In Wikipedia talk pages discussions, I see people often mention each other.Mentioned people receive a notification.How to mention people?  For instance let's say I want to mention the user called Joe.Solutions that work on all Mediawiki sites preferred.
How to mention someone in a Wikipedia/Mediawiki conversation?
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You can use the Wikimedia pipe trick to keep from having to repeat the username:[[User:Username|]]turns into [[User:Username|Username]]Wikipedia1 has some templates that are set up for this. You could just use the User link template{{u|Username}}To be more Twitter-like, there's the ping template (aka Reply to)This template is particularly helpful in discussions that are not threaded, to indicate which user's comment is referenced.{{ping|Username}}results in@[[User:Username|Username]]More information at Wikipedia:Notifications1 English Wikipedia. Other language versions likely have different templates (if they have any). 