forward as if it were typed?
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	Tycio
	Jul 21 2021, 18:03

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for example
https://meta.miraheze.org/Miraheze
to
https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Miraheze

I always get a 404 error when I forget to type this and doing /wiki/ each time when manually typing is hard to remember and tedious.

In contrast for example wikia/fandom seems to have that feature automatically apply to all pages, for example:

https://community.fandom.com/Community_Central
to
https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Community_Central

This would be cool to have here too but I'm not sure how hard it would be to implement. Are there downsides?

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Tycio created this task.Jul 21 2021, 18:03

Herald added subscribers: Unknown Object (User), RhinosF1. · View Herald TranscriptJul 21 2021, 18:03

Would need to be done in Varnish or NGINX

RhinosF1 triaged this task as Low priority.Jul 21 2021, 18:05

This would be difficult to implement, I believe. I think (for mediawiki sites) we'd only have to worry about /wiki and /w, but I'd be worried about static.miraheze.org and probably a few other things.

We could alternatively just add a 404 page that has "Did you mean: /wiki/<page_name>" here like Wikipedia does.

Redmin subscribed.Jul 22 2021, 10:59

Unknown Object (User) moved this task from Backlog to Long Term on the MediaWiki (SRE) board.Aug 4 2021, 01:37

In T7683#154396, @Joritochip wrote:

We could alternatively just add a 404 page that has "Did you mean: /wiki/<page_name>" here like Wikipedia does.

This seems like a good idea to pursue rather than automatic forwarding.

John moved this task from Long Term to Short Term on the Infrastructure (SRE) board.Aug 10 2021, 12:27

As long as we make sure to escape the path

In T7683#154390, @Void wrote:

This would be difficult to implement, I believe. I think (for mediawiki sites) we'd only have to worry about /wiki and /w, but I'd be worried about static.miraheze.org and probably a few other things.

anyone have an idea how wikia/fandom was able to implement this?

Reception123 removed a subscriber: Unknown Object (User).Aug 24 2021, 19:05

wrong task; sorry

Reception123 removed Reception123 as the assignee of this task.Aug 25 2021, 09:12

Reception123 subscribed.

This is now deployed.

https://github.com/miraheze/puppet/commit/4fc7fab5db843d6a92bca2cee279e1303141a6d3

https://github.com/miraheze/mw-config/commit/cbe7257c7e89cbacb3b666607196dbc838cc6baa

https://github.com/miraheze/mediawiki/commit/d6797bfa3c8faecfca02c136b86d90abd0597f08

is there a way to auto-redirect URL calls without /wiki/ forward as if it were typed?Closed, ResolvedPublicActions

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is there a way to auto-redirect URL calls without /wiki/ forward as if it were typed?
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