Daniel Friesen wrote:
> What "IS" so evil about actions? Besides the implementation details
> which are just that... something we can make better. In fact something
> we could potentially make work better than SpecialPages would in this
> context.
> Personally, I like tacking on ?action=edit and especially purge.
> Prefixing Special:Edit/ doesn't sound nice to me.
> I know I fixed the issues with things like Special:Movepage not sharing
> the same UI tabs as the rest of the actions.
I tack on purge/edit parameters fairly often as well. The biggest issue with
parameters versus Special pages is that one is easily internally linkable
currently (minus the pl_title restriction) and the other is not. There are
_countless_ uses of <span class="plainlinks">[{{fullurl:foo|action=edit}}
bar]</span> right now which is unacceptably ugly. There needs to be a
cleaner syntax, particularly for edit links, but for most other actions as
well. Personally, I don't really care what syntax is chosen, it just needs
to be consistent.
MZMcBride
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