TemplateWizard should resolve redirects when getting TemplateData
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	Jan 24 2025, 10:29 AM

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When using TemplateWizard to add a template shortcut¹, the template data of the target page is not loaded.

This works in VisualEditor and its wikitext mode.

Such as {{tlg}}, which is a redirect to {{Template link general}} on enwiki and others.

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ExE-Boss created this task.Jan 24 2025, 10:29 AM

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There isn't any templatedata for Template:Template link general, so there is nohing to expect to be loaded from templatedata for the redirect either.

Escargot_rouge added a comment.Mar 7 2026, 6:52 PM

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Change #1248987 had a related patch set uploaded (by Escargot bleu; author: Escargot bleu):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Restore detetection of templatedata for redirects and remove remaining cache duplicates in MWTransclusionModel

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1248987

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 7 2026, 7:04 PM

Change #1248987 had a related patch set uploaded (by Escargot bleu; author: Escargot bleu):

[mediawiki/extensions/VisualEditor@master] Restore detetection of templatedata for redirects and remove remaining cache duplicates in MWTransclusionModel

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1248987

Escargot_rouge removed a project: Patch-For-Review.Mar 8 2026, 9:42 AM

In T384685#11676043, @Escargot_rouge wrote:

There isn't any templatedata for Template:Template link general, so there is nohing to expect to be loaded from templatedata for the redirect either.

Actually, there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Template_link_general#TemplateData

In T384685#11720749, @ExE-Boss wrote:

In T384685#11676043, @Escargot_rouge wrote:

There isn't any templatedata for Template:Template link general, so there is nohing to expect to be loaded from templatedata for the redirect either.

Actually, there is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Template_link_general#TemplateData

Yes, I created it after my comment. And sorry for the unrelated gerrit patches.

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