Description
This task is for the quick updating of links to an article, image, or category that has been moved to a new name.
- Tool: AWB
In order to prevent false positives where a longer article name contains a shorter one (e.g. Category:Mursaat is contained in Category:Mursaat Bosses), each of the replacement operations given below will actually consist of three find/replace rules, one for each of the possible characters that can follow an article name in a wikilink.
[[old] → [[new]
[[old| → [[new|
[[old# → [[new#
Articles
AWB will make a list from "What links here" to the old article name. On each page in this list, AWB will perform the following replacement:
[[Old Article Name → [[New article name
Categories
Articles in category
Since AWB is currently unable to make a list from categories on Wikia wikis, the list of articles assigned to the old category will have to be manually saved to a local file (methods for doing so can be found here). On each of these pages, AWB will perform the following replacement:
[[Category: Old Cat Name → [[Category:New cat name
Links to category
AWB will make a list from "What links here" to the old category name. On each page in this list, AWB will perform the following replacement:
[[:Category: Old Cat Name → [[:Category:New cat name
Images
Image file links
AWB will make a list from "Image file links" to the old image name. On each page in this list, AWB will perform the following replacement:
[[Image: Old Image Name → [[Image:New image name
Image page links
AWB will make a list from "What links here" to the old image name. On each page in this list, AWB will perform the following replacement:
[[:Image: Old Image Name → [[:Image:New image name
Requests
Any requests for link updating can be posted on the talk page. Provide a link to both the old and the new page names.