Thread:Project:Support desk/How to Display Realnames rather than Usernames in mediawiki ?/reply

Hi!

I think it would be possible to display the real name instead of the username at some places, but not at all of them. E.g. for the menu at the top right corner of the page, you could use a hook and change the link text. But for RecentChanges already I don't know how one could suppress the names (without changing MediaWiki Core files [which is bad]). And then there still are Contribution pages and the API, which also provide information about usernames.

It all boils down to: If someone really wants to know usernames, he will get them.

Why do you think showing usernames would be a security problem?