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redirect not provided in the query API
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example API call where the actual redirect is given empty instead of "Thessaloniki"
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&continue=&format=xml&prop=revisions|info&titles=Salonica&rvprop=ids|content|timestamp|user|userid

<page _idx="13441713" ... redirect="">

while it should be

<page _idx="13441713" ... redirect="Thessaloniki">

is this a bug or is there another way to get the redirect target filled correctly?

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Jimkont created this task.Aug 17 2016, 11:09 AM
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Anomie closed this task as Invalid.Aug 17 2016, 2:08 PM
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The "redirect" property you are looking at is not intended to contain the target of the redirect, it is simply a flag indicating that the page is a redirect.

You can use the redirects query parameter to have redirects be automatically resolved. For a request to add the redirect target to prop=info, see T31115: add redirect target value on page info (ApiQueryInfo).

Jimkont mentioned this in T31115: add redirect target value on page info (ApiQueryInfo).Aug 17 2016, 2:18 PM
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