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Create page Special:UncategorizedRedirects
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Description

Feature summary (what you would like to be able to do and where):

  • Create a new page, Special:UncategorizedRedirects
  • Pretty self-explanatory what it is and does

Use case(s) (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem, and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not describe only a solution):

  • Maintenance work on all wikis

Benefits (why should this be implemented?):

  • Although not everyone find it necessary, and not all wikis treat redirects the same way, it’s not against any recommendations and guidelines to categorize redirects.

Event Timeline

Aklapper renamed this task from Suggestion for new special page, uncategorized redirects to Create page Special:UncategorizedRedirects.Sun, Jun 14, 9:49 AM

In many wikis, not only is it uncommon to add categories to redirects, but it is explicitly considered bad practice to do so.
I think it would be better, instead of creating a special page like this, to create a maintenance category that is enabled only on wikis that choose to use it (i.e., the default translation would be -), rather than implementing it as a special page or enabling it by default.