Last modified: 2011-08-29 21:07:48 UTC
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BannerAllocation currently uses <form action="post">. This makes sharing links to a particular view impossible. How are my friends going to gossip about banner allocation without a direct link? Probably makes sense to switch this to GET. I don't know why it was originally implemented with POST, but I don't see any drawbacks to a switch.
I looked at <http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/CentralNotice/special/SpecialBannerAllocation.php?revision=92809&view=markup> and some older revisions of the file. I don't see any reason it ever used post, other than that's how it was originally written. Parameter names look sane enough. Not sure how stable their values are, but they'll need to be reasonably stable in order to support URLs into the future. One thing I notice is that it's setting a default to en/wikipedia/US. Might make sense to switch that to all, if/when the option is added. I don't think making these changes would be very difficult. This bug has been marked as easy, accordingly.
A other special page in that extension also used POST in the past, see bug 30057
Fixed in r95697: Switched BannerAllocation form from post to get.
