Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:37:59 UTC
'#REDIRECT [[:Category:Some_Category]]' does not work.
this is fixed in cvs. Please test it on http://test.wikipedia.org/
The page redirected to shows up now, but not the articles in it. Compare [[:Category:Disambiguation]] (some random category I redirected to) on the test wiki to [[Redirect_to_category]].
Well done :o) We have to change the namespace of the article object when we follow a redirect.
Removing fixed-in-cvs keyword, since this still fails in 1.4.
Just tested on test.wikipedia.org: the image redirect behaviour is still broken as described in Bug #1103.
*** Bug 1158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 100 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Redirect of categories works per se, both with and without the initial colon. But when you get to the redirected article itself, the category list does not appear.
*** Bug 1476 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bug 1476 is NOT a duplicate of this one. test.wikipedia.org seems to have dissapeared! i have set up a series of test pages on the commons (since that seems to be the wiki that needs redirects to categories most) to gauge the current status of this issue. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Testredirectpagetopage (works fine) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Testredirectpagetocat (shows title section of category but not contents) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Testredirectpagetoimage (shows image description but the image itself image links or image history) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Testredirectimagetopage (works fine) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Testredirectimagetocat (shows title section of category but not contents) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Testredirectimagetoimage (shows image discription and image links section works but the image itself and the image history are not there) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Testredirectcattopage (works fine) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Testredirectcattocat (works fine) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Testredirectpagetoimage (shows image description but the image itself image links or image history) so it seems that right now we can redirect from anything to a page and from a category to a category and it will work right but everything else is broken.
well, if a category:YY contains "#redirect[[:Category:XX]] "can work and we reach the target category, but there the page tagged with category:YY cannot be listed in Category:XX, so redirection itself don't solve the problem perfectly imo. I wonder we could get the tagged with the former category in the latter category too, or it is not feasible.
(In reply to comment #11) It's technologically feasible. Whether it's practical is another question... Just to clarify: if a user navigates directly to Category:XX, then only pages in category XX would be listed, but if a user navigates to Category:YY and is redirected to Category:XX, pages in either category are displayed. Or would you always want pages in either category displayed, regarless of how one navigates there? The former sounds potentially confusing to the user. The latter could get crazy. I had thought a bit about a "Merge Category" special page, but this would require actual changes to the text of pages where the category name is changed -- something I think we want to stay away from.
This change works for me: diff Article.php.orig Article.php 389c389 < if ( $rt->getNamespace() == NS_SPECIAL ) { --- > if ( $rt->getNamespace() != $this->mNamespace ) {
back around, will try to have a close look at this old bug ( see #100 as well :p ).
*** Bug 2945 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I commited a patch for index.php that check if the page redirect to something and if so fix the namespace if it's different. Seems to solve the issue with redirect from main namespace to a category page. Still have to fix it when a page redirect to an image (image is actually not showing).
The image issue is bug 786
'#REDIRECT [[:Category:Some_Category]]' from an article to a category redirects to the right page, but entries of this category are missing. With a click on register category on this page you get the entries.
(In reply to comment #18) > '#REDIRECT [[:Category:Some_Category]]' from an article to a category redirects > to the right page, but entries of this category are missing. With a click on > register category on this page you get the entries. And it's fixed in cvs. Not sure if I should commit it back to 1.5.
It'd be nice to have. We make heavy use of categories for their convenience, and would like to redirect (eg) Conventions to Category:Conventions so we don't have to type out [[:Category:Conventions|conventions]] all the time, but we can't do that until the fix is in.
We use this too heavily. Why don't you want to commit it back?
Another issue relating to this. Not only does redirecting from an Article to a Category not display the list of sub-categories, but if there is a discussion page associated with the category it is not showing up. I believe that while the redirect occurred, it still thinks it is back at the previous article (and that previous article didn't have a discussion). This would then make sense, as the engine believes it is rendering an article (after all that was the type of page being loaded), but once redirected it does not need to list any sub-categories because it is still under the assumption its the "original" article it is rendering (despite the content being that of the destination).
Is there an update on the status of this bug?
It seems to be working fine in wikipedia.org, however my mediawiki site v1.5.0 does not seem to work. see working at wikipedia.org http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Flamenco_singers&redirect=no http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamenco_singers
iirc its fixed in current cvs and on the wikimedia sites but not in the 1.5.x branch atm i dunno if they are going to bother backporting it or not.
Let's assume I am fairly new at MediaWiki administration, but that we need the display of subcategories on redirect. What files should I get from CVS and replace in my install to fix this?
I got it to work by replacing index.php with version 1.101 from the CVS repository. It doesn't seem to have broken anything else.....yet. http://www.wikipubs.com
Just reporting that I installed a personal wiki with the 1.5.4 version and I still experience the same problem more than 2 months after the last post. But it was the holidays so... : )
Hallo! The actual summary of this bug relates to "categories" only: Bug 710: Redirect to category page doesn't work However the actual "Blocks" list of this bug contains: Bug 786: Redirect on an image description page redirects, but the target page displays the image Bug 1103: When redirecting to an image description page, the redirect works but the image is not show. There is also Bug 709: Cannot rename/move images and other media files. and Bug 4470: Need to refer to a single image using multiple names Please readjust dependencies. Thanks in advance! best regards reinhardt [[user:gangleri]]
(In reply to comment #27) > Let's assume I am fairly new at MediaWiki administration, but that we need the > display of subcategories on redirect. What files should I get from CVS and > replace in my install to fix this? I'm in the same boat, but moreso -- how do I get files from the CVS?
(In reply to comment #32) > I'm in the same boat, but moreso -- how do I get files from the CVS? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Download_from_CVS
Fixed last monthish.
Is this completely fixed? Doing a category RDR to a category works as far as the link goes, but an image in the bad category doesn't appear in the better one. I put [[commons:Image:Example.jpg]] in [[:commons:Category:Badcategoryname]], then tried to make it a RDR to [[:commons:Category:Goodcategoryname]]. Should we just stick to {{category redirect}}?
That's a separate issue.
Specifically, that's Bug 3311: Automatic category redirects
*** Bug 5226 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
