New subject: What can go in a #REDIRECT? (not system variables!)

7 Nov 2012

I'm using MediaWiki 1.16.2. (Yea, I know. But it's running so well, and every time
I've upgraded, it's cost me a couple days of mop-up.)

I have a number of pages in the format "Something, YYYY" or "YYYY
something," such as "Budget, 2012" or "2012 harvest".

I have a number of #REDIRECT pages like "Current budget" that point to (for
example) "Budget, 2012". Presently, I manually update them at year-end.

I find that I cannot put {{CURRENTYEAR}} in the #REDIRECT link, such as:
	#REDIRECT [[Budget, {{CURRENTYEAR}}]]

Why not? Such links work elsewhere!

When I do so, the redirect no longer works, and someone clicking on "Current
budget" (for example) ends up on the redirect page, rather than the page being
pointed to by the #REDIRECT.

Is this a bug I should report? Is there some work-around? Does it work properly in newer
versions? (Could be what I need to upgrade... :-)

Any other hints to get it to do what I want?

Thanks!

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