User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap.js
script
Ahecht's Pageswap GUI is a script that allows a user to
swap the histories of two pages (with reasonable restrictions), sometimes known as a history swap or a round-robin move. This script was originally based on
User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap, but has been modified to add a graphical interface and has added features for easier usage in answering
requested moves. The script requires the user to have suppressredirect
and move-subpages
rights. The script will add a "Swap" tab to the top of the page near the "new section" button (or to the tools menu in Vector 2022), as well as a "Swap" link within "The page cannot be moved" error messages.
To use this script: Copy the line below, then [[
click here]], paste the line, and hit Publish changes.
{{
subst:Iusc|User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap.js|User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap}}
- Report any issues to me,
Ahecht.
Features
This script contains all the features of Andy's script, plus the following:
- Form-based user interface. Options are selected on a modified version of the page move form instead of in dialog boxes (use
v1.5.2 if you prefer the dialog-based version).
- Run from
Special:MovePage. Pages can be swapped directly from the "name already exists" error message at
Special:MovePage, using the previously entered page name and reason.
- Create redlinked talk pages. When two pages swapped and one doesn't have a talk page, the script will prompt to create the missing talk page as a redirect.
- Fix self-redirects. When a redirect is swapped with its target, the script will update the redirect to the new title.
- Open
Special:Contributions. After swapping, the script prompts to open the contributions page, to make checking for needed post-move cleanup easier.
Usage
- Go to the page to be swapped (i.e. page A as described at
WP:PMVR#rr). At the top of the page, there should be an additional option to "Swap" (right below "Move" or "Purge", it may be hidden under the "More" or "Tools" menu). Click "Swap".
- You can also swap pages directly from
Special:MovePage where the target page already exists. Once you've attempted to move a page and gotten the red "The page could not be moved" error box, either choose "Swap" from the top of the page as described above or click on the swap link in the error message. This also works when clicking the "move" link on a requested move.
- A modified version of
Special:MovePage will load with a Swap form. Fill out the old and new titles and click "Swap pages" (the button will be disabled if either page title is blank or the two titles match).
- The script will run through it's pre-move checks and display a summary of the move. Click "Confirm" to perform the move.
- (Manually perform
step 4 of the round-robin move if necessary, including correcting any moved redirects, especially on subpages, and creating new redlinked talk pages if necessary. The tool will prompt you to open your contributions to assist with this.)
- (Manually perform any necessary
post-move cleanup.)
Options
Editors can specify a default move reason via moveReasonDefault in
their common.js above the line that loads pageswap. This is helpful for those who use pageswap who frequently perform similar actions with the same move summary (For example, var moveReasonDefault = "Requested at [[WP:RMTR]]";
). If the swap is initiated from
Special:MovePage with a pre-filled reason, that reason will be used as the default.
Editors can have the post-move cleanup options ("Leave redirect to new talk page" and "Fix self redirects") default to unchecked by adding var pagemoveDoPostMoveCleanup = false;
in
their common.js above the line that loads pageswap. Even when these options are checked, editors will still have to correct other issues listed in
§ Out of scope themselves.
Description
Because the
round-robin move involves three distinct moves, in which each move step might fail for legitimate reasons, (target of a subpage is
create-protected, a talk page is move-protected, or a target namespaces does not have subpages enabled, the target doesn't actually exist, etc) much of the script involves various checks to try to ensure that the three moves can happen unimpeded to the best of its ability. The script will detect the existence of talk pages and subpages and prompt the user, and will prompt to create red-linked talk pages. The script will not move subpages if the number of subpages of a namespace exceeds 100 pages. (In this case, attempt to perform the move manually, moving batches of 100 at a time.)
Editors can specify a default move reason (see "Options" section above). If the swap is initiated from
Special:MovePage with a pre-filled reason, that reason will be used as the default.
The prefix for the intermediate title (C) used for page B (as described at
WP:PMVR#rr) is hard-coded as "Draft:Move/"
per convention.
Page swapping is enabled for most namespaces that can handle them. The ability to swap a page in a subject space with one in a talk space is currently disabled. Users who are unable to suppressredirect
or move-subpages
have the swap functionality disabled.
Future changes
Have any suggestions for the scripts? Please leave a message on my
talk page.
To do
- Allow post-move cleanup (fixing self-redirects, creating red-linked talk pages) on subpages.
- Consolidate API requests in
doPostMoveCleanup()
- Allow specifying RCat
Out of scope
- Checking template/file namespace for incoming links to original title
- Correcting redirects unrelated to the source page
- Correcting or retargeting any redirects on subpages
- Create newly red-linked subject / subpages as redirects
- Retargeting
soft redirects
- Other post-move cleanup (editnotices, lede/dab/hatnote corrections). These actions should be performed post-move manually.
Script
The live script is at
User:Ahecht/Scripts/pageswap.js. Latest version published on May 28, 2024.
Version history
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- v1
- 1.0.0, 17 December 2018: Direct copy from
User:Andy M. Wang/pageswap.js v1.6.1.2018.0920.
- 1.1.0, 19 December 2018: Work from
Special:MovePage and modify error message on that page to include swap link, use reason from move page as default.
- 1.2.0, 21 December 2018: Add option for post-move cleanup, implement creating red-linked talk page as part of cleanup.
- 1.3.0, 11 February 2019: Redo workflow to avoid redundant messages. Prompt to open
Special:Contributions for post-move cleanup.
- 1.3.1, 23 February 2019: Make post-move cleanup default.
- 1.3.2, 11 March 2019: Check if move page has proper parameters, use old page title as default new page title.
- 1.3.3, 16 December 2020: Read page names and reasons from form fields in addition to URL so it works from any move page, not just ones linked from
WP:RM/TR.
- 1.3.4, 9 January 2021: Fix reading destination from form field if destination is not in article namespace.
- 1.4.0, 12 January 2021: Correct self redirects resulting from swapping a redirect page and its target.
- 1.5.0, 24 May 2021: Use
mw:Bubble notifications to provide status updates, and instead of pop-ups for error messages.
- 1.5.1, 26 April 2022: Update to no longer rely on the
errorbox class on
Special:MovePage per
phab:T300314.
-
1.5.2, 25 October 2022: Warn about subpages that may need updating.
- v2
- 2.0.0, 17 May 2023: Redo workflow to be form based instead of dialogue based. Change main script into a stub that loads pageswap-core.js only when needed.
- 2.0.1, 30 September 2023: Add
Special:WhatLinksHere links to status message
- 2.0.2, 25 October 2023: Add warning if source page was moved within the last hour
- 2.0.3, 17 February 2024: Hide "could not be moved" error message once swap form is loaded.
- 2.0.4, 13 March 2024: Use "redirect" and "new" classes in links, add "nofollow" to redirect links.
- 2.0.5, 1 April 2024: Disable "Move talk" box if source or target is already a talk page, fix bug when swapping out of the "Draft talk" namespace.
- 2.0.6, 18 April 2024: Fix regression from 2.0.5 that caused some talk pages to incorrectly be detected as immovable.
- 2.0.7, 6 May 2024: Fix regression from 2.0.5 that cause subpage messages to be incorrect for pages outside the article namespace.
- 2.1.0, 13 May 2024: Redo status message code to make sure messages appear in the correct order, use {{
RCat shell}} when creating redirects.
- 2.2.0, 27 May 2024: Replace wikilink parsing code with calls to the
Mediawiki parse API.
- 2.2.1, 28 May 2024: Fix display of subpage redirects, add additional notices for moves within the last day and last 30 days
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See also