Site-wide usernames for namespace pages

[bandali0]

I've noticed that pages in a namespace use username local to that namespace. It would be nice to have the option to link to site-wide (top-level) username pages instead.

[kensanata]

How about this...

Put the code below into your config file. It’s a copy of the GetAuthorLink code with the following changes:

1. where we match $InterSitePattern it removes the Namespace prefix (if any)
2. it assumes that you want to link usernames (ignoring $RecentLink) and locally sets $ScriptName to the root namespace

sub GetAuthorLink {
  my ($username, $host) = @_;
  $username = FreeToNormal($username);
  $username =~ s/^(?:$InterSitePattern:)?$FreeLinkPattern/$1/;
  my $name = NormalToFree($username);
  if (ValidId($username) ne '') { # ValidId() returns error string
    $username = '';     # Just pretend it isn't there.
  }
  if ($username) {
    local $ScriptName = $NamespacesRoot;
    return ScriptLink(UrlEncode($username), $name, 'author');
  }
  return T('Anonymous') if $host eq 'Anonymous';
  return ColorCode($host);
}

I've added it to the end of Comments on Namespaces Extension.

This is somewhat tested: looking at Recent Changes of the main namespace, looking at Recent Changes of another namespace, looking at the footer of a page in another namespace.

[bandali0]

Sorry for the slow reply. Just got around to trying this, and works great as expected, many thanks!