diff --git a/resources/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.UserInfo.js b/resources/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.UserInfo.js
index b64d7b429..96fe0501e 100644
--- a/resources/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.UserInfo.js
+++ b/resources/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.UserInfo.js
@@ -68,6 +68,8 @@
 		if ( repoInfo.apiUrl ) {
 			ajaxOptions.url = repoInfo.apiUrl;
 			ajaxOptions.dataType = 'jsonp';
+			ajaxOptions.cache = true; // do not append `_=<timestamp>` to the URL
+			ajaxOptions.jsonpCallback = this.getCallbackName( username  );
 			cacheKey = cacheKey + '|' + repoInfo.apiUrl; // local and remote user names could conflict
 		}
 
@@ -90,5 +92,23 @@
 		} );
 	};
 
+	/**,
+	 * Generate JSONP callback function name.
+	 * jQuery uses a random string by default, which would break caching.
+	 * On the other hand the callback needs to be unique to avoid surprises when multiple
+	 * requests run in parallel. And of course needs to be a valid JS variable name.
+	 * @param username
+	 */
+	UserInfo.prototype.getCallbackName = function ( username ) {
+		// Javascript variable name charset rules are fairly lax but better safe then sorry,
+		// so let's encode every non-alphanumeric character.
+		// Per http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1809153/maximum-length-of-variable-name-in-javascript
+		// length should not be an issue (might add a few hundred bytes to the request & response size
+		// for very long usernames, but we can live with that).
+		return 'mmv_userinfo_' + mw.util.rawurlencode( username )// encodes all characters except -.~_
+			.replace( /-/g, '%2D' ).replace( /\./g, '%2E' ).replace( /~/g, '%7E' ).replace( /_/g, '%5F' )
+			.replace( /%/g, '_' );
+	};
+
 	mw.mmv.provider.UserInfo = UserInfo;
 }( mediaWiki, jQuery, OO ) );
diff --git a/tests/qunit/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.UserInfo.test.js b/tests/qunit/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.UserInfo.test.js
index 0933bb901..abcb4c36c 100644
--- a/tests/qunit/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.UserInfo.test.js
+++ b/tests/qunit/mmv/provider/mmv.provider.UserInfo.test.js
@@ -163,4 +163,26 @@
 			QUnit.start();
 		} );
 	} );
+
+	QUnit.test( 'getCallbackName()', 6, function ( assert ) {
+		var userInfoProvider = new mw.mmv.provider.UserInfo( {} );
+
+		function assertValidVariableName( username ) {
+			/*jshint evil:true */
+			var varName = userInfoProvider.getCallbackName( username );
+			try {
+				eval( 'var ' + varName + ';');
+				assert.ok( true, 'Variable name ' + varName + ' generated from ' + username + ' is valid' );
+			} catch ( e ) {
+				assert.ok( false, 'Variable name ' + varName + ' generated from ' + username + ' is invalid' );
+			}
+		}
+
+		assertValidVariableName( 'simple' );
+		assertValidVariableName( 'Help! I have spaces!' );
+		assertValidVariableName( 'oh_noes_i_has_underline' );
+		assertValidVariableName( '$\'"+!%/=()[]{}:;<>,.?|' );
+		assertValidVariableName( 'ｲﾁｶﾜ ｴﾂﾔ' );
+		assertValidVariableName( new Array( 256 ).join( 'ｲ' ) ); // longest possible name, 255*2 bytes
+	} );
 }( mediaWiki, jQuery ) );