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MediaWiki alter default user signature

I've tried finding some info on this (found none), so trying the sages of SO before giving up.

I'm modifying Extension:AuthRemoteuser for a local SSO solution.

It would be a nice touch to change the default signature to a string other than the user name (which is an integer string at the moment for us), e g. Real Name.

Hoping someone knows the function call to set signature so that I'd be able to do something akin to:

$mySwellSignature = "Foobar";
$usr->setSignature($mySwellSignature); //This is what I'm looking for ;_;
Solution

  • You can customise the [[MediaWiki:Signature]] page on your wiki (see system message documentation) to alter how ~~~~ and ~~~ are parsed.

    If you want to pass additional parameters, like real name, you can do so by altering the line(s) in the parser where this message is used; or by introducing a parser function which you can then use on [[MediaWiki:Signature]] like e.g. UserFunctions (only an example; I'm not recommending this extension).