[Mediawiki-l] Redirect Questions

[Rowan Collins]

On 26/05/05, Heiser, Damien <Damien_Heiser at cable.comcast.com> wrote:
> Is it possible to do a redirect such as the following?
> 
> #REDIRECT [[{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}]]

No. Occasionally someone opens a bug report to the effect that a
redirect statement with a template in it doesn't work, and it gets
marked WONTFIX with a comment that redirects should always refer to a
specific page. The reasoning presumably being that the software should
be able to store and retrieve from the database the exact target of
the redirect without having to parse any syntax.

Of course, your example adds an extra dimension of awkwardness, since
who knows how such a redirect would interact with the internal
parser-cache if it did work...

-- 
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]