New subject: [Mediawiki-l] Suggestion to add to code: TitleMoveHook

15 Dec 2008

There's no code that can interrupt a Title Move. I have added a little snippet into
Title.php that does this and allows me to stop a user from doing a Title Move under many
userful conditions. One of them includes monitoring how many title moves they're doing
in a certain amount of amount of time. That helps stop Page-move vandalism and has saved
my wiki many times.
The Page Edit hook exists which is useful in a similiar way, but there was no hook for
Title Move. Do the developers of MW think this Title Move hook is a good idea perhaps to
include in the default code? Its only a few lines of code.
On line 2517 of /includes/Title.php, we have:
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$pageid = $this->getArticleID();  
if( $nt->exists() ) {
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Between these two lines of code, I have included the following (in bold):
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$pageid = $this->getArticleID();

  global $wgUser;
  $fname = 'Article::MoveArticle';
  wfProfileIn( $fname );
       if( !wfRunHooks( 'TitleMove', array( &$this, &$wgUser, &$nt,
NULL ) ) ) {
   wfDebug( "$fname: TitleMove hook aborted move!\n" );
   wfProfileOut( $fname );
   return false;
  }
if( $nt->exists() ) {
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