Hi.
While I certainly appreciate the creativity, the developing trend of using
Special page transclusion as a rudimentary API in Scribunto/Lua modules is
worrying and, in my opinion, should be addressed soon.
Examples (using {{Special:ListFiles/}} and {{Special:PrefixIndex/}},
respectively):
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:MyUploads
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/110218872
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Module:Subpages
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Permalink/5416155
There are likely others. What can be done to address this issue?
MZMcBride