User:Mike Dillon/Scripts/username.js

/*

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/**
* Gets the name of the user associated with the current page. This works for user pages, user talk pages,
* subpages of user and user talk pages, and the Special:Contributions page.
*
* If you want the name of the user who is viewing the page, use the wgUserName variable.
*
* If the current page is not associated with a user, then a null value is returned.
*
* NOTE: This function relies on page naming conventions and will return a user name for appropriately
* titled pages regardless of whether the user in question actually exists.
*/
function getUsernameForCurrentPage() {
try {
if (wgCanonicalSpecialPageName == "Contributions") {
// Find the form containing the element with the id "namespace"
var form = document.getElementById("namespace").form;
// Extract the username from the "target" field of the form
return form.target.value.replace("_", " ");
} else if (wgNamespaceNumber == 2 || wgNamespaceNumber == 3) {
return wgTitle.split('/')[0];
}
} catch (e) {
// Fall through
}
return null;
}
/* 

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