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Improve the usability of HTMLForm/FormSpecialPage
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FormSpecialPage

  • Make it easier to use as a GET form, and allowing always show the form.
  • Better support of subpage syntax, subclasses should only need to provide the field name.
  • ...

HTMLForm

  • Integrate with FormOptions. Some pagers are using FormOptions to retrieve data, so the related special pages are dealing with user inputs manually.
  • ...

Event Timeline

Change 875935 had a related patch set uploaded (by Func; author: Func):

[mediawiki/core@master] Refactor SpecialWhatLinksHere to use FormSpecialPage

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/875935

Change 875935 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] Make the FormSpecialPage easier to use as a GET form

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/875935

matmarex assigned this task to Func.
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This change caused Special:BotPasswords to show its summary twice, I opened a ticket at T328212