On 8/31/05, Thomas Koll tomk32@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.