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Allow CirrusSearch to search including or excluding redirects (Community Wishlist/W356)

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Description

CirrusSearch is an extremely useful tool for doing bot edits or looking at potential problems with wikitext. As documented in phab:T204089, currently most keywords do not allow searching redirects or excluding redirects from the search. It would be good to introduce a new keyword that would either enable or disable searching through redirects, and to make the redirect handling in CirrusSearch searches more consistent in general.

As can be seen in the task by the amount of tokens for this feature, this is a very requested feature, so after a conversation with Seddon about CommWish process, I thought this can be a good test for its usefulness as opposed to just filing a Phabricator task.

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Unassigned

Type of wish
System change
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Affected users

Everyone, but particularly technically proficient users and bot authors

Phabricator tasks
Other details
  • Created: 14:55, 24 January 2025
  • Last updated: 23:49, 10 October 2025
  • Author: Stjn (talk)
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This wish currently has 2 supporters. Voting for this wish is open until it is completed.

Supporters of this wish
Support Pppery (talk) 15:56, 10 October 2025
Support Nardog (talk) 09:40, 22 October 2025