[Fedora Infrastructure] #3525: New mediawiki redirect behaviour is annoying

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#3525: New mediawiki redirect behaviour is annoying
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  Reporter:  adamwill     |      Owner:  webmaster
      Type:  annoyance    |     Status:  new
  Priority:  minor        |  Milestone:  HANDWAVY-FUTURE
 Component:  Web Content  |    Version:
  Severity:  Normal       |   Keywords:
Blocked By:               |   Blocking:
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 Seems like mediawiki's redirect behaviour changed after a recent upgrade.
 Unfortunately I much preferred the old behaviour.

 Previously, if you hit a redirect, the displayed URL would be just the URL
 of the redirected-to page, and there was a little link at the top to the
 non-redirected version of the page you were redirected from.

 So I could go to
 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test and
 I'd wind up at the apparent URL
 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_18_Beta_TC4_Install
 (which I could handily copy-and-paste somewhere, as I *frequently* do).
 Now I wind up at
 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Fedora_18_Beta_TC4_Install?rd=Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
 , and I have to chop off the last part of that if I want to paste it
 anywhere and have it look remotely clean.

 The other consequence is even more annoying - there is now no easy way
 that I can find to get to the actual redirection page. Previously there
 was a little link you could click if you oh say *wanted to change what
 page the redirect pointed to* - which we do with the Current_XXX_Test and
 Current_Test_Day redirects all the time. Now there isn't; I've looked and
 looked but I don't see anything. You have to know or remember that, to
 visit a redirect page without getting redirected, you have to enter the
 URL and manually append ?redirect=no . That sucks.

 Is it possible to go back to the old behaviour? Does MW have a config
 option for this?

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