"Steve Bennett" stevage@gmail.com wrote in message news:f1c3529e0610150245o47ff8355n2c5b220351d588a7@mail.gmail.com...
On 10/14/06, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se
wrote:
- User enters ?action=edit in the browser's location field
This is such a bizarre, unlikely event confined to a few rare users who already know how MediaWiki works that I suggest totally discarding it from any future use case analysis. Anyone who manipulates URLs by hand can deal with the consequences.
It is not bizarre, and it is not unlikely.
I agree that it may be confined to 'a smallish subset' of users, but if we're talking about changing behaviour it is a very Bad Idea to ignore one of the possible uses - that's how things get broken.
Also this 'smallish subset' of users are also the type of people who create links such as [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=This_Page&action=edit%C2%A7ion... Add a comment] which can be clicked by anyone. I'm not sure if this is the same as typing into the URL, or a new 5th option, but it is something to consider.
- Mark Clements (HappyDog)