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 Jamie Thingelstad [email protected] mobile: 612-810-3699 find me on AIM Twitter Facebook LinkedIn 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! > > ---------------- > :::: Ladybug, ladybug, Look to your stern! Your house is on fire, Your > children will burn! So jump ye and sing, for The very first time The four > lines above Have been put into rhyme. -- Walt Kelly > :::: Jan Steinman, EcoReality Co-op :::: > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MediaWiki-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l
