Set $wgDisableHardRedirects = false; on wikimediafoundation.org
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	• MZMcBride
	Oct 4 2010, 10:29 PM

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According to http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/CommonSettings.php.txt $wgDisableHardRedirects is set to "true" for all Wikimedia wikis.

This setting prevents redirects to Special pages, among other things. For example, http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Comments doesn't redirect properly currently.

This global setting in Wikimedia's configuration file is contrary to the default setting for a MediaWiki install. On a fishbowl wiki like wikimediafoundation.org, it shouldn't be an issue to set $wgDisableHardRedirects = false;.

It probably wouldn't be an issue to do it for all private/fishbowl wikis, but that's not as much of a concern (to me, at least).

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Severity: trivial

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Reference: bz25422

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• MZMcBride created this task.Oct 4 2010, 10:29 PM

jeluf wrote:

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Please reopen this ticket if anything went wrong.

The following configuration settings have been changed:

Index: InitialiseSettings.php

InitialiseSettings.php (revision 1207)

+++ InitialiseSettings.php (working copy)
@@ -8159,6 +8159,11 @@

	'default' => 86400,

+'wgDisableHardRedirects' => array(
+ 'default' => true,
+ 'foundationwiki' => false,
+),
+
'wmgUseLivePreview' => array(

	'default' => false,
	'testwiki' => true,

You can find the entire config file at
http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php

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