On a wiki I unsuccessfully try to return users to the very page they started out with their user registration by adding: [{{fullurl:Special:UserLogin/signup|returnto={{FULLPAGENAMEE}}}} ''Login'' to this wiki (and come back here)]. So what happens: After registration the user gets returned to Special:UserLogin showing "Welcome, username" and below some bla, bla, bla together with a link "Return to 'the page you last visited'" and there is no direct return to the original page. On e.g. German Wikipedia I get directly to the original page. Does anyone know the trick to get MW obeying the "returnto" parameter instead of ignoring it in a way?
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I asked via the mailing list. Keeping fingers crossed for a solution.
Well, it turns out to be a bug which was fixed for MW 1.24+ with the following code change. Cool!