https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38962

--- Comment #6 from Legoktm <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #5)

> What happens when you try to EditEntity a redirect through the API?
> * This is an interesting one :/ I almost feel like saying you cant.. Imagine
> if
> a bot were to get a list of items and work on them throught a day, during the
> day one of the items gets redirected by another user, the bot then comes
> around
> to make its edit, if it had the ability to edit it may simply overwrite the
> page, which may not be the right thing to do. Perhaps a parameter to not
> follow
> redirects, so by default they would be followed, but if you really want to
> you
> can still edit the entity from the api (there may be a case this is needed)

In the standard API you can use the &redirects parameter
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Query#Resolving_redirects). Something like
that would work.

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