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m (New page: '''Moving a page''' means giving the page another name. The page history is then attached to a new name. Another page with the old name is created and automatically [[Help:Redirect|redirec...) |
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*'''move:''' move the contents and the page history to a new page; change the old page into a redirect; change the page history into one that only records the renaming. | *'''move:''' move the contents and the page history to a new page; change the old page into a redirect; change the page history into one that only records the renaming. | ||
Since the system marks the page with the old name as new page, it applies the first of the two models. (The entry in the | Since the system marks the page with the old name as new page, it applies the first of the two models. (The entry in the page table connects a new page name to the page ID. The revision table just gets entries about the move, nothing else, because the relation between page ID and revision IDs remains the same.) This model avoids "changing the history", a kind of "historical revisionism". | ||
==Automating multiple page moves== | ==Automating multiple page moves== | ||
As of January 2008, a multiple page move facility is not available within the MediaWiki software which powers Wikipedia. It is possible that this facility could be implemented with a bot similar to the bots previously used to repair multiple level redirects. No bot is yet known to implement this functionality robustly. A bot would be able to automate link repair for inbound links to the moved pages, sparing much of the manual labour. | As of January 2008, a multiple page move facility is not available within the MediaWiki software which powers Wikipedia. It is possible that this facility could be implemented with a bot similar to the bots previously used to repair multiple level redirects. No bot is yet known to implement this functionality robustly. A bot would be able to automate link repair for inbound links to the moved pages, sparing much of the manual labour. | ||