Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-38557027-20190703213903/@comment-168424-20190704013741

If it doesn't work, how do you know it?

Anyway, the correct way to link to the user page of the user who is viewing a page in wikitext is Special:MyPage. The $1 thing only works usually for username display, not links and only works in some MediaWiki: pages.