Hey am newbie in the mediawiki!
Could any one help me how to make Real Names as display names in the wiki.
As of now it was displaying the user names as display, due to security reasons I want to make realnames to display?
Any clue will be more helpful!
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Hi!
I think it would be possible to display the real name instead of the username at some places, but not at all of them. E.g. for the menu at the top right corner of the page, you could use a hook and change the link text. But for RecentChanges already I don't know how one could suppress the names (without changing MediaWiki Core files [which is bad]). And then there still are Contribution pages and the API, which also provide information about usernames.
It all boils down to: If someone really wants to know usernames, he will get them.
Why do you think showing usernames would be a security problem?
Also note that displaying real names in RecentChanges, page histories and logs can cause confusion when different users have the same real name (if they're able to change it)