Codex topics (and previous page versions) should have a canonical URL tag

[jonoaldersonwp]

E.g., ​https://codex.wordpress.org/Tentang_WordPress?a=b to ​https://codex.wordpress.org/Tentang_WordPress

​https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress?x=y to ​https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

​https://codex.wordpress.org/index.php?title=Installing_WordPress&oldid=163278 to ​https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

[dd32]

Just noting that this is the ​$wgEnableCanonicalServerLink MediaWiki configuration.

Historical revisions of a page will have the canonical set to the currently published page, 404's will be set to the 404 url, query args are excluded unless it's an index.php?... request.

Combined with the noindex requests elsewhere that'll probably cover most bases.

[jonoaldersonwp]

Ah, enabling that would be a very positive step!

[dd32]

Fixed via r10701-codex pending deploy.

$wgEnableCanonicalServerLink turned out not to be compatible with our codex theme, so I implemented the same kind of logic, but limited to pages that exist.

[jonoaldersonwp]

This is done!