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)
 * Understand this: The page history is made up from the version history. The version history is a chronological series of documents, each one with their editor assigned to them. If you copy and paste, you will do so only from the latest version, and you will overwrite the author assignment with your own nickname. If you want to preserve the author history, you'll need to move a page. But this is not possible for category pages. Instead, the only thing you can do is to export the page as an xml (with more than just the last revision), edit its page title to a page name that does not exist yet (you would else later on mix version histories = eff things up seriously), preferably not in the "Category:" namespace. Lastly, import the whole thing back into the wiki again.--AB 22:14, May 17, 2011 (UTC)