[Mediawiki-l] Link for "E-mail new password" breaks when username has a space in it

[Jan Steinman]

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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