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Change subject: Adding option of not deleting the old cat, It was partially implemented already ......................................................................
Adding option of not deleting the old cat, It was partially implemented already
Bug: 55291 Change-Id: I76b512acb692598a6a9528a162085e5ee330ffb8 --- M category.py 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Approvals: Xqt: Looks good to me, approved jenkins-bot: Verified
diff --git a/category.py b/category.py index e1bb0ad..b9471a1 100644 --- a/category.py +++ b/category.py @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ Options for "move" action: * -hist - Creates a nice wikitable on the talk page of target category that contains detailed page history of the source category. + * -nodelete - Don't delete the old category after move
Options for several actions: * -rebuild - reset the database @@ -885,6 +886,7 @@ sort_by_last_name = False restore = False create_pages = False + deleteEmptySourceCat = True for arg in pywikibot.handleArgs(*args): if arg == 'add': action = 'add' @@ -898,6 +900,8 @@ action = 'tree' elif arg == 'listify': action = 'listify' + elif arg =='-nodelete': + deleteEmptySourceCat = False elif arg == '-person': sort_by_last_name = True elif arg == '-rebuild': @@ -971,8 +975,9 @@ newCatTitle = pywikibot.input( u'Please enter the new name of the category:') bot = CategoryMoveRobot(oldCatTitle, newCatTitle, batchMode, - editSummary, inPlace, titleRegex=titleRegex, - withHistory=withHistory) + editSummary, inPlace, + deleteEmptySourceCat=deleteEmptySourceCat, + titleRegex=titleRegex, withHistory=withHistory) bot.run() elif action == 'tidy': catTitle = pywikibot.input(u'Which category do you want to tidy up?')