rel=canonical is shown on redirect=no but not upon redirection
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	DanielFriesen
	Mar 7 2012, 3:41 AM

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Our rel=canonical code seams to be implemented incorrectly.

No rel=canonical on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection
But a rel=canonical on https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Redirection&redirect=no

rel=canonical is supposed to canonicalize https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirection to the page it points to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirect

The rel=canonical on the redirect=no is rubbish, the content displayed at that url is not the article and hence the canonical version is NOT the article being redirected to.

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Reference: bz35022

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 12:15 AM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-Redirects.

• bzimport set Reference to bz35022.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

DanielFriesen created this task.Mar 7 2012, 3:41 AM

This looks fixed.

$ curl "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Redirection&redirect=no" | grep canonical
<link rel="canonical" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Redirection&amp;redirect=no" />
$ curl https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Redirection | grep canonical
<link rel="canonical" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redirect" />

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