On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Russell Blau <[email protected]> wrote:
> It appears that since r45973, there is an enhancement to MediaWiki that > allows the software to follow double redirects, and conceivably triple- and > higher-level redirects, up to a configurable limit ($wgMaxRedirects). This > raises a few questions: > > 1) Should [[Special:DoubleRedirects]] be changed to show only those > redirect chains that exceed $wgMaxRedirects in length, since those are the > only ones that really need fixing under the current software? > Probably. Sounds like a pretty good idea actually. If a wiki allows chains of 3 redirects, there's no point to tell them chains of 2 or 3 are bad, only 4+. > > 2) If not, should there be a new Special: page to list such "excessive" > redirect chains? Probably not. I'd say tweak the current one (a better name for it?) > 3) How can the users (not sysadmins) of a given wiki determine what the > value of $wgMaxRedirects is for their wiki? In particular, what value is > being used currently on enwiki and other WMF projects? > The defaults for every setting are available for viewing on Mediawiki.org For this setting, the default appears to be 1, meaning that we keep long- standing behavior for the default. As for seeing your current settings, you can check out the configuration files at [1]. > 4) Shouldn't this configuration change have been announced to the user > community of each project so that they could consider how it affects their > internal policies on what types of redirects to allow? > > Russ New configuration options are introduced all the time. If the default settings don't change current behavior, they generally aren't announced widely. Keeping track of the various changes (on MW.org, subversion, or WP:POST on enwiki) is your best for knowing when something new is available to you. -Chad [1] - http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ - CommonSettings and InitialiseSettings are the two places to look. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
