Extension:ShowRealUsernames
 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | Special page |
| Description | Extends Special:ListUsers to also show each user's real name and/or other user-specific information. |
| Author(s) | Paul Lustgarten and RV1971 |
| Latest version | 1.4.0 (2018-04-17) |
| MediaWiki | 1.30+ |
| PHP | 5.4+ |
| License | GNU General Public License 3.0 or later |
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| Quarterly downloads | 8 (Ranked 166th) |
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The ShowRealUsernames extension extends the user listings produced by Special:ListUsers to include the registered real name of each user, displayed immediately following the wiki user name, and/or other user-specific information.
InstallationEdit
- Download and place the file(s) in a directory called
ShowRealUsernamesin yourextensions/folder. - Add the following code at the bottom of your
LocalSettings.php:wfLoadExtension( 'ShowRealUsernames' );
Done – Navigate to Special:Version on your wiki to verify that the extension is successfully installed.
UpgradingEdit
To upgrade, simply install the new version at the place of the old one.
From versions before 1.2Edit
Your existing configuration works as before, but you might like to take advantage of the new features.
ConfigurationEdit
By default, the user's real name is appended to the wiki name in Special:ListUsers. You can replace the wiki name with the real name by setting
$wgShowRealUsernamesInline = true;
in your LocalSettings.php.
The fields retrieved from the database by the ShowRealUsernames extension are configured in $wgShowRealUsernamesFields, which currently defaults to 'user_real_name', 'user_name', 'user_email'.
You can customize this in your LocalSettings.php.
The system messages sru-realname-inline and sru-realname-append are provided to format the name.
Parameters ($1, $2, …) are replaced by the fields defined in $wgShowRealUsernamesFields in the order of definition.
Only users having the showrealname right do see the real names.
By default, this right is granted to all registered users.
To restrict it to a group add something like the following lines to your LocalSettings.php:
$wgGroupPermissions['user']['showrealname'] = false;
$wgGroupPermissions['bureaucrat']['showrealname'] = true;
UsageEdit
This extension operates automatically whenever the Special:ListUsers page is displayed.
Release notesEdit
These are the release notes for version 1.4.0. See Extension:ShowRealUsernames/History for older releases.
Configuration changesEdit
The extension is now loaded using the wfLoadExtension() mechanism introduced in MediaWiki 1.25.
It is therefore incompatible with older MediaWiki versions.
BugfixesEdit
Removed closing ?> at end of files.