Topic on Talk:Phabricator/Help

Suggestions for improvements to page movement utilities

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Summary by AKlapper (WMF)

Off-topic as not about Phabricator, see How to report a bug instead

Anthony Appleyard (talkcontribs)
  • After my experiences with history-merging, I feel that these enhancements (perhaps for use only by admins) to Wikipedia's software would be useful:-
    1. Selective delete of edits. That would avoid much waste of administrator time and internet time and Wikipedia server time deleting the whole of a long edit history and then undeleting most of the edits, merely to delete a few of the edits. In preliminaries to history-merging, that includes needing to temporarily delete late edits (often a bot edit) added to the source after the cut-and-paste event, and edits (redirects and miscellaneous) that were at the destination's name before the cut-and-paste event.
    2. Selective move of edits.
    3. Ability to move (move-all or selective) deleted edits while keeping them deleted. That (for example) would make it much easier to extract deleted edits out from under a long non-deleted edit history. Pre-existing deleted en:WP:Parallel histories edits sitting under a visible non-deleted edit history are a common trap and landmine when carrying out operations that need temporary deleting of a page.
    4. Idea for enhancements for en:Special:MergeHistory: Option whether or not to leave a redirect where the source was.
    5. Idea for enhancements for en:Special:MergeHistory: Option to call for a list of edits of the destination, letting the user mark "first edit which is to be kept": edits before that would be deleted. After obeying that, the list of movable source edits would have to be updated and re-displayed.
    6. If a user is looking at an old edit of a non-deleted page history, ability for him to click once on a clickable and thus step to the previous or next non-deleted edit of that page.
    7. If an administrator is looking at an edit of a deleted page history, ability for him to click once on a clickable and thus step to the previous or next deleted edit of that page.
AKlapper (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Hi and welcome to the help page for the Phabricator software. Your comment above seems to be about the MediaWiki software instead. If you have specific enhancement requests, please see and follow How to report a bug (one request per task only, please). Thanks!