#3525: New mediawiki redirect behaviour is annoying
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Reporter: adamwill | Owner: webmaster
Type: annoyance | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: HANDWAVY-FUTURE
Component: Web Content | Version:
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
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Seems like mediawiki's redirect behaviour changed after a recent upgrade.
Unfortunately I much preferred the old behaviour.
Previously, if you hit a redirect, the displayed URL would be just the URL
of the redirected-to page, and there was a little link at the top to the
non-redirected version of the page you were redirected from.
So I could go to
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test and
I'd wind up at the apparent URL
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_18_Beta_TC4_Install
(which I could handily copy-and-paste somewhere, as I *frequently* do).
Now I wind up at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_18_Beta_TC4_Install?rd=Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
, and I have to chop off the last part of that if I want to paste it
anywhere and have it look remotely clean.
The other consequence is even more annoying - there is now no easy way
that I can find to get to the actual redirection page. Previously there
was a little link you could click if you oh say *wanted to change what
page the redirect pointed to* - which we do with the Current_XXX_Test and
Current_Test_Day redirects all the time. Now there isn't; I've looked and
looked but I don't see anything. You have to know or remember that, to
visit a redirect page without getting redirected, you have to enter the
URL and manually append ?redirect=no . That sucks.
Is it possible to go back to the old behaviour? Does MW have a config
option for this?
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