Extension:ShowRealUsernames

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.

Upgrading
To upgrade, simply install the new version at the place of the old one.

From versions before 1.2
Your existing configuration works as before, but you might like to take advantage of the 1>Special:MyLanguage/Extension:ShowRealUsernames/History#Version 1.2|new features.

Configuration
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

in your  .

The fields retrieved from the database by the ShowRealUsernames extension are configured in, which currently defaults to. You can customize this in your.

The system messages  and   are provided to format the name. Parameters ($1, $2, &hellip;) are replaced by the fields defined in  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 :

Usage
This extension operates automatically whenever the Special:ListUsers page is displayed.

Release notes
These are the release notes for version 1.4.0.

See  for older releases.

Configuration changes
The extension is now loaded using the   mechanism introduced in MediaWiki 1.25.

It is therefore incompatible with older MediaWiki versions.

Bugfixes
Removed closing ?></> at end of files.