That won't work, but in the middle you can use a Soft redirect template like on 
mediawiki.org

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Template:Soft_redirect
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On Nov 7, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Jan Steinman wrote:

> I'm using MediaWiki 1.16.2. (Yea, I know. But it's running so well, and every 
> time I've upgraded, it's cost me a couple days of mop-up.)
> 
> I have a number of pages in the format "Something, YYYY" or "YYYY something," 
> such as "Budget, 2012" or "2012 harvest".
> 
> I have a number of #REDIRECT pages like "Current budget" that point to (for 
> example) "Budget, 2012". Presently, I manually update them at year-end.
> 
> I find that I cannot put {{CURRENTYEAR}} in the #REDIRECT link, such as:
>       #REDIRECT [[Budget, {{CURRENTYEAR}}]]
> 
> Why not? Such links work elsewhere!
> 
> When I do so, the redirect no longer works, and someone clicking on "Current 
> budget" (for example) ends up on the redirect page, rather than the page 
> being pointed to by the #REDIRECT.
> 
> Is this a bug I should report? Is there some work-around? Does it work 
> properly in newer versions? (Could be what I need to upgrade... :-)
> 
> Any other hints to get it to do what I want?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
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