra wrote: I believe that Wikia has a central database for all users. No long time ago, Special:ListUsers was displaying all Wikia users, not just the "local" ones. Wikia does have a central database for users, but in their central database only global rights are stored, as Vengir said. Andrewds1021 wrote: Otherwise, they would have to query every wiki to see what your status is in order to display it on Special:UserActivity. Surprisingly, UserActivity extension actually queries the MediaWiki API on every wiki that is about to get displayed to get local groups of users... Other things are fetched through LookupContribs that queries a table in a central database though. I also just realized it should only display bureaucrat, sysop and chat moderator rights.