Extension talk:User homepages

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Any user names refer to users of that site, who are not necessarily users of MediaWiki.org (even if they share the same username).

Hi

It was cool, but:

1. If my name is «Eloy» and someone registers the username «Eloy Homepage», we got a problem. Possible solution: «User:{{USERNAME}}/Homepage».
2. If I'm an anonimous user, it will go to «User:200.122.55.80/Homepage» :S.

User:Eloy/Firma 18:50, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Nice work, but...

As Eloy correctly states, if a user is not logged in, he will go to user:ip number, and not the main page. This is close to rendering the extension useless, as I can't expect new visitors to understand what is going on, if they just come to a blank page on their first visit to the wiki. If you can find a way to direct new (anonymous) users to the frontpage, and logged in users to their userpage, it will be quite useful :-) --MortenB 16:38, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Redundant?

Wouldn't Special:Mypage achieve the same thing? Don't know how to solve the anon problem though. I actually think this could be very useful beyond the uses described here... 128.250.37.103 07:29, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Conditional?

I've installed the ParserFunctions into my MW1.6.8 in the hope that something like this:

MediaWiki:Mainpage
{{ifexist:special:mypage|special:mypage|Main Page}}

would work.. but it just ends up on --error:_link_target_missing--. Same even if I change special:mypage to something else that definately does exist. Any ideas?... I would really like to get this functionallity working..

You need to write {{#ifexist:...

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