Last modified: 2012-05-27 22:04:09 UTC
Seen on Meta and En.wb following 1.19 upgrade. Keying Special:Contributions/newbies (as linked to from mediawiki:recetnchangestext) now goes to a list of contributions for a user called Newbies as opposed to a list of edits by new accounts.
This was deliberate. The url parameter &contribs=newbie is used to get newbie contribs.
(In reply to comment #1) > This was deliberate. The url parameter &contribs=newbie is used to get newbie > contribs. >>We'll just change all the interface links then... that'll be fun!
Some sort of consideration should be made for the expected behavior of URLs before changing them.
Committed in r100315. I agree we should probably rework this for this deployment.
Changed on site in r112366 .
Thanks Aaron! Since this is still going away in 1.20, we'll have to make sure we communicate that well. Let's consult with Guillaume to make sure we get the word out correctly.
Re-opening this bug for now. Someone needs to do an assessment of how many links this will break on the live Wikimedia wikis, throughout MediaWiki (if "Special:Contributions/newbies") is used in any default messages, and on other MediaWiki installations. "You break it, you fix it" seems like reasonable policy here, I think. Once an assessment is done, some kind of concerted effort is needed to fix those links before 1.20 is pushed out. Once that happens, feel free to mark this bug as fixed (again).
Lost track of this one. We need to patch 1.20wmf1 with r112366 before deploying to enwiki.
I agree with MZMcBride. I think it's better to undo this change in the software.
Aaron ported this to master: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#change,6365 ...and to 1.20wmf2: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#change,6413 So, barring a deliberate action to undo this, it should be safely ensconced in the code for a while. Note that these URLs do different things: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/newbies ...and: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Newbies The former gives you all contributions by new users, and the latter is contributions by User:Newbies.
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