Add support for CentralAuth queries

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http://code.google.com/p/perlwikipedia/issues/detail?id=109

Reported by project member mike.lifeguard, Jul 16, 2010
We have support for checking if an account was ever locked, but not support for other queries: Is an account /currently/ locked? hidden? What is the reason?

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Delete comment Comment 4 by project member mike.lifeguard, Jun 4, 2011
There are log types available, but it doesn't appear that /current/ status can be queried.

http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/api.php?action=help&querymodules=logevents

[wp-seth]

there is is_blocked now which returns whether a user is currently blocked.
however, it does not give more information (about the reason for blocking etc.).

so i suggest to let this function return a hash ref with all the information from the API. this should be downward-compatible in most cases, but not all cases. so i'd mark this a feature the next major version.

[wp-seth]

oops, you were talking about locked and not blocked. sorry for my misunderstanding.

the current state might be checked by fetching all locked and unlocked states and then see what is the newest.