Hi William,

what changes did you make in these files? I'm still looking for a way to 
show the real names in my PDFs.

Regards
Stefan

Am Freitag, 14. Juni 2013 23:38:09 UTC+2 schrieb William Tucker:
>
> Update: 
>
> I modified the MediaWiki software to add the real name in the result for 
> revisions queries to the API in ApiQueryRevisions.php. 
>
> I then modified my copy of MWLib authors.py to use the real name and fall 
> back to the username if the real name is blank. This results in the proper 
> attribution I was seeking. 
>
> William 
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: William Tucker 
> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:21 PM 
> To: [email protected] <javascript:> 
> Subject: Real names of contributors 
>
> In my version of MediaWiki, there is a user preference option labeled 
> "Real 
> name" which says " Real name is optional. If you choose to provide it, 
> this 
> will be used for giving you attribution for your work." 
>
> I would like to have this real name value appear in all attributions 
> generated from MWLIB for image and article contributors instead of the 
> MediaWiki username. 
>
> I am aware of the http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Realnames 
> extension; but, I suspect that this will not change what is displayed in 
> the 
> contributors lists of MWLib output. Am I wrong about that? 
>
> Short of forcing all users of my wiki to use their real name as their 
> username for proper attribution, can I get MWLib to use the real name 
> property if set and fall back on the username if not? 
>
> Thanks, 
> William 
>
>

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