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