Would a {{USERNAME}} var work here? If so that could be useful for other things.

slowpoke

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:53:24 -0400, Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org wrote:

So, I'm thinking it would be kind of useful to have two special pages: Special:Myuserpage and Special:Myusertalk.

These would just redirect to the current user's User: page and User talk: page, respectively. If the user isn't logged in, they'd go to the IP address User: and User talk: pages, respectively; optionally, they could go to an error page.

Why would this be valuable? Well, it would help if one were trying to serve the same HTML to all users so that caching is more effective. Right now, each page served to each logged-in user has different navigational stuff based on their user name. With a Special:Myuserpage link, we could change:

    <a href="whatever/User:Evan">My page</a>

to...

    <a href="whatever/Special:Myuserpage">My page</a>

Anyways, barring objections, I'm going to implement this Special: page and see how it works.

~ESP

-- Evan Prodromou evan@wikitravel.org Wikitravel (http://wikitravel.org/)

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