Template:Explanation

Some of the message parameters here (previously on MediaWiki:Pagemovedtext) still seem very broken (as of this posting). $1 and $2 work fine as full links to the previous (with &redirect=no) and current page. But $3 and $4, which return the plain text of the page names, don't work in most link wikicode (fullurl, localurl, or even [[bracket]] links). For example:

*[[$3]]
  produces:
<a href="/w/index.php?title=%243&action=edit" class="new" title="Title of page">Title of page</a>

However, it works with the full URL, such as:

[http://test.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/$4 check]
  produces:
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Title of Page" class="external text" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/Title of Page" rel="nofollow">check</a>

Anyway, a mostly working (except on the secure server, obviously) iteration of this can be seen at --Splarka (rant) 07:41, 1 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fixed for now using external link syntax. —{admin} Pathoschild 16:44:01, 02 July 2007 (UTC)

Heh, a clever work-around. I think you forgot the closing </div> though? Also, this should be fixed in the next scap? rev:23604. Also: {{fullurl:Special:Whatlinkshere|target=$3}} seems to work (example) --Splarka (rant) 01:13, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. I closed the tag, and will keep an eye on the current revision (1.44.0-wmf.12 (8b8c762)) before updating the messages and documentation. —{admin} Pathoschild 03:50:30, 03 July 2007 (UTC)

• I just got a pretty weird move message when moving a page with multiple words in its title. I think there is something wrong with the tokenization? — brighterorange (talk) 03:08, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ahh Yes, the revert link is screwed up. --Splarka (rant) 07:10, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, it looks like rev:23604 fixed the wikilink problem, but $3 and $4 still cannot be used in external links or parserfunctions, making the revert link unfixable. PathosChild: maybe grab (minus the tests) for enwp (uses wikilinks, has the broken revert link commented out)? --Splarka (rant) 10:46, 11 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I switched the links to wikiML, fixed the delete link by adding a hidden <span id="specialDeleteTarget" style="display:none;">$3</span> at the end of the message for the JavaScript (which should be updated to use $1 again), and fixed the revert link with the {{MediaWiki revert move link}} workaround template. —{admin} Pathoschild 17:06:49, 11 July 2007 (UTC)