Special pages aliases still work, e.g. http://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges?limit=2 becomes http://it.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Speciale:UltimeModifiche&limit=2 .

Tested on trunk, 1.16, 1.15 and 1.14 branches, the behavior is always the same: no redirection. I don't see any regression here.

Note for Nemo: special pages are treated separately.

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Tested on trunk, 1.16, 1.15 and 1.14 branches, the behavior is always the same:
no redirection. I don't see any regression here.

If it used to work and it doesn't work now, it apparently must be some regression. The only question is, where - please mind my footnote in comment #0.

What exactly did you test? Also please mind, that WMF runs a bit different version of MediaWiki.

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If it used to work and it doesn't work now, it apparently must be some
regression.

The problem is that I don't remember that those URLs were redirecting. The code is supposed to redirect only when there's no other query string parameter as title (action can be there, but only set to "view"); it has always been the same code since ages.

What exactly did you test? Also please mind, that WMF runs a bit different
version of MediaWiki.

I tested the case 2) on my local machine. The code actually running on WMF site is essentially MediaWiki 1.16.0.