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Bug 29513 - New 'magic word' {{CURRENTUSER}}

Summary:	New 'magic word' {{CURRENTUSER}}

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 4196 Product: MediaWiki Classification: Unclassified Component: Parser (Other open bugs) Version: unspecified Hardware: All All Importance: Unprioritized enhancement with 1 vote (vote) Target Milestone: --- Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this! URL: Whiteboard: Keywords: Depends on: Blocks:   Show dependency tree / graph		Reported: 2011-06-21 15:28 UTC by Monomium Modified: 2011-06-21 15:36 UTC (History) CC List: 0 users See Also: Web browser: --- Mobile Platform: --- Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Monomium 2011-06-21 15:28:34 UTC This really needed for a lot of the template/link hacks we have. It's probably been proposed before, but a small function that reports the username of the current user would be helpful. Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2011-06-21 15:36:01 UTC *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 4196 ***