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Bug 28111 - namespace/prefix support to special:contributions URL
namespace/prefix support to special:contributions URL
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
unspecified
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Reported: 2011-03-19 02:01 UTC by John Mark Vandenberg
Modified: 2012-04-16 09:16 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description John Mark Vandenberg 2011-03-19 02:01:51 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.
Comment 1 Roan Kattouw 2011-03-20 10:20:04 UTC
Any database query achieving this would be horrendously inefficient.
Comment 2 Krinkle 2011-03-20 17:07:25 UTC
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
Comment 3 Roan Kattouw 2011-03-20 20:04:09 UTC
(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

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