Topic on Manual talk:Short URL/Apache

Noticed that mediawiki.org and wikipedia.org have complete redirect: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Article goes directly to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Article

On a normal wiki with rewrite rules that doesn't happen.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

It works for me since MediaWiki 1.26. I don't see this behavior in MediaWiki 1.25. Check if your MediaWiki is 1.26 or greater.