Background: T17294#9560358
Per the above task 3rd party tools currently do not have a reliable way to know whether a temporary account is expired.
Use cases:
Note that some related work is happening in T358469: Display expired temporary account names differently
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resolved | Tchanders | T358030 Denote whether a temporary account is expired for third party tools access | |||
| Resolved | kostajh | T357935 Show temp user status on Special:CentralAuth/<username> |
I think the easiest way to do this would be T359064: Decide if we want to represent temporary account expiry with system blocks.
(The nicest way might be T358469: Display expired temporary account names differently but that seems trickier to implement.)
We are going ahead with implementing T358469: Display expired temporary account names differently so I will merge this task into that one.
This task I also propose we can check whether temporary account is expired via API. E.g. Twinkle can skip notifying such temporary accounts.
Yeah. This can be resolved as the API indicates this information now. If additional places need support, I think a more focused separate task would be better so that it is clear when its done