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Swapping username for real name?

April 26, 2017swapping username

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Swapping username for real name?

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• MediaWiki 1.14 • PHP 5.2.8 • MySQL 5.0.51a How can I go about swapping Username for Real Name when displaying pages? We’re using LDAP to log in to mediawiki but our LDAP id’s are in the form of unintuitive numbers (i.e. 123456), is there a way to show a users Real Name (if they’ve filled it in in preferences) instead of their Username for edits etc. So when a page is edited it would show John Smith next to the edit rather than 123456, the username actually used to log in doesn’t need to change so I’m not after making any backend changes, only displaying the Real Name in place of the Username. –62.172.72.