• Bug 23734 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I'm not sure this is desired, because the linkified IPs consistently link to the contributions page, contrary to the usernames, so this would introduce an inconsistency.

Do you mean the user signature? The signature for anonymous users have a link to the contributions page. That is ok. When you follow the link to the contributions page there is no link to the user page.

(In reply to comment #3)

Do you mean the user signature?

No, I mean everywhere. Recent changes, logs of all sorts etc.

The signature for anonymous users have a link
to the contributions page. That is ok. When you follow the link to the
contributions page there is no link to the user page.

Yes, it's consistent, which is good.

The difference is, that the anonymous user name (IP address) is everywhere a link except on the contributions page. The user page and the talk page is consistent between anonymous users and normal users. But the contributions page is not consistent between anonymous users and normal users. The only way to reach the user page of anonymous users is click on the talk page and then on the user page. Then you are an the contributions page of a anonymous user you can not even see that a user page exists. You first have to click to the possible not existing talk page to see that a user page exist.

(In reply to comment #5)

The difference is, that the anonymous user name (IP address) is everywhere a
link except on the contributions page. The user page and the talk page is
consistent between anonymous users and normal users. But the contributions page
is not consistent between anonymous users and normal users. The only way to
reach the user page of anonymous users is click on the talk page and then on
the user page. Then you are an the contributions page of a anonymous user you
can not even see that a user page exists. You first have to click to the
possible not existing talk page to see that a user page exist.

The anonymous user name (IP address) is everywhere a link *to the user's contributions page* and on the contributions page it should be a selflink which should be shown as plain text.

Per liangent, this looks like a WONTFIX. Perhaps another (more general) bug should be filed, asking a solution to make IP user pages more accessible without proposing a specific (inconsistent) solution.

Example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/192.0.2.42 has no link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:192.0.2.42
As workaround https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/192.0.2.42 has a link to https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Benutzer:192.0.2.42&action=edit&redlink=1 in the footer because https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Sp-contributions-footer-anon contains [[Benutzer:{{{1|$1}}}|{{{1|$1}}}]].

It would be nice to have a link to the anonymous user page on the contribution page by default.