Manual:moveBatch.php

MediaWiki file: moveBatch.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.43.1 • 1.42.6 • 1.39.12
Classes:	MoveBatch

Details

moveBatch.php file is a maintenance script to move (rename) a batch of pages. If the target page already exist it will fail with an error message.

Usage

Option/Parameter	Description
-u ‎<user>	Username that will be shown in the log entries. If left empty, moves will be attributed to the user called Move page script.
-r ‎<reason>	Reason for moves, enclose in "…" if it contains spaces. If empty, no reason will be shown in the logs.
-i ‎<interval>	Number of seconds to sleep after each move. If empty, defaults to 0.
--noredirects	Suppress creation of redirects
‎<listfile>	File should contain lines of text in the following format: existing name 1|new name 1 existing name 2|new name 2 existing name 3|new name 3

Example

In MediaWiki version 1.39.12 and earlier, you must invoke maintenance scripts using php maintenance/scriptName.php instead of php maintenance/run.php scriptName.

Linux

php maintenance/run.php moveBatch --u=user --r=reason --noredirects /path/to/listfile.txt

Parameters need to be addressed with -- and filled with = as shown in the example above.

Windows

• Ensure that MediaWiki is running.
• Open Command Prompt by pressing ⊞ Win+R, typing cmd, and presing ↵ Enter.

\path\to\php.exe \path\to\maintenance\run.php moveBatch --u=user --r=reason --noredirects \path\to\listfiles.txt

Example command:

C:\xampp\core\php55\php.exe C:\xampp\htdocs\mw\maintenance\run.php moveBatch --u=user --r=reason --noredirects C:\xxx.txt