Board Thread:Lua Help/@comment-6475116-20150622141420/@comment-24473195-20150623092232

Cqm wrote: Lua does concatenation with  not. Your trick would work if  was a template on a wiki, and expanded to something JavaScript could interact with, but there's no way to access and manipulate someone's username in Lua, ParserFunctions or Wikitext. That's a good point, I think that the only way is for the OP to use something like a strip marker that will automatically be replaced by javascript. But then again it probably defeats the purpose of the OP. I read that mediawiki developers were planning to add general stats about users to lua though, so it will eventually be possible to get information that is cached, but not real time information like username.