Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration/Disable hard redirects

Request for disabling hard 302 redirects

 * Type : MediaWiki configuration
 * Reason : The current inter-wiki linking configuration allows for "hard" 302 redirects to other sites. For example, this allows people to unexpectedly be redirected to a different site (i.e. Wikipedia, Wikia, and commons). Currently, this feature is only used for the redirecting Game_link entries using the target, but the inter-wiki redirects to Wikipedia have been misused by vandals in the past (best example was someone redirecting his userpage to a somewhat obscene Wikipedia article). As there is no beneficial reason for us to retain these redirects at the moment, we would like to request that they be disabled.
 * Links : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking
 * Implementation : Changing the iw_local value for all non- redirects should disable them. See this conversation for details on how incorrect iw_local values disabled   302 redirects.
 * Possible pitfalls: None, as long as  interwiki links are not disabled in the process.