lcrocker(a)nupedia.com wrote:
koyaanisqatsi(a)nupedia.com wrote:
Should we document the moving of a page from one
location to
another in the article's history? e.g. create a new line
in the
history showing the time and user with an autogenerated comment
like "article moved from [[IMDb]] to [[Internet Movie Database]]"?
YES YES YES, we should do that. Should be pretty
straightforward.
That's easy for you to say :-)
Article histories are not stored as change records; they are
constructed from stored revisions. Moving an article doesn't
create a revision--
Therein the reason they don't currently show up in the history.
it actually renames the article record and
all its revision records, so as far as the database is concerned
the article has /always/ had the new name--it doesn't know any
different.
To keep a log of moves would require a new table to record them,
and the changing the article history list to use that new table.
Not a major obstacle, but not a quickie either.
You misunderstand; when moving an article, simply *save* a new revision
of it with a summary field of "Renamed from X". Thus, it shows up in the
history list because there is a new revision.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)