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New special page redirect Special:RequestWikiEdit in RequestWiki (CreateWiki)
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Issue: Previously, prior to the useful improvements to CreateWiki, there were two separate special pages, Special:RequestWikiEdit and Special:RequestWikiQueue, which performed separated but related functions related to requesting and created wikis. Special:RequestWikiEdit existed until recently, but I just noticed it was removed without any discussion, at least with wiki creators or administrators. Ordinarily, I'm all for eliminating unnecessary special pages or regular pages, for that matter, but there are a significant number of pages which link to either Special:RequestWikiEdit or Special:RequestWikiEdit/##### (where ##### represents the value of the request ID) (mainly on Meta, obviously), with an equally high number of now unhelpful redlinks.

Proposed remedy: So, I'm hoping we can create a new special page redirect in RequestWiki/CreateWiki to redirect Special:RequestWikiEdit to Special:RequestWikiQueue and, conversely, Special:RequestWikiEdit/##### to Special:RequestWikiQueue/##### (where ##### represents the value of the request ID), as I do know it is quite straightforward to create a special page redirect as MediaWiki has many of them

@Universal_Omega, feel free to assign this task to yourself, if you wish. I would've done it somewhat BOLDly, as I know you wouldn't mind.

Thanks.

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Dmehus triaged this task as Normal priority.Nov 13 2020, 15:25
Dmehus created this task.

Moving this to features board, but feel free to change to bugs if desired.

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In order to do this, we'd have to create a new file called CreateWiki.alias.php and define it afaik, though I'm not sure if the redirect would include the content after the /.@John ?

@Reception123 Excellent, and even the request ID will redirect correctly, which is perhaps how these special page alias redirects work in that they incorporate any parameter specified in the special page for which they are aliasing in the redirect. For your efforts, I have awarded this, for the first time ever, the Mountain of Wealth token, rather than the usual thumbs up, cup of coffee, or haypence. :)

Thanks :) though it was quite easy