Last modified: 2010-10-08 12:23:47 UTC
According to http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/CommonSettings.php.txt $wgDisableHardRedirects is set to "true" for all Wikimedia wikis. This setting prevents redirects to Special pages, among other things. For example, http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Comments doesn't redirect properly currently. This global setting in Wikimedia's configuration file is contrary to the default setting for a MediaWiki install. On a fishbowl wiki like wikimediafoundation.org, it shouldn't be an issue to set $wgDisableHardRedirects = false;. It probably wouldn't be an issue to do it for all private/fishbowl wikis, but that's not as much of a concern (to me, at least).
Your change has been completed. Please reopen this ticket if anything went wrong. The following configuration settings have been changed: =================================================================== Index: InitialiseSettings.php =================================================================== --- InitialiseSettings.php (revision 1207) +++ InitialiseSettings.php (working copy) @@ -8159,6 +8159,11 @@ 'default' => 86400, ), +'wgDisableHardRedirects' => array( + 'default' => true, + 'foundationwiki' => false, +), + 'wmgUseLivePreview' => array( 'default' => false, 'testwiki' => true, =================================================================== You can find the entire config file at http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php