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First tab for Special:Prefixindex links to wrong target
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It has become a sort of standard that the first tab links to the current subject, and for special pages this should be the page with options as currently set. Some special pages don't follow this pattern, and especially Special:Prefixindex is weird. In this case the tab links to the current page being investigated. For example, go to w:no:Spesial:Lenker_hit/Mal:Søster (its the same as Special:Prefixindex/Template:Søster) and the first tab goes to the template itself. This breaks the user expectation and makes navigation harder than necessary.

I have not investigated the reason for this behavior, it could be that the reason is some underlaying default behavior that is counterintuitive.

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jeblad created this task.Jun 24 2017, 11:56 AM
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Aklapper added projects: Accessibility, MediaWiki-Special-pages.Jun 24 2017, 12:39 PM
Florian subscribed.Jul 13 2017, 6:39 PM

Ok, from what I can see:
Special:PrefixIndex/Pagetitle
The "Special Page" tab correctly links to the Special page (including the name of the page being investigated). Or do I misunderstand you here? What is your expected behaviour?

Special:WhatLinksHere
The first tab (which, btw., is labled with the page name of the page which is investigated) links to the page which is currently being investiagted. However, this also looks correct for me. Special:WhatLinksHere is normally accessed with the link in the toolbox of a page, and therefore, the context in this case is the page investigated. It's reasonable, that the first tab then links back to the actual page instead of the special page.

Florian moved this task from To triage to SpecialPage system on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Jul 13 2017, 6:39 PM
Izno moved this task from SpecialPage system to Special:PrefixIndex / Special:AllPages on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Aug 2 2017, 12:41 PM
jeblad added a comment.Mar 8 2019, 12:49 AM

The target for the first tab is sometimes the special page with whatever arguments to recreate the page as it is in the current context, and sometimes it is just the pagetitle of the investigation.

  • Special:PrefixIndex/Pagetitle uses the pagetitle
  • Special:WhatLinksHere/Pagetitle uses the pagetitle
  • Special:RecentChanges reconstructs a full context

The first tab should be a full context, not just the pagetitle.

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Krinkle edited projects, added MediaWiki-Search; removed MediaWiki-Special-pages.Oct 13 2021, 7:10 PM
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CBogen moved this task from needs triage to search-icebox on the Discovery-Search board.Oct 18 2021, 3:22 PM
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