Under the current functionalities of Special:Movepage, the wpReasonList parameter to index.php, if any, is reflected in the reason textbox (instead of in the reason dropdown), given the coding in SpecialMovePage.php#199 and below.
I would like to request that the value of wpReasonList be selected in the dropdown, just like on action=delete regulated by DeleteAction.php#457.
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| specials: Allow pre-select from reason list on Special:MovePage | mediawiki/core | master | +2 -2 |
if MediaWiki:Movepage-reason-dropdown has a reason like [[Some policy]] and a given template has a link with a href like /w/index.php?title=Special:Movepage/PAGE&wpReasonList=[[Some policy]] (putting aside URI encoding),
If we had the auto-select functionality, this kind of problems wouldn't occur. This is my main motivation for this proposal.
action=delete is using fields from the HTMLForm class, while Special:MovePage builds the html form directly from OOUI widgets, that makes the technical different in the code. These widgets does not take url parameter in to account by default.
To show the reason from the url there was extra code. In the case of the "confirm and delete" dialog (when moving to existing title as sysop) the reaon is shown as one reason field and not with the dropdown and the additional reason.
Change 1008565 had a related patch set uploaded (by Umherirrender; author: Umherirrender):
[mediawiki/core@master] specials: Allow pre-select from reason list on Special:MovePage
Change 1008565 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] specials: Allow pre-select from reason list on Special:MovePage