Hi,

I've set up a mediawiki installation with users authentication via the LDAP Authentication Plugin. Unfortunately I have to use the "cn" attribute in our directory to search and login users. So the "cn" Attribute is used as the mediawiki username and further mediawiki attributes (like RealName, Nickname, email) are retrieved from LDAP upon user creation/login. So my wiki-users have really nice and consistent NickNames throughout the company and it's ensured that there are no double-users (because cn is unique in our LDAP tree).

But: It's quite uncomfortable if you look at the recent changes or change history of a page. By default mediawiki will display the username of the user who changed the file and not the RealName or NickName. In my case that would be something like AKxxxxxx (our employee-ID).

Apart from that using an employee-ID as Common-name in LDAP is really bad in my opinion (but i can't change that), it might be a good feature if there was an option "$wgUseRealNameInUserLinks" so that the Real Name is shown in the changes history.

I have hacked that into my installation (1.8.2) and it's only a minor change in includes/Linker.php:

*** 761,767 **** * @private */ function userLink( $userId, $userText ) { ! $encName = htmlspecialchars( User::whoIsReal($userId) ); if( $userId == 0 ) { $contribsPage = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL, 'Contributions' ); return $this->makeKnownLinkObj( $contribsPage, --- 761,767 ---- * @private */ function userLink( $userId, $userText ) { ! $encName = htmlspecialchars( $userText ); if( $userId == 0 ) { $contribsPage = Title::makeTitle( NS_SPECIAL, 'Contributions' ); return $this->makeKnownLinkObj( $contribsPage,

I think my case is not that unique and this feature would help using mediawiki in enterprises.

What's your opinion? Reinhard