Last modified: 2012-11-11 14:24:09 UTC
From: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2009-August/044705.html Helder wrote: > > When we go to links such as: > http://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Project:About&title=test > http://pt.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?action=edit&preload=Project:About&title=MediaWiki:test > we note that both "test"and "MediaWiki:test" doesn't exist. But using the > preload parameter for the first page we get the text "#REDIRECT [[wikibooks:Sobre]]" > preloaded although for the second we don't. Helder
Done in r57055. Note: this works only when the message doesn't exist, to emulate preload only working when the page doesn't exist.
(In reply to comment #0) > > using the preload parameter for the first page we get the text "#REDIRECT [[wikibooks:Sobre]]" For the record this now preloads the redirect target's code, not the redirect's code.