Manual:fixDoubleRedirects.php

MediaWiki file: fixDoubleRedirects.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.42.3 • 1.41.4 • 1.39.10
Classes:	FixDoubleRedirects

Details

fixDoubleRedirects.php file is a maintenance script located in the maintenance directory that can be used to fix double redirects. The edits will be attributed to the user named in the Double-redirect-fixer message (User:Redirect fixer on English wikis by default). Edits made by this script are not shown on Special:RecentChanges, but they do appear in that user's contributions. The edit summary comes from the Double-redirect-fixed-maintenance message.

This script was introduced in MediaWiki 1.18 (r81408) and is written for that version. For a version that runs on older MediaWiki versions (tested on 1.16), see here.

Usage

Option/Parameter	Description
--async	Don't fix anything directly, just queue the jobs
--dry-run	Perform a dry run, fix nothing
--title=page	Fix only redirects pointing to the given page

See also

• $wgFixDoubleRedirects