Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:35:43 UTC
As a useful enhancement to the available magic words, can we have {{PAGECREATOR}} to deliver the username who first edited the page. Even if it had some quirks like the page creator's version having been revdeled it would be useful, and 99% of the time, correct. Thank you. My76Strat
This probably can't happen until bug 42135 is fixed.
(In reply to comment #1) > This probably can't happen until bug 42135 is fixed. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=revisions&titles=Bryan%20Loren&rvprop=timestamp%7Cuser%7Ccomment&rvdir=newer&rvlimit=1&format=jsonfm appears to deliver the correct result, but devising a template to deliver the result is too challenging for me.
Yeah. The other big is more aboit people wanting to do stats on the page creator. Just to create a new magic word probably doesnt need any db change.
I'm surprised this bug isn't a duplicate. I searched and found a number of bugs requesting similar features (such as a magic word for the latest editor or a magic word for the currently logged in user), but I wasn't able to find any pre-existing bugs about a magic word for the page creator. (In reply to comment #0) > As a useful enhancement to the available magic words, can we have > {{PAGECREATOR}} to deliver the username who first edited the page. Useful how? Can you describe how you might use this magic word?
(In reply to comment #4) > I'm surprised this bug isn't a duplicate. I searched and found a number of > bugs > requesting similar features (such as a magic word for the latest editor or a > magic word for the currently logged in user), but I wasn't able to find any > pre-existing bugs about a magic word for the page creator. > > (In reply to comment #0) > > As a useful enhancement to the available magic words, can we have > > {{PAGECREATOR}} to deliver the username who first edited the page. > > Useful how? Can you describe how you might use this magic word? I have a boiler tag I want to placing atop "admin container categories" which I wanted to include a final bullet statement: * This category was created by {{#if:{{{newcat|}}}|~~<noinclude></noinclude>~ on ~~<noinclude>~</noinclude>~~.|{{<includeonly>subst:</includeonly>PAGECREATOR}}.}} Also the {{db}} template series which says at the bottom: Please consider placing the template: {{subst:db-reason-notice|Template:Db|header=1|no reason given}} ~~~~ on the talk page of the author. which requires the additional step of determining who authored the page would more efficiently read better as: Please consider placing the template: {{subst:db-reason-notice|Template:Db|header=1|no reason given}} ~~~~ on the talk page of {{{PAGECREATOR}}}. In my opinion. Other usefulness exists.
