Publish script?
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Fragment of a discussion from Translating talk:MediaWiki/Credits
There isn't any script. Of course, if someone creates it, all the better. (IMHO it should be MediaWiki's devs' responsibility but it seems they think it's ours.)
This does the trick:
grep -h '@author' * | sed 's/ \* @author //' | sort -b |uniq |sed 's/^.*/* [[User:&|&]]/'
2271 authors at the moment. If there are entries that are similar, they should most likely be fixed by hand.