Guild Wars Wiki:Requests for technical administration/Disable hard redirects
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Request for disabling hard 302 redirects[edit]
- 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
self:
, 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-
self:
redirects should disable them. See this conversation for details on how incorrect iw_local values disabledself:
302 redirects. - Possible pitfalls
- None, as long as
self:
interwiki links are not disabled in the process.