The way you completely lose your page tabs when switching to
Special:MovePage has been a bother to me for awhile... it's bad
interface design to have a set of tabs linking to other pages with the
same set of tabs, but to have a single one of them strangely point to a
page where those tabs completely disappear.
1.18 has a new feature now. From a special page you can call
$skin->setRelatedTitle and $skin->setRelatedTitle. Calling
setRelatedTitle will mark a title as relevant to the current page, doing
so will cause some parts of the ui (namely the page tabs) to display
things relevant to that page. Calling setRelatedUser likewise will cause
some parts of the ui (namely the toolbox) to display things that they
would display if you were on the user's userpage. These methods are
currently used by Special:MovePage (title), Special:Undelete (title),
Special:Contributions (user), and Special:BlockIp (user). If you have
another special page you feel is relevant enough to use these methods
feel free to tweak it's code.
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~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [
http://daniel.friesen.name]