CreateRedirect is a special page extension that eases creation of redirects. It displays a form that only asks for the origin page and the destination page, and then saves the page.
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May 8 2025
The RedirectManager extension might also be suitable for functionality like this.
Apr 10 2025
This is a form for humans, why would bots be using it? They should use API.
Apr 9 2025
May 12 2024
This extension only adds this link once (via SidebarBeforeOutput hook).
Jul 12 2023
Apr 21 2022
@sbassett: assigned
Apr 18 2022
Mitre ref CVE Request 1252146 for CVE ID Request
That's fine. I'm only used to GitHub's CVE process. If there's anyway we can help you, do let me know.
I've got this tracked for the next supplemental security release here: T305209. We'll plan to request a CVE for it by the end of this quarter (June 2022) though if anybody else would like to handle that sooner, that's fine. Looks like the backports are all merged as well, so that's good. I'm going to resolve this for now since I don't believe there's anything else actionable at this time.
Apr 17 2022
Apr 14 2022
Dec 20 2021
Dec 12 2021
Change 745219 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/CreateRedirect@master] Relicense from LGPL3 to GPL3
Dec 8 2021
Change 745219 had a related patch set uploaded (by Edward Chernenko; author: Edward Chernenko):
[mediawiki/extensions/CreateRedirect@master] Relicense from LGPL3 to GPL3
Dec 6 2021
(IANAL of course) My take is that it depends on whether you consider you rewrite to be a derivative (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivative_work) or fully your work from scratch. If it's a derivative, then your code is also LGPL-3.0-or-later. If it's not a derivative, you can pick whatever license you want.
it depends how much original code is left?
If I interpret https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/76578 correctly, Marco Zafra (Digiku) is the original author. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAuth?target=Digiku shows they only had on-wiki edits on https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Digiku years ago (and no activity on Gerrit as we only introduced that in 2012). IANAL but I assume it depends how much original code is left?
Oct 17 2021
Aug 6 2021
Change 709570 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/core@master] SkinTemplateToolboxEndHook is removed
Aug 3 2021
Change 709570 had a related patch set uploaded (by Jdlrobson; author: Jdlrobson):
[mediawiki/core@master] SkinTemplateToolboxEndHook is removed
Jul 13 2021
Jul 7 2021
Apr 20 2021
Change 681162 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/LanguageSelector@REL1_36] [LanguageSelector] Cleanup deprecated hooks and convert to ExtensionRegistry
Change 680694 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/LanguageSelector@master] [LanguageSelector] Cleanup deprecated hooks and convert to ExtensionRegistry
Change 681162 had a related patch set uploaded (by Universal Omega; author: Universal Omega):
[mediawiki/extensions/LanguageSelector@REL1_36] [LanguageSelector] Cleanup deprecated hooks and convert to ExtensionRegistry
Apr 18 2021
Change 657881 abandoned by Jdlrobson:
[mediawiki/extensions/LanguageSelector@master] SkinTemplateOutputPageBeforeExec and SkinTemplateToolboxEnd are deprecated
Reason:
great :)
Apr 17 2021
Change 680694 had a related patch set uploaded (by Universal Omega; author: Universal Omega):
[mediawiki/extensions/LanguageSelector@master] [LanguageSelector] Cleanup deprecated hooks and convert to ExtensionRegistry
Mar 17 2021
Change 673104 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/skins/Anisa@master] Use updated/core wodgits and bump required mw version to 1.35
Change 673104 had a related patch set uploaded (by Isarra; owner: Isarra):
[mediawiki/skins/Anisa@master] Use updated/core wodgits and bump required mw version to 1.35
