"Chad" <innocentkil...@gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:5924f50a0902020609q542047cfme84b9237eec38...@mail.gmail.com...
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 8:43 AM, Russell Blau <russb...@hotmail.com> wrote:
...
>> 3)  How can the users (not sysadmins) of a given wiki determine what the
>> value of $wgMaxRedirects is for their wiki?  In particular, what value is
>> being used currently on enwiki and other WMF projects?
>
> The defaults for every setting are available for viewing on Mediawiki.org
> For this setting, the default appears to be 1, meaning that we keep long-
> standing behavior for the default. As for seeing your current settings, 
> you
> can check out the configuration files at [1].
...
> [1] - http://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/ - CommonSettings and 
> InitialiseSettings
> are the two places to look.

Chad: AFAICT, the default value of $wgMaxRedirects is 1 and is not changed 
in any of the WMF settings files you pointed me to.  Still, the software is 
bypassing double-redirects on enwiki as of this morning; check out 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubya for an example.  Perhaps a bug?

Russ




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