We have a new way redirects are handled now. The standard mediawiki way to do a redirect is to show the URL of the redirecting page with the text of the destination page, and a link back (redirected from Example.com). The problem, we think, is that search engines aren’t too keen on having the (mostly) same content on two different pages. 
So now, when you click on Community, you’re browser will actually show AboutUsCommunity in both URL and content. This means people will bookmark the canonical url, not the shortcut one, which is good for our readers and good for our SEO. It also means that once the search engines catch up, Community won’t appear at all anymore in search results.
So now that the page doesn’t tell you it was redirected, how do you update redirects that need to change? In the site navigation menus, we now have What redirects here, which gives you a list of all redirects to that page, and clicking on the links there will allow you to edit the redirecting page that’s no longer seen by a search engine.
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