I have changed the text of MediaWiki:Passwordremindertext in an attempt to include a link, so that people won't have to go enter user/ pass on a form.

I know, it's a small thing, but almost all other websites that have you register with an email address have this feature, and we have a fairly large number of users who are not particularly sophisticated computer users.

So I put: {{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Userlogin}}?wpName=$2&wpPassword= $3&returnto=Special:Preferences

in the Passwordremindertext message, but the user ID has (by convention) a space in it, as we use (by convention) "Firstname Lastname" as our user IDs. This causes the link to break in {{localurl:Special:Userlogin}}. This causes our unsophisticated user base to simply give up, rather than copy-n-paste the password.

At one time, I'm pretty sure I had this working, but a user recently complained, and then I discovered that it *never* works any longer, at least for our user name convention, at least for MW 1.13.

Are there others out there who are successfully using a "clickback" link in MediaWiki:passwordremindertext who would like to share their secret?

Thanks in advance!

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