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Show redirects in categories with suffix, not italics.
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In categories, redirects are indicated by italics.

This blocks formatting of pages listed in categories. T31975

Italics should indicate titles of artistic works (etc) as detailed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Titles_of_works (etc)

Instead of using italics, redirects should be indicated by a suffix. If that suffix is a word, it needs to be a system message so it can be translated. It doesn't matter hugely what this is; (redirect) would work, as would (R) or even . The target page could also be specified here as a bonus feature, if possible.

So for example, "President Obama" is a redirect to "Barack Obama" The page "President Obama" should be listed in categories as:

  • [[President Obama]] (redirect)

Or maybe

  • [[President Obama]] (redirect to [[Barack Obama]])

I'm not so bothered with how things are done in [[Special:AllPages]] as that's not really public-facing, but the same change might be made there, too.

Assigning high priority because T31975 is high priority due to the huge number of pages it affects.

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Bugreporter2 updated the task description. (Show Details)

@Bugreporter2: A good first task is a self-contained, non-controversial task with a clear approach. It should be well-described with pointers to help a completely new contributor. Given the current short task description I'm removing the good first task tag. Please add details what exactly has to happen where and how for a new contributor, and then add back the good first task project tag. Thanks a lot in advance!