We require a login for our corporate intranet Wiki. If you try to edit a page and you're not logged in, you receive the message
"You have to login to edit pages." (with "edit" a link to the login page)
This text is defined by the "MediaWiki:Whitelistedittext" system message. Here is that message's Wiki markup:
"You have to [[Special:Userlogin|login]] to edit pages."
I've been receiving complaints from users that if you click on that link and log in, the following page gives you a link to the Main Page, not the page you wanted to edit, and you have to navigate back where you were.
You do, however, get this link back to where you were if you use the "Log in" link in the page navigation, rather than the link from Whitelistedittext. This is because the link contains the "returnto" parameter:
.../index.php?title=Special:Userlogin&returnto=My_Page
What is the cleanest way to add the "returnto" parameter with the proper value to this other link, the one generated from Whitelistedittext? I've been fooling around with this for a while and haven't found a clean solution. Has anyone else tackled this?
Thanks for your help!
Sincerely, Matthew Simoneau The MathWorks, Inc.
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 13:27:37 -0500, Matthew Simoneau > What is the cleanest way to add the "returnto" parameter with the proper
value to this other link, the one generated from Whitelistedittext? I've been fooling around with this for a while and haven't found a clean solution. Has anyone else tackled this?
Have you tried modifiying the link to say: [{{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Userlogin|returnto={{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}}}]
Just typing this from my head, so you might have to fiddle with it
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