[Mediawiki-l] MediaWiki:Passwordremindertext adventures...

[Jan Steinman]

When a user asks for a password reminder, I want to include a nice,  
all-inclusive link in the generated email.

I've had good success, except for one quirk in our particular wiki  
conventions: all user names are pre-defined as "Firstname Lastname"  
-- including the space between the two --, rather than dealing with  
the username/realname dichotomy.

So I have the following (in part) in MediaWiki:Passwordremindertext:

     You should log in and change your password now, by going to:
         {{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Userlogin|wpName=$2&wpPassword= 
$3&returnto=Special:Preferences}}

But unfortunately, this shows up in email with the space intact  
between "Firstname" and "Lastname":

     http://www.somesite.org/wiki?title=Special:Userlogin&wpName=Jan  
Steinman&wpPassword=qHU5wGG&returnto=Special:Preferences

which is no longer a valid, clickable URL, which sort of defeats the  
purpose!

Before you say "RTFM", I've been all over http://meta.wikimedia.org/ 
wiki/Help:Variable . If there is a better place to get that info, let  
me know.

That page says to put "/" between the page name and the query string,  
but that results in the following mess:

     http://www.ecoreality.org/wiki/Special:Userlogin/%3FwpName%3D% 
242%26wpPassword%3D%243%26returnto%3DSpecial:Preferences

which doesn't seem to perform properly when clicked.

Any thoughts?

Oh yea, I think I've discovered a bug: I have account creation turned  
off (MW 1.5.2), but in the previous example, you end up with the  
account creation fields! (I haven't actually tried to see if it would  
actually let an account be created this way.)

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:::: Jan Steinman <http://www.Bytesmiths.com/Van>