https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43955
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Bug ID: 43955
Summary: Allow more magic words to take a parameter
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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At the moment, some magic words can take a parameter, yet some cannot. For
example:
1. If I use {{BASEPAGENAME|Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case}} on [[User
talk:AGK]], "Arbitration" will still be returned.
2. However, if I use {{REVISIONDAY|Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case}} on
[[User talk:AGK]], the day of the last edit to my talk page—not to the
arbitration requests page—will be returned.
The other magic words (in particular, the last time a page was edited) should
be able to take a parameter. This bug is a request that this feature be added.
Is this feature not currently present to protect the site's performance? Should
these indeed be expensive functions, we could have low cap on the number of
magic words that can take a parameter on any one page. I suppose I can see that
people might go overboard and make up some silly, long page that lists (on one
user subpage) the last time that their "favourite" pages were edited—perhaps
with <blink> tags and bgcolor:red for added hilarity. However, this feature
would make life for a lot of us process junkies so much easier—and supersede
the need for many of our bots (MediationBot, BAGbot, and so on).
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