Allow (interwiki) hard redirect whitelisting
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	Nemo_bis
	Jan 23 2013, 5:14 PM

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If I understand correctly: $wgDisableHardRedirects is either all or nothing, $wgRedirectSources is only about incoming redirects, $wgInvalidRedirectTargets is only about special pages.

Enabling hard redirects for everything (i.e. for all local interwikis, cf. bug T40352: Categories should list threads, not summaries) is or can be too much. For instance, all Wikimedia projects are “local” to each other, but it's not very appropriate to automatically redirect a visitor, say, to a Wikipedia in another language.

It would be better to allow whitelisting for specific local interwikis, which could be used to enable hard redirects to specific “particularly close wikis”; and maybe also for specific special pages, if one wants to use a specific special page (maybe added by an extension) without worrying of all the additional possible special pages (as with $wgInvalidRedirectTargets).

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Reference: bz44286

Related Objects

Mentioned In: T14306: Implement MediaWiki Help Repository (fetching Help: pages from MediaWiki.org or Meta, similar to file description pages from Commons)
T45591: Link translatable help pages on mediawiki.org from the relevant special pages, actions etc.
Mentioned Here: T40352: Categories should list threads, not summaries
T14306: Implement MediaWiki Help Repository (fetching Help: pages from MediaWiki.org or Meta, similar to file description pages from Commons)
T45591: Link translatable help pages on mediawiki.org from the relevant special pages, actions etc.

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 22 2014, 1:35 AM

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Nemo_bis created this task.Jan 23 2013, 5:14 PM

If technically feasible, I like this idea a lot. Wouldn't this help solving problems like making [[mw:Help:Contents]] available to 3rd party wikis or "import" templates and keep them in sync?

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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mentorship_programs/Possible_projects

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