If you enter [[Special:Emailuser]] without specifying the target user, you get the following error message:
"You have not specified a target page or user on which to perform this function."
It'd be great to have an input mask instead, where you can just enter the user name and get the page Special:Emailuser/username (or Special:Emailuser?target=username).
I think, this is also how it's done in Special:Contributions
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
Created attachment 4891
Patch against head, implements a "specify user" form
This patch will implement a "Specify user" form if there is no target user.
attachment diff.patch ignored as obsolete
Comment on attachment 4891
Patch against head, implements a "specify user" form
Bad patch against current trunk with EmailUser refactor. Looking at rewriting this patch again and better implementing it.
Bryan.TongMinh wrote:
I suggest that we just make the "To" field an input box and show the full form when errors occur.
Bumping with comments from the revert:
bug 13349 comment 3 means that Emailuser shouldn't bve listed there until it gets an input form, which is quite different than "it can't have an input form".
Special:MovePage can also have a input form, but he does not, because the page is "task-oriented, to be reached directly from their tasks", the same for Emailuser. The task "send email" is started when click the link on the userpage.
In the meantime, I changed my mind and now I agree with Umherirrender. There are lots of special pages that require parameters and don't have an input form. If they're unlisted (i.e. not in Special:Specialpages), that's okay.
(In reply to comment #13)
In the meantime, I changed my mind and now I agree with Umherirrender. There
are lots of special pages that require parameters and don't have an input form.
If they're unlisted (i.e. not in Special:Specialpages), that's okay.
This seems like a reason to fix the other forms, not keep them as they are.
And why should a page like Special:RevisionDelete have a form? They have an input form, it's just not on the special page itself, but somewhere it belongs (in case of RevisionDelete, it's in the page history and diffs).
(In reply to comment #14)
(In reply to comment #13)
In the meantime, I changed my mind and now I agree with Umherirrender. There
are lots of special pages that require parameters and don't have an input form.
If they're unlisted (i.e. not in Special:Specialpages), that's okay.This seems like a reason to fix the other forms, not keep them as they are.
+1. REOPENING.