Give a login link to Anoneditwarning and Anonprevieweditwarning
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	• bzimport
	Nov 17 2010, 10:38 AM

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Author: m.niranjan

Description:
Steps:

Log-out of Wikipedia
Go to any article's Edit page (For ex: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_(2010_film)&action=edit )
Click ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:UserLogin ) link from the 1st line of Infobox text ( You are not currently logged in. )
Provide valid user-name and password and click Login
Observe the 'return to' URL in the last line "Return to Main Page" (redirects to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page )

Actual result:
Redirects to Wikipedia's main page

Expected result:
Should redirect to the page the user was previously accessing, i.e., http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jackie_(2010_film)&action=edit

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Severity: normal
OS: Windows XP
Platform: Other

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Reference: bz25973

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		Resolved		Jdforrester-WMF	T27973 Give a login link to Anoneditwarning and Anonprevieweditwarning
		Declined		None	T29264 Create a {{LOGINLINK}} magic word

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 11:24 PM

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• bzimport created this task.Nov 17 2010, 10:38 AM

This is something the Wikipedians did themselves ( [[MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning]] ), so not really a mediawiki issue...

On the other hand, we should maybe include the proper link to the log in page in the default anoneditwarning message (and ditto for [[mediawiki:anonpreviewwarning]]).

The proper link can't be generated with wikitext alone (the &returnto parameter can be, but &returntoquery can't), so I guess we should introduce a {{LOGINLINK}} magic word or something.

See bug #27264

I disagree with wontfix-ing this. I see no reason to not pass a login link to those messages via a $1

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In T27973#314764, @Catrope wrote:

The proper link can't be generated with wikitext alone (the &returnto parameter can be, but &returntoquery can't), so I guess we should introduce a {{LOGINLINK}} magic word or something.

Does that mean this task depends on T29264: Create a {{LOGINLINK}} magic word?

Liuxinyu970226 mentioned this in T29264: Create a {{LOGINLINK}} magic word.Mar 16 2017, 3:03 PM

Aklapper added a subtask: T29264: Create a {{LOGINLINK}} magic word.Apr 20 2017, 4:31 PM

Does that mean this task depends on T29264: Create a {{LOGINLINK}} magic word?

My preferred solution would be to have the loginlink be an argument to the message, similar to how its done in other places in MediaWiki - For example, what is done on OutputPage::showPermissionsErrorPage, around line 2777 of OutputPage.php.

In fact this appears to already be done for anoneditwarning (6d4b92f930d / T208989 ), so only anonpreviewwarning remains. I would suggest people copy the approach from 6d4b92f930d