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

[Jan Steinman]

> From: Q <overlordq at gmail.com>
>
> Jan Steinman wrote:
>> Are there others out there who are successfully using a "clickback"
>> link in MediaWiki:passwordremindertext who would like to share their
>> secret?
>
> Try using the {{urlencode}} magic word?

Thank you for the suggestion, Q.

Doing so appears to go through the urlencode process upon saving the  
message -- it "urlencodes" the literal "$2" when what is needed is to  
url-encode what is passed in the parameter $2 at run-time.

Unless I misunderstand, and you had some other use of {{urlencode|}}  
in mind. I suppose one would have to modify the PHP code to intercept  
the parameter at run time.

> From: Daniel Kinzler <daniel at brightbyte.de>
>
> localurl kann parameter haben. Versuch's mal so:
> {{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Userlogin|wpName=$2|wpPassword=$3| 
> returnto=Special:Preferences}}

Danke, Daniel,

Ich habe versucht, aber hatte das gleiche Ergebnis wie zuvor.

(This produced the same result as what I had before.)

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