Unable to access the revision-deletion interface from Special:Log - an "Invalid target revision" error page is displayed
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	A_smart_kitten
	Apr 28 2025, 3:39 PM

Description

Steps to replicate the issue

Log in to a wiki as an account with delete, deleterevision, deletedhistory and deletelogentry rights.
Navigate to Special:Log.
Select the checkboxes next to any of the listed log events, and click "Change visibility of selected log entries".

What happens?
An "Invalid target revision" error page is displayed:

What should have happened instead?
The user is taken to the "Delete/undelete revisions" page for the selected log events.

Software version
mediawiki/core at ee5c229

Other information/Notes
Reproduced locally using MediaWiki-Docker with a MariaDB database.
git bisect tells me this was broken by rMWb9b84e6651af: Switch from mixed Xml and Html classes to pure Html ones in misc code (https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/997975) merged on 2025-04-22; cc @Jdforrester-WMF @matmarex for awareness

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Fix RevisionDelete / EditTags checkboxes	mediawiki/core	master	+2 -10

Customize query in gerrit

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		Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
		Resolved	Release	dduvall	T386222 1.44.0-wmf.27 deployment blockers
		Resolved	BUG REPORT	matmarex	T392832 Unable to access the revision-deletion interface from Special:Log - an "Invalid target revision" error page is displayed

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A_smart_kitten created this task.Apr 28 2025, 3:39 PM

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptApr 28 2025, 3:39 PM

Not gonna change the priority field myself given I filed this task, but I believe this should be fixed as a high priority -- unless I'm missing something, it breaks the ability to (at least easily) revision-delete log entries from the Special:Log interface.

I must have overlooked something in code review, I'll debug this.