Talk:Crash

To User:PiotrGrochowski - why are we making a page that crashes? This is not a bug, this is just the way MediaWiki works. If you make a page redirect to itself, it will redirect to itself. It doesn't really "crash" my browser or anything, I just get a note that there's a redirect loop. What is the point of making this page? Mike Battaglia (talk) 13:45, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

If users want to see a crash page, they can thanks to me. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 16:23, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

It works by the way interlanguage travel works. This redirect redirects to :en:Crash, and interlanguage travel travels to this site ignoring instructions like &redirect=no. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 16:38, 19 September 2018 (UTC)

OK. This is a MediaWiki bug and there is very little we can do about it other than to deliberately get rid of such circular redirects if they arise. We don't want a page that intentionally crashes people's browsers, and would like to get rid of this. Mike Battaglia (talk) 06:19, 20 September 2018 (UTC)

It's a hard redirect. Wiki help#Redirects now shows the MediaWiki code for a hard redirect. It is important for compatibility of the migration, where double redirects were hard redirects, and thanks to this feature bug we can have hard redirects in the migration, although they aren't coded into the FREEZE engine. 2 1 is now a hard redirect to 2/1, which is a regular redirect to Octave. Similarly with 531441 524288. PiotrGrochowski (talk) 14:31, 20 September 2018 (UTC)