[Mediawiki-l] Categories and #REDIRECT?

Fri Apr 15 16:19:31 UTC 2005

On 15 Apr 2005, at 08:39, Uwe Baumbach wrote:

>> Is there any way to make redirected pages show up in a Category,
>> preferably the same one(s) as the page it redirects to?
>
> Try to write the category link(s) IN THE SAME LINE after the redirect 
> statement only after a blank, like this:
>
> #REDIRECT [[Redirectee]] [[category:MyCategory1]]  
> [[category:MyCategory2]]
>
> I don't know of which version your MediaWiki is, in our oldest (!) 
> 1.3.0Beta1 it works.

Thank you, Uwe! That works in 1.4b5 just fine!

I'm copying this to the entire list, since no one else thought it could 
be done without moving to 1.5 development.

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