Hey everyone,
We don't have a {{USERNAME}} variable. It's been requested about 3 times, and each request has been rejected for a good reason; it would defeat page caching completely. This would not be helpful. Rob Church
With my level of technical knowledge, I'm not exactly sure why this would defeat page caching. Do you have a link or two to suggest so I would understand better what's at stake here.
I was really planning on relying heavily on this template for the design of the wiki I manage and I wouldn't want to hack something in that might cause more problems than it solves...
Thanks, Stéphane
On 04/02/06, Stéphane Thibault wrote:
Hey guys, here's what I'm trying to do.
I'm setting up a MediaWiki website for a scientific association and instead of relying only on collaborative writing, it's also important that members be allowed to write "signed" articles on a subject that may already exist.
What I'd like to do is include a string in the [[MediaWiki:Nogomatch]] that would allow the user to create the desired article after a failed search, redirecting him to this page:
User:Username/Article
The original article page would then act as a disambiguation page listing all articles written on a particular topic.
It should be simple enough but I just can't find the proper variable to use for the username in my template. I looked at theses pages:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words
but couldn't find what I'm looking for. Any hints? Is there a built in template maybe for "wgUser"? Or maybe even a simpler way to achieve this goal?
I originally posted my question over here if anyone's interested on this topic: http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=999
Thanks, Stéphane