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Special:Contributions&target= fails on mobile
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In desktop, this works: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=PrimeHunter
Clicking "Mobile view" with advanced mobile contributions disabled gives https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=PrimeHunter
&target=PrimeHunter is ignored. It produces the same error message as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions :

"Bad username given
Cannot look for contributions without a user or with a user that does not exist."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/PrimeHunter works.
I don't know whether any default MediaWiki features generate url's with Special:Contributions&target=
I got the url from a gadget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation_popups
The url form is documented without mentioning mobile at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:User_contributions#URLs_and_links

An enwiki search of "Special:Contributions&target=" currently gives 26,466 results:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=insource%3A"Special%3AContributions%26target%3D"&title=Special:Search&profile=all&fulltext=1

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SubjectRepoBranchLines +/-
MobileFrontend: Respect &target query parametermediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontendmaster+47 -39
Remove the SpecialMobile(Watchlist|History|Contributions) page and use the core versionsmediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontendmaster+103 -1 K
Customize query in gerrit

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PrimeHunter created this task.Jul 12 2018, 11:37 AM
Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJul 12 2018, 11:37 AM
Jdlrobson added a parent task: T122305: [EPIC] Make Special:Contributions in core mobile friendly.Jul 12 2018, 2:53 PM
Jdlrobson added a project: Web-Team-Backlog (Tracking).
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Known issue. The mobile substitution was only meant to be temporary. A big overhaul of the special page in core is needed (see T122305) but that's a big time investment (which might happen this year). We are not planning to invest any more time in this alternate version of the page.

T186760 is also planned as a way to disable this substitution as a short term measure.

Liuxinyu970226 moved this task from To triage to Special:Contributions / Special:DeletedContributions on the MediaWiki-Special-pages board.Sep 2 2018, 9:37 AM
Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to MobileFrontend Special Pages on the MobileFrontend board.Oct 18 2018, 6:58 PM
Jdlrobson edited projects, added MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend Special Pages); removed MobileFrontend.
Jdlrobson moved this task from Backlog to Contributions on the MobileFrontend (MobileFrontend Special Pages) board.Jan 3 2019, 7:13 PM
gerritbot added a comment.Mar 28 2019, 6:56 PM

Change 499864 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; owner: Jdlrobson):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] Remove the SpecialMobile(History|Contributions) page and use the core versions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/499864

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 28 2019, 6:56 PM
Ammarpad merged a task: T219745: Checking contributions on mobile and shows error when usernames containing Japanese chracters.Apr 1 2019, 7:34 AM
Ammarpad added subscribers: Wang_Qiliang, Ammarpad, Bawolff.
gerritbot added a comment.Apr 4 2019, 11:37 PM

Change 499864 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
Remove the SpecialMobile(Watchlist|History|Contributions) page and use the core versions

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/499864

Kizule merged a task: T264486: Special:Contributions on mobile shows error instead of textbox.Oct 3 2020, 1:27 AM
Kizule subscribed.
Maintenance_bot removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 3 2020, 2:10 AM
Ammarpad added a comment.Oct 3 2020, 8:49 AM

I have an idea for simple fix to this, since the big switch is clearly not happening anytime soon.

gerritbot added a comment.Oct 3 2020, 4:31 PM

Change 631932 had a related patch set uploaded (by Ammarpad; owner: Ammarpad):
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] MobileFrontend: Respect &target query parameter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/631932

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 3 2020, 4:31 PM
Jdlrobson updated the task description. (Show Details)Oct 5 2020, 10:11 PM
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gerritbot added a comment.Oct 9 2020, 12:45 AM

Change 631932 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend@master] MobileFrontend: Respect &target query parameter

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/631932

Jdlrobson closed this task as Resolved.Oct 9 2020, 12:49 AM
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Thanks @Ammarpad

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