> From: Chad <innocentkil...@gmail.com>
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 07/11/12 21:00, Chad wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Jan Steinman <j...@bytesmiths.com> wrote:
>>>> I find that I cannot put {{CURRENTYEAR}} in the #REDIRECT link, such as:
>>>> #REDIRECT [[Budget, {{CURRENTYEAR}}]]
>>>>
>>>> Why not? Such links work elsewhere!
>>>
>>> This does not work with redirects. They're not parsed in the same way pages
>>> normally are (it just looks for #REDIRECT + a link).
>>>
>>> -Chad
>>
>> We could expand parser functions if there are {{ }} there.
>> Seems worth to open a bug.
>
> It's been WONTFIX'd since '05. I guess we can reopen it :)
>
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575
Thanks! It seems to be a very useful way of having static page names invoke
dynamic content.
I'm going to try the template work-around that Jamie Thingelstad posted.
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