Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-24155515-20150921223032/@comment-24155515-20150922003007

The stopgap solution wouldn't fix my problem since my issue was keeping the attribution of the category page's history itself. :P I'd already moved all the pages in the cat with my bot (actually the easiest bot run I've ever had XD) but when I went to move the category, it was like "no" and I was like ಠ_ಠ. (Then again, I suppose I should've taken the hint when there was no move tab instead of forcing it into the move page in the URL. XP)

I do think the infrastructure for categories could (or should) be changed to make it easier for your average layman without a lot of time on their hands to move a large category, but I was mainly wondering if the current category-moving inability was staff-imposed (since the only other MW wiki I know, Wikipedia, let me into the move page on a category with no problem) or software-imposed (since Wikipedia is currently running 1.26 and I have no idea if it had this issue back on 1.19).

...At any rate, I've just copy-paste moved and added a redirect at the old category so the old history's not deleted. Which is about the best I could do here, I suppose.