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Special:AllPages no longer has the ability to "hide redirects", like Special:PrefixIndex (regression?)
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Special:AllPages no longer provides an option to "Hide redirects", like Special:PrefixIndex does. Furthermore, it does not respect the choice of "&hideredirects=1" when added "manually" to the page's URL.

Both pages used to be able to hide redirects, as a result of (presumably):

Note that Special:Statistics still links the "Content pages" label to a URL ending in "&hideredirects=1".

(All links here are to the English WIkipedia, but the behavior is seen on all of the random handful of Wikimedia wikis I checked.)

This looks like a regression. Or is it intentional for some reason?

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Dcljr created this task.Aug 17 2017, 12:45 AM
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Intentional.

Disabled in misermode, which is enabled on WMF wikis

https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/blob/91a920f /includes/specials/SpecialAllPages.php#L73-L74

I added it months ago https://github.com/wikimedia/mediawiki/commit/454b199537b53bf1851afe8d38c9c0a817a6a310 for T160916

History/activity can be followed there

It's not considered (yet?) a performance problem in Prefix Index

Furthermore, it does not respect the choice of "&hideredirects=1" when added "manually" to the page's URL.

It wouldn't, because it's hard disabled in code. Things aren't just hidden from the UI

Reedy closed this task as Invalid.Aug 17 2017, 12:51 AM
• Obsuser subscribed.Aug 17 2017, 1:03 AM
• Obsuser added a comment.Aug 17 2017, 1:05 AM
In T173479#3529746, @Reedy wrote:

It wouldn't, because it's hard disabled in code. Things aren't just hidden from the UI

Why "&hideredirects=1" is not removed from these URLs if it is useless there?

Aklapper added a comment.Aug 17 2017, 11:15 AM

What are "these URLs"? Do you refer to links on Special:Statistics ? Something else?

Dcljr added a comment.Aug 18 2017, 4:06 AM

[If I may…] Yes, Obsuser was referring to the links coming from Special:Statistics.

Reedy added a comment.Aug 28 2017, 7:26 PM
In T173479#3529765, @Obsuser wrote:
In T173479#3529746, @Reedy wrote:

It wouldn't, because it's hard disabled in code. Things aren't just hidden from the UI

Why "&hideredirects=1" is not removed from these URLs if it is useless there?

Because the code wasn't modified to do so. It could be done, it's a relatively small issue to fix. But do we really need to?

• Obsuser added a comment.Sep 17 2017, 10:00 PM

No, if when there is more important stuff – no.

• MZMcBride mentioned this in T228552: "Content pages" link on Special:Statistics includes &hideredirects=1 though miser mode is enabled on wiki.Jul 19 2019, 10:39 PM
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