Extension:User Contact Links

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User Contact Links Release status: stable
Implementation	Extended syntax
Description	Create properly formatted links to other wiki user's names/pages
Author(s)	Paul Grinberg
Last version	v0.4.1 (January 27, 2008)
License	No license specified
Download	SVN [?]: checkout-url tree code changes
Example	^^^user name^^^
Hooks used ParserAfterStrip
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Overview

This extension provides the ability to insert properly formatted user names with links to their respective user pages. Probably all wiki contributors have run across the following problem: the article text should make some reference to some other wiki user, but to do so properly ([[:User:username|full name]]) is tedious at best both because of the cumbersome syntax and possibly not knowing the username of a user whose full name is well known. This extention makes this task very easy by providing new wiki syntax to do so. Simply add ^^^user name^^^ and all the tediousness and guesswork is done. Moreover, the user name can be any of the following:

1. wiki username
2. user full name (first space last)
3. last name of the user
4. partial match of any part of user full name

Installation Instructions

Step 1

Download the extension code from SVN and place it in the extensions directory.

Step 2

Add the following text to your LocalSettings.php

require_once( "$IP/extensions/UserContactLinks/UserSignature.php" );

Revisions

• v0.4.1 - January 27, 2008 - Minor bug fix to not report a E_NOTICE error message.
• v0.4 -
• v0.3 - November 8, 2007
  • Incorporate suggestion from Khitrenovich to work with MW version 1.8.3 and prior
  • Made the installation simpler by conditionally creating the getUserIDFromUserText() function depending on whether or not Extension:Todo Tasks is installed
• v0.2 - August 28, 2007 - initial publication on MediaWiki website.