Bobby S wrote:
Is there a magic word, extension, or query of some
sort that allows a
user to bring back the username of the original author of an article?
No. Mediawiki doesn't have any concept of "original author". Keep in
mind that old revisions can come and go.
Is there one that does the same but for the current
(last) author of
the article?
That's bug 10336 (or perhaps bug 12733, a duplicate imho)
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10336