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Various special pages should autocomplete page names
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Description

Steps to replicate the issue

  • Go to Special:CiteThisPage or Special:WhatLinksHere
  • try typing in some names of pages
  • It autocompletes the names of the pages.
  • Note the behaviour
  • Go to Special:Delete, Special:EditPage, Special:PageHistory, Special:PageInfo or Special:Purge
  • Start typing the name of a page

What happens?:

There is no autocomplete for these special pages

What should have happened instead?:

There should be autocompletion for these special pages.

Software version:

Tested on 1.43

Notes

These should use the same title input widget (includes/Widget/TitleInputWidget.php) if they don't already.
includes/HTMLForm/Field/HTMLTitleTextField.php is probably relevant as well (sorry for the poor notes, but I figured some hints are better than nothing).

Event Timeline

Aklapper renamed this task from Various special pages don't autocomplete page names to Various special pages should autocomplete page names.Nov 7 2025, 2:25 PM
Aklapper removed a project: Design.
Aklapper changed the subtype of this task from "Bug Report" to "Feature Request".

Change #1209198 had a related patch set uploaded (by SD0001; author: SD0001):

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialRedirectWithAction: use HTMLTitleTextField for page input

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1209198

Change #1209198 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] SpecialRedirectWithAction: use HTMLTitleTextField for page input

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1209198

SD0001 claimed this task.