Manual:moveBatch.php

MediaWiki file: moveBatch.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.39.3 • 1.38.6 • 1.35.10
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

Linux

php /path/to/moveBatch.php --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

Suppose, A page called Manual:Wiki Edit was created in main namespace and we want to move it to Help: namespace. How to do that using moveBatch.php?

Command Code for batch moving will be like this:

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

• If you have local server, Run Apache+MySQL
• Make list of pages you want to move and save as xxx.txt file. Pages name should be arranged like this:

Manual:Wiki Edit|Help:Wiki Edit
Manual:Extensions|Help:Manual:Extension
Manual:How to use moveBatch.php|Help:How to use moveBatch.php

• Open your CMD (Command Prompt window). ^{To open do this press windows key+R key then write cmd and press Enter}
• In CMD show where is your php.exe located, then show where is your moveBatch.php located and finally give where is your list file location

Command will be look e.g. like this:

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

That's it!