gangleri wrote:

See also (about documentation) [[en:User talk:IMSoP#appendix_4]] == [[User
talk:IMSoP#appendix_4]] == [[User_talk:IMSoP#appendix_4]] <> [[User talk:IMSoP#appendix
4]] (the last one misses the anchor).

Regards Reinhardt

rowan.collins wrote:

I can see where you're coming from with this, but generally speaking the
software should make it unnecessary to construct these URLs anyway - the
software should generate them when you click the appropriate part of the syntax.
Of course, anyone writing a bot, or doing something particularly complex with
templates, would benefit from knowing how to generalise, but usually clicking
through a couple of examples should be enough to find out.

As for the specific example of the error produced by a special page that needs a
particular parameter, perhaps the best thing would be a message like "This page
shows the contributions of a particular user, but no user was specified." and
provide a box where the name of the user can be typed in. In fact, it could just
say "Type in the name of the user for whom you wish to see contributions: " and
forget that, as far as the software is concerned, this is an error. As I say,
the user should generally not be required to know the internal URL "syntax",
they should just be given an interface that constructs it for them.

Agreed with Rowan's comments; please file separate bugs for each
special page which doesn't provide a useful prompt when visited
directly but should.