--- Parser.php.orig	2007-11-09 16:40:16.000000000 -0500
+++ Parser.php	2007-11-13 13:49:06.000000000 -0500
@@ -3871,7 +3871,18 @@
 
 		# If we're still here, make it a link to the user page
 		$userpage = $user->getUserPage();
-		return( '[[' . $userpage->getPrefixedText() . '|' . wfEscapeWikiText( $nickname ) . ']]' );
+
+                if ( $user->isAnon() )  {
+ 			$title = SpecialPage::getTitleFor('Contributions' );
+                        return ( wfMsg( 'signature-ip', 
+                                        $title->getPrefixedText() . '/' . wfEscapeWikiText( $username ), 
+                                        wfEscapeWikiText( $nickname ), 
+                                        $userpage->getTalkPage(), wfMsg('talk') ) );
+		} else {
+                        return ( wfMsg( 'signature', $userpage->getPrefixedText(), 
+                                wfEscapeWikiText( $nickname ), 
+                                $userpage->getTalkPage(), wfMsg('talk') ) );
+               }
 	}
 
 	/**