On 8/31/05, Thomas Koll <tomk32(a)gmx.de> wrote:
Am 31.08.2005 um 09:44 schrieb jdd:
after some tests, it seems that #redirect works
only once (1.5)
…
is that what is wanted ?
Absolutely. Imagine:
Article A -> Art. B -> Art. C -> Article A
Of course it's easy to prevent such loops by remembering where the
redirect started
but for reasons of performance MediaWiki decides for the simple way of
allowing only one redirect.
Actually not THAT easy, consider:
Article A -> Art. B -> Art C -> Art. B
To detect a cycle each 'new' article in the cycle needs to be checked
against all previously visited articles.