Last modified: 2012-04-16 09:16:15 UTC
I often want to quickly view a users contributions in a specific namespace. I can do this by entering special:contributions/<username>?namespace=<num> I would like to be able to do special:contributions/<username>/<namespace> or to match the prefixindex usage special:contributions/<username>/<namespace>: It would also be useful to be able to specify a different prefix, especially for wikis which have subpages enabled in the main namespace special:contributions/<username>/[<namespace>:]prefix which would return only contributions to pages with that prefix.
Any database query achieving this would be horrendously inefficient.
It also breaks the convention of the "slash" value being passed to 1 primary argument. (ie. "User/Namespace" would not passed entirely to &target= but split' over two arguments). We dont want "CR params suck" all over again. If namespace/prefix would be added, imho it should be a simple parameter: eg. ..Special:Contributions&target=John&namespace=4&prefix=Foo
(In reply to comment #2) > It also breaks the convention of the "slash" value being passed to 1 primary > argument. (ie. "User/Namespace" would not passed entirely to &target= but > split' over two arguments). > > We dont want "CR params suck" all over again. > > If namespace/prefix would be added, imho it should be a simple parameter: > > eg. ..Special:Contributions&target=John&namespace=4&prefix=Foo A good format for this, which is used in Special:PrefixIndex , is /namespace:prefix