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Changing back to #REDIRECT on nl.wikipedia.org
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Author: niels

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Hi.

In this change:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/languages/messages/MessagesNl.php?r1=41703&r2=41702&pathrev=41703

the order of precedence was changed so that automatically created redirects (created by page moves e.g.) now get #DOORVERWIJZING instead of #REDIRECT.

This created some problems with interwikibots (now solved). Reactions on the wiki were almost all opposing this change
(http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Overleg_gewenst&oldid=14506839#.23redirect_.2F_.23doorverwijzing, http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:De_kroeg&oldid=14510905#Onnodig.2C_overbodig.2C_onverkwikkelijk, http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:De_kroeg&oldid=14510905#Doorverwijzing)

Please change it back so #REDIRECT gets used as standard.

Best regards,

[[nl:User:Niels]]


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Reference
bz16323

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Lowest.Nov 21 2014, 10:26 PM
bzimport set Reference to bz16323.

Current redirect magic word localisation for nl/Dutch is as follows:

'redirect' => array( '0', '#DOORVERWIJZING', '#REDIRECT' ),

The purpose of localisation is to make all aspects of software available in a language. It may take some getting used to for long time users, when something that had not been localised before, is localised. It is currently not possible to override magic words on a local level. Until that is possible, closing this as later.

Bots should retrieve the up-to-date list of magic words via http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query_-_Meta#siteinfo_.2F_si

As of local changes, isn't it possible to create a dummy language nl-wikipedia that falls back to nl, but overrides some magic words? Anyway, since so much time has passed, newer discussions indicating community consensus are needed. Closing the bug.