Wiki Rename

There's now a development branch for adding a page rename operation to the TracWiki, in sandbox/wiki-rename.

Among the various possibilities for performing a rename, this implementation aims at simplicity. The page name is modified "in-place", i.e. the object identity is mutated and as such, the whole history is kept and becomes associated to the renamed wiki page.

• Status: initial version, should work reasonably well.
• View the changes: log:sandbox/wiki-rename
• Test the branch, e.g.:

  % svn co http://svn.edgewall.org/repos/trac/sandbox/wiki-rename
  % cd wiki-rename
  % python setup.py develop
  % python trac/web/standalone.py -p 8000 <your-test-environment>
  

You need to be a WIKI_ADMIN in order to be able to rename a page (or at the very least, have the new WIKI_RENAME permission).

How it works

Example: renaming WikiStart to ProjectHome

• before the rename:

pagename	text	comment
WikiStart	version1	comment1
WikiStart	version2	comment2
WikiStart	version3	comment3

• after the rename:

pagename	text	comment
ProjectHome	version1	comment1
ProjectHome	version2	comment2
ProjectHome	version3	comment3

the WikiStart page will be (optionally) recreated with a redirection to the new page:

pagename	text	comment
WikiStart	See ProjectHome	Renamed WikiStart to ProjectHome

Note that this is very similar to how ​moving a page in MediaWiki works.

Overview of the changes

• added new WikiPage.rename and Attachment.reparent_all methods
• added new wiki_rename.html template and the corresponding handler methods, WikiModule._render_confirm_rename and WikiModule._do_rename methods

Discussion

Feel free to provide feedback.

• Would be nice to have a ​HTTP 301 redirect from the old wiki page to the new one, to keep searchengine rankings etc.
  • Right, real redirect is on the TODO list (#976)

• Another TODO optionally rename sub-pages as well, and more generally, have the possibility to do batch renames

• Another TODO would be nice to have an entry in the history of the page including the name, date and optional comment of the rename event.

• Another TODO also rename all links to renamed pages on all other pages and create for this a new version for all affected pages

Cabbiepete: This sounds like an excellent idea currently re-organising the wiki structure is quite painful.

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See also: #1106, TracDev/Proposals/AdvancedWikiOperations