extmetadata should return a link to the uploader's user page
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	MarkTraceur
	Dec 19 2013, 12:57 AM

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This could solve multiple issues, actually:

We currently credit the latest uploader in the API return values. That's not really sound given our community's practices about uploads. So we can use the user page of the very first uploader instead of the last one.

I can't construct a User: page link from foreign DB repo info, because it only returns a descBaseUrl value, which isn't helpful for constructing User: links, only for File: links.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 2:35 AM

• bzimport set Reference to bz58679.

Easy to do, could be a GCI task if there still aren't enough of those.

Tgr removed Tgr as the assignee of this task.Dec 23 2014, 11:19 PM

Tgr added a project: Multimedia.

Does not seem easy after all - needs to be read from a different table (oldimage) which would require rethinking how file information is cached.

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