https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72130
--- Comment #4 from Quiddity <[email protected]> --- It works the same way for All the logs. There should be a message explaining that, above the text-fields. eg. at [[Special:Log]]... Oh, I see the message at [[mw:Special:Log]] is totally unclear, so I guess the default (and therefor widely translated) message doesn't explain it. Gah! But it needs to work for both mainspace pages and elsewhere e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&hide_thanks_log=0&page=user%3AJohn https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&hide_thanks_log=0&page=John [rewrite #4, edit-conflict #3...] Ah, I now see the difference, when we use the drop-down selector for just the "Thanks log". This is all related to bug 46494, which was originally about clarifying the confusing documentation message, but was closed following a pointer to the code that makes *user-specific-logs* automatically-add the "user:" prefix. Eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=thanks&user=&page=John will automatically add "user:" prefix, as will core's "block", "newusers", and "rights" logs, and possibly other extension logs using the code-hook. Given that the code is trying to be helpful, and going back to the old way would be equally confusing, I'd suggest that just updating the default interface messages, would be best. I.e. Put the clearer explanation from Enwiki's [[MediaWiki:Alllogstext]] as the default. Possibly altering [[MediaWiki:Log-description-thanks]] would also help? (Sidenote: I've asked, and to change default English messages, we have to file a bug here. English root messages don't get rewritten at translatewiki.) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
