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Bug 18312 - Preferences Form allows links inside <label> attributes
Preferences Form allows links inside <label> attributes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 15130
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
Interface (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:...
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Depends on:
Blocks:
  Show dependency tree / graph
 
Reported: 2009-04-02 18:13 UTC by Dan Jacobson
Modified: 2009-04-02 18:58 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Assignee Huggle Beta Tester: ---

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Description Dan Jacobson 2009-04-02 18:13:22 UTC 
Get a load of this.

On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Preferences scroll down to
User interface gadgets

See e.g., the sentence
  Allow /16 and /24 – /32 CIDR ranges on Special:Contributions forms
 (uses API), as well as wildcard prefix searches, e.g., "Splark*".

OK, now say to yourself `hmmm, what's that all about? I'll just click
the link to "CIDR" they provided...'

And lo and behold, by clicking that link, the checkbox at the left is
also clicked, behind your back!!
Comment 1 Splarka 2009-04-02 18:27:02 UTC 
A few things:

1. This is a consequence of putting a link in a <label> attribute, and should be handled better yes, but this is a dupe of bug 15130 

2. This has nothing to do with "Wikimedia" or "Site Requests", the bug is in allowing links in the <label> attributes. Possibly this could be considered a bug in the Gadgets extension specifically, but really it is in mediawiki in general (there are many places in the core code this can happen, especially in preferences or on edit pages). This specific case could also be fixed on the English Wikipedia by having the description changed.

3. Your success rate with getting your bugs resolved positively (rather than WONTFIX/DUPLICATE/INVALID) is about 33%. I highly suggest you spend more time searching existing bugs and/or communicating with the developers rather than using bugzilla as a gripe list. This specific bug reads like a bad blog entry guestbook. [This comment is my own opinion but I am probably not alone in this.]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 15130 ***
Comment 2 Mike.lifeguard 2009-04-02 18:35:16 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> 3. Your success rate with getting your bugs resolved positively (rather than
> WONTFIX/DUPLICATE/INVALID) is about 33%. I highly suggest you spend more time
> searching existing bugs and/or communicating with the developers rather than
> using bugzilla as a gripe list. This specific bug reads like a bad blog entry
> guestbook. [This comment is my own opinion but I am probably not alone in
> this.]
> 

In this, Splarka, you are alone only in your politeness. Be thankful I didn't make a comment along the same lines - it wouldn't have been pretty.
Comment 3 Dan Jacobson 2009-04-02 18:58:47 UTC 
Yes, I see your responses.
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