User blog comment:Sactage/Technical Update: July 31, 2012/@comment-4674838-20120802234834

Prior to this week's technical update with the new dropdown box to select namespaces in Special:RecentChanges, it used to be possible to view changes in the MediaWiki namespace by going to. I.e. the URL params were supposed to override whatever you had in your preferences. Is this a bug? (Edit: well I guess I'll just assume it is and report it :)