Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-35860218-20200808181545/@comment-9605025-20200809174511

Nice! I had no idea you could use "User" as the username. Too bad it doesn't work with specifying the namespace.

To expand on why inputusername doesn't work, it is because that is done using custom JS. Custom JS is run at the time the page is loaded by the viewer after the MediaWiki core has already rendered most of the page. The transclusion of the edit count is done during the page rendering before the JS runs. Therefore, the information inserted by the custom JS is not available to the page at the time it tries to retrieve the edit count.