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.

If you want one, you'll need to hack the parser to add it.

Rob Church

On 04/02/06, Stéphane Thibault thibault.stephane@gmail.com 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

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