On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 01:21, Jeremy Baron <jeremy(a)tuxmachine.com> wrote:
How big is your conversion table? is it sufficient to
just redirect
all URLs that end with .html to remove the .html? (then you don't need
a table)
IIRC, the traditional way on WMF wikis to do dynamic changes to the
"no page here" page or redirects based on a pattern is with
javascript. (e.g. in [[mediawiki:common.js]]) One use that I think
existed once on some wiki was to do a search for the page name and
redirect automatically if one existed with the same spelling but some
letters in a different case. (DUMBO vs. Dumbo)
You could probably also do something with
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Hooks/ShowMissingArticle
-Jeremy