https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38761
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Bug #: 38761
Summary: Swapping a page with its redirect page
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Page editing
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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I often find the need to swap two pages where one page is redirect to the other
one.
The most occurrences are with pages about "imported" topics - i.e. topics which
originally conceptualize in different languages, common in non-English
Wikipedia - since in creation of the page there is often unclear how to call
that particular topic, so often a term is chosen arbitrarily or the original
foreign word is used, then various different terms for the topic are created
into pages redirecting to the first page. After awhile one of the term become
official or the most common one that often not the one chosen for first page.
Other occurrences will be when meaning of words drifted overtime, or new
connotation emerge for existing word, make the previous term for the topic
become less relevant.
Currently this have to be done through administrator "swap" feature, which is
cumbersome and ineffective, since the administrator not an expert on the
subject. So I do found many pages stuck in its incorrect name, and no easy way
to fix it.
Having this feature will be fully consistent with the rule of page moving since
the old page will become a redirect to the new page. So - although I have no
objection of unconditional page swapping by user - if abiding with page moving
rule is necessary to have it as user's feature, then have a page swapping
feature for user limited to the case where one of the page is are redirect to
the other will be a great improvement.
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