Author: webmaster

Description:
BACKGROUND:

The Marvel Database is a wiki about comics and a feature we would be interested in would be a link which adds comics to a users 'wishlist' or 'collection'.

I envisioned implementing this in ootb mediawiki by having a link to a sub-page of the user page which would store their wishlist.

http://en.marveldatabase.com/User:Jamie/Wishlist

This page can successfully be reached by instead typing in the URL:

http://en.marveldatabase.com/Special:Mypage/Wishlist

This gives the dynamic nature of the link, so the link is on the comic and responds accordingly, no matter which user hits the link. (Jamie, Rob, or Brion. ;)

To account for PEBKAC, I would like to have that link preload a template, display an edit intro message and be loaded as a 'new section'. This leaves little room for user error as the work is all done for them, they just have to hit 'save'.

I can pretty much accomplish what I have outlined above, using the following URL:

DESIRED EFFECT:

http://en.marveldatabase.com/?title=User:Jamie/test&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Gallery%20Template&editintro=MediaWiki:AddCharacterMessage

THE BUG:

http://en.marveldatabase.com/?title=Special:Mypage/test&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Gallery%20Template&editintro=MediaWiki:AddCharacterMessage

Replacing title=User:Jamie/test with title=Special:Mypage/test kills all the parameters that follow it.

SUMMARY:

Including title=Special:Mypage or title=Special:Mytalk should allow all the same paramters as if the URL were explicitly defined.

Version: 1.13.x
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://en.marveldatabase.com/?title=Special:Mypage/test&action=edit&section=new&preload=Template:Gallery%20Template&editintro=MediaWiki:AddCharacterMessage