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Add shortcut support for prefix via Special:AllMessages/value
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Description

It would be useful to be able to refer to groups of messages using an internal link, such as

[[Special:AllMessages/exif]]


Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

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bz28882

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 11:24 PM
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For SpecialPage execution of Special:AllMessages there is a shortcut already.
It's used for the value of Language.

For example:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:AllMessages/nl
is a shortcut for:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllMessages&lang=nl

You can link to prefix-searches via the &prefix= paramter already:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:AllMessages&prefix=recentchanges-

Marking WONTFIX, to preserve backwards compatibility we shouldn't change the shortcut.