Allow (interwiki) hard redirect whitelisting
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	Nemo_bis
	Jan 23 2013, 5:14 PM

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If I understand correctly: [[mw:Manual:$wgDisableHardRedirects]] is either all or nothing, $wgRedirectSources is only about incoming redirects, $wgInvalidRedirectTargets is only about special pages.

Enabling hard redirects for everything (i.e. for all local interwikis, cf. bug 40352) is or can be too much. For instance, all Wikimedia projects are "local" to each other, but it's not very appropriate to automatically redirect a visitor, say, to a Wikipedia in another language.

It would be better to allow whitelisting for specific local interwikis, which could be used to enable hard redirects to specific "particularly close wikis"; and maybe also for specific special pages, if one wants to use a specific special page (maybe added by an extension) without worrying of all the additional possible special pages (as with $wgInvalidRedirectTargets).

Version: 1.23.0
Severity: enhancement
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12306
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43591

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Reference: bz44286

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Mentioned In: T14306: Implement MediaWiki Help Repository (fetching Help: pages from MediaWiki.org or Meta, similar to file description pages from Commons)
T45591: Link translatable help pages on mediawiki.org from the relevant special pages, actions etc.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:35 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Redirects.

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Nemo_bis created this task.Jan 23 2013, 5:14 PM

If technically feasible, I like this idea a lot. Wouldn't this help solving problems like making [[mw:Help:Contents]] available to 3rd party wikis or "import" templates and keep them in sync?

Is this a potential Possible Project?

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects

matej_suchanek mentioned this in T45591: Link translatable help pages on mediawiki.org from the relevant special pages, actions etc..Jun 27 2015, 2:46 PM

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Krinkle moved this task from General to General on the MediaWiki-Redirects board.Jul 31 2017, 9:29 PM

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Krinkle moved this task from General to General on the MediaWiki-Redirects board.Apr 9 2022, 2:18 PM