Hi all,
I just tried to make a somewhat advanced kind of redirect. I used a combination of interwiki-code, a bit of "hard coded" title text plus one part of the target title name defined using a template, like so:
#REDIRECT [[iw-code:BlahBlah/{{template.default.locator}}]]
Unfortunately the above redirect doesn't work. When I introduced the template part of the target title ( "{{template.default.locator}}" ) it no longer works. It worked fine, though, while I had the entire target title name hard coded, like so:
#REDIRECT [[iw-code:BlahBlah/DefaultTitle]]
*Conclusion*: the template obviously isn't expanded before the target address is evaluated (using MW 1.9.3).
This is unfortunate because it means that I cannot "globally" control (redirect) a certain "locator-link" via the template mechanism. I use a separate page as a "standard link" in a group of pages used to represent an "object" (one page = one "attribute").
Is there anyone else who also needs this kind of link, I mean, so it might be taken under consideration as something that really really needs to be fixed...? =)
Regards,
// Rolf Lampa