Apparently in gitiles it seems to only generate the ssh url without the users username.

Filled upstream at https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=8576

I believe the reason this appears to not affect everyone, is that:

1. If you have the same Git shell username on your local command-line, then this "just works".

2. If you have shell access to Toolforge, WMCS, or WMF production; then you tend to have SSH configuration set, which naturally makes this work.

For example (sshconfig file):

Host gerrit.wikimedia.org
    Port 29418
    User krinkle

Another trick I use is (gitconfig file):

[url "ssh://gerrit.wikimedia.org:29418/"]
	insteadOf = https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/

It would be nice to have a copy-pastable personalised zero-configuration snippet. This is only being discussed in this, though, because Gerrit/Gitiles could potentially present that in a dynamic way. However, in all other places where we write tutorials or document developer instructions we'd generally not have that option. As such, it might make sense to solve this in the above way rather than through a personalised shell command. Especially because we'd still run into this issue through e.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Gerrit/Tutorial/tl;dr and other such guides.

I recognise that Git is used much more widely, but for those that use Git over SSH (as opposed to HTTPS), this might be a more scalable option.