Hello, The #REDIRECT function is only for redirecting pages within your wiki to other pages within your wiki. It cannot be used to redirect pages within your wiki to another external non-MediaWiki site. However, if you are using https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Interwiki you can set up interwiki prefixes to Point to other MediaWiki sites, for example, Wikipedia. Examples: * If you want your wiki page “Test” to automatically redirect users who open it to the page “Example”, you can replace all content on the page “Test” with #REDRIECT [[Example]] * If you have configured a prefix for Wikipedia in Special:Interwiki (usually something like “en:” or “wikipedia:”), you can do an interwiki soft redirect between your wiki and Wikipedia. However please note that soft redirects do not redirect users automatically - they require the users to click on the redirect link. So, if you wanted to redirect the page “Test” on your wiki to the Wikipedia Main Page, and you were using en: as the interwiki prefix, you would replace all content on the page “Test” on your wiki with #REDIRECT [[:en:Main Page]]. Hope this helps. — Amanda
On Monday, January 1, 2018, 3:04 PM, Christian Schröder <news+mediawik...@l7010.de> wrote: Hello, i am very new to mediawiki and i am helping an existing installation. We would like to move some pages to a new wiki and tried use the #Redirect directive with interwiki links. This works so far but it issues 302 Found HTTP Status code. We would like to use the status code 301 to help the search engines. Can the #Redirect mechanism be used for this? The documentation at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Redirects did not indicate any solution. I found in the mailing list only this thread from February 2014 https://www.mail-archive.com/mediawiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org/msg13247.html Also not conclusive but leaning in the direction of no, not possible. I tried to skim through the mediawiki codebase and found redirect handling in includes/MediaWiki.php L226 [1]. I cannot understand it fully, but it seems not to be possible. If there is no native/builtin way to do this, is there an extension which might be able to this (redirect individual pages via Status 301 to another interwiki page). thank you Christian [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/source/mediawiki/browse/master/includes/MediaWiki.php;75160bdd3b4ac3642d147cda46e47c809999937d$226 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list To unsubscribe, go to: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
