Forum:Moving Page History

Hi, I'm an admin on the Hogwarts RPG Wiki and a user created a category page when they wanted to create a regular page. Is it possible to move the Category page's history to another page? Head.Boy.Hog (Talk To Me)  22:25, May 16, 2011 (UTC)

No, page history disappears when you move the page. There is no workaround that I know of.--


 * Page history isn't deleted with a move, but category pages can't be moved anyway - not easily, at least. It is theoretically possible to export the page, modify the resulting XML to change the category to a mainspace page, and import it back - but you'd have to be thorough and change everything correctly. If the page was just created, your best bet is to just copy and paste the page source.
 * Just use copy/paste to copy the content. Sir Wikilot (talk page) 22:37, May 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem with that is that it intentionally breaks the licencing of the site, as it removes attribution. If you do a copy and paste move, remember to list the original contributors in the edit summary  Random Time  22:39, May 16, 2011 (UTC)
 * It's not that bad, there is only one pagename tag.--AB 00:35, May 17, 2011 (UTC)

I wanted to move the page history. Not the actual page. I was just going to copy and paste then. Could you guys help me with that? Head.Boy.Hog (Talk To Me)  11:19, May 17, 2011 (UTC)