lol, judgmental Wikipedians :P

Just curious why are you trying to put this on the block a user page, instead of the block log?

rd232 wrote:

Thanks, it works! I was trying to put it on the "Block a user" page because (a) that's where it's most needed and (b) where I thought I could do it without a software change. It would be good to load the same page from the user's block log though. Maybe that can be done in Javascript?

It can't be done currently just by editing system messages (Since you can't tell what the target is from [[mediawiki:Blocklogtext]].) I suppose that message could be changed to accept $1 and $2 as target and user parameters to the log page. Not sure if that's the greatest approach

It could be done with Javascript (While anything could be done in js if you wanted.). This is generally the type of thing people prefer not to be done on the client side though (not that that has ever stopped anyone before).

rd232 wrote:

"I suppose that message could be changed to accept $1 and $2 as target and user parameters to the log page. Not sure if that's the greatest approach" - that would seem a reasonably simple solution. What's the downside?

• Bug 63102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

See also T218872