Forum:Renaming forums

I want to rename my forum (main forum plus "help desk" and "watercooler". Is it simply a case of moving those pages, or something more complicated? I tried it on another wiki and it got a little messed up - Kwenn 17:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC) (admin at Spaced-out wiki)
 * Which wiki is this at?--Imaginationac (Talk | Edits | [mailto:imaginationac@gmail.com Email]) 23:32, 10 July 2007 (UTC)


 * He was referring to http://spacedout.wikia.com. I've added the new forum for him.--Kirk 01:19, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

Moving a forum is a little tricky to do because there are multiple pages involved.

Here's an example where Watercooler would be renamed to Animepedia Discussion (Basically what I do to all WGEP wiki, since we use a different set of standard forum names) As you can see renaming a forum is a bit of a task to do... ~ NOTASTAFF Daniel Friesen (DanTMan, Nadir Seen Fire) (talk) tricks Jul 11, 2007 @ 02:26 (UTC)
 * On the Forum:Index the 2 occurrences of Watercooler would be changed to Animepedia Discussion.
 * The content from Category:Watercooler would be copied into Category:Animepedia Discussion and the link would be altered to fit the new name. Category:Watercooler would then be deleted.
 * Forum:Watercooler would be moved to Forum:Animepedia Discussion and it would be tweaked to fit the new name.
 * Template:Forumheader/Watercooler would be moved to Template:Forumheader/Animepedia Discussion and the occurrence of Watercooler in it would be changed to Animepedia Discussion.
 * The Forum:Welcome to the watercooler would be moved to Forum:Welcome to the animepedia discussion and every occurrence of Watercooler in it would be changed to Animepedia Discussion.
 * Finally, on every forum which used to be in the Watercooler forum, the Watercooler in the Forumheader template would be changed to Animepedia Discussion.

Alternative - just create a new one with links to old?
Easier? And nearly as good? We did that on Genealogy: after the new Forums were invented. Really useful items from the old Watercooler were copied into the new forum as new items. The others just sit available for browsing by people who use the "backlink". Robin Patterson 02:45, 11 July 2007 (UTC)