koyaanisqatsi@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--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.