@Mdann52 What does not work with $wgMaxRedirects > 1? What do you expect how it should work?

So what happens is that the expected behaviour should be it follows X redirects (so if x=2, it will go a>b>c), however currently it only follows one (and shows the redirect page to c). I'd expect it to follow the number of redirects specified.

When you create an article c and a redirect b pointing to c and a redirect a pointing to b.

When you now open title=a&redirect=no you get

• with $wgMaxRedirects = 1:

↳ c

• with $wgMaxRedirects = 2:

↳ b → c

Therefor $wgMaxRedirects = 1 and $wgMaxRedirects = 2 create a difference.

In T122771#1913752, @Fomafix wrote:

When you create an article c and a redirect b pointing to c and a redirect a pointing to b.

When you now open title=a&redirect=no you get

• with $wgMaxRedirects = 1:

↳ c

There is a small mistake: This does not result in ↳ c, but in ↳ b.

I do not understand your answer.

I edited the post in an attempt to improve it, hope it's clear now.

Thanks for clarification.

I retested with my local installation with $wgMaxRedirects = 2. I get for title=a&redirect=no

↳ b → c

I created the links by moving an article from a to b and from b to c.

@Mdann52 Are you sure you have not fallen victim to the bug T32359? Let us have $wgMaxRedirects = 2 and a redirect from A to B. If you complete your redirect chain by moving B to C, then the double redirect from A through B to C will not be followed due to that bug. However, if you create the redirect from A to B as the last operation, it should work.

@Fomafix That means that my claim applies only to $wgMaxRedirects = 1. I edited the post once again and hope that my critique is correct now.

Yes, this was a mistake in my comment. With $wgMaxRedirects = 1 title=a&redirect=no results:

↳ b