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TASK DESCRIPTION The following is a user request from one of the two most active CFD contributors on the English Wikipedia. CFD category moves currently use the following format for their edit summary when editing articles that are in said categories (note that several of these would be wikilinked): > Robot - Moving category Beverage companies disestablished in 1950 to Category:Food and drink companies disestablished in 1950 per CFD at Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2016_February_1. That's all well and good. The bot also uses that edit summary for the move of the category itself, which used to be good way back when category moves were handled by copy-pasting the contents of the page. However, some years back, MediaWiki was changed to allow actual moves of the category pages themselves, and Pywikibot was updated to accommodate this. Subsequently, automatically generated edit summaries of the following form: > Cydebot moved page Category:Food companies by year of establishment to Category:Food and drink companies by year of establishment: were automatically prepended to the edit summary. And if that's too long, what's left is truncated. So you end up with the following format: > Cydebot moved page Category:Food companies by year of establishment to Category:Food and drink companies by year of establishment: Robot - Moving category Food companies by year of establishment to [[:Category:Food and drink companies by year o... Which repeats the same information twice, and the incredibly important link to the actual CFD discussion page gets truncated. So the user request is to use better edit summaries for the actual category moves themselves, in a way that does not duplicate information and that does retain the all-important CFD discussion link. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T135298 WORKBOARD https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/project/board/93/ EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: Cyde Cc: Aklapper, Zppix, pywikibot-bugs-list, Cyde _______________________________________________ pywikibot-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikibot-bugs
