usernames passed to api.php are not normalized. lowercase first letter guarantees empty result set
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	jeremyb
	Aug 9 2007, 10:20 AM

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Version: 1.11.x
Severity: trivial
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&list=allusers&aulimit=1&auprop=groups|editcount&auprefix=yurik

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robchur wrote:

Username normalisation for "list=allusers" was fixed in r24870. There might be other examples of poor username handling throughout the API.

(In reply to comment #1)

Username normalisation for "list=allusers" was fixed in r24870. There might be
other examples of poor username handling throughout the API.

If that is the case, those issues should be filed separately. Closing as FIXED,
as this particular issue was fixed in r24870.