Redirects should be followed when posting to help desk
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	Catrope
	Oct 13 2020, 8:01 PM

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Configure Project:Help desk to be the help desk
Move Project:Help desk to Help:Help desk (or manually make Project:Help desk a redirect to Help:Help desk)
Post a question to the help desk using the help panel

You would expect the redirect to be followed and the question to be posted to Help:Help desk, but instead, we blindly add the question to the bottom of Project:Help desk, which ends up looking like:

#REDIRECT [[Help:Help desk]]

== Question from Newbie on Pagename ==
Question here --Newbie October 13, 2020 at 20:01 UTC

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Handle redirects in QuestionPoster	mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments	master	+86 -25

Customize query in gerrit

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Mentioned In: T265214: Change Growth features parameters on Portuguese Wikipedia
Mentioned Here: T222206: Homepage: If a talk page containing a question is deleted, it causes fatal error for all newbies

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Catrope created this task.Oct 13 2020, 8:01 PM

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Catrope mentioned this in T265214: Change Growth features parameters on Portuguese Wikipedia.Oct 13 2020, 8:01 PM

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I feel like we discussed this ~1-2 years ago and deliberately implemented in this way, but I don't remember why. And it's possible I am misremembering because I didn't find anything in phabricator to support this. The closest I could find is T222206#5150582 but that issue is about page deletion. I agree that following redirects makes sense.

Change 634123 had a related patch set uploaded (by Gergő Tisza; owner: Gergő Tisza):
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Handle redirects in QuestionPoster

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/634123

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Oct 14 2020, 11:44 PM

Tgr moved this task from In Progress to Code Review on the Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)) board.Oct 15 2020, 9:33 AM

Change 634123 merged by jenkins-bot:
[mediawiki/extensions/GrowthExperiments@master] Handle redirects in QuestionPoster

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/634123

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kostajh moved this task from Code Review to QA on the Growth-Team (Sprint 0 (Growth Team)) board.Oct 19 2020, 11:45 AM