2008/4/2, Tim Johansson gurktim@gmail.com:
That is unfortunate. Seems as though we started around the same time. According to the GSoC FAQ [1] though, "That's fine, a little duplication is par for the course in open source."
[1] http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2008/faqs.html#0.1_multiple_accepted
Yes, I read that too.
However your implementation proposal is far better than mine, obviously. I was indeed focused on modifying wikitext, which does not make much sense when supporting category redirects will work just the same.