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Bug 72665 - VisualEditor: Provide a way to move pages through interacting with the displayed title
VisualEditor: Provide a way to move pages through interacting with the displa...
Status: ASSIGNED
Product: VisualEditor
Classification: Unclassified
MediaWiki integration (Other open bugs)
unspecified
All All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Editing team bugs – take if you're interested!
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Reported: 2014-10-29 09:13 UTC by Martijn Hoekstra
Modified: 2014-10-29 16:33 UTC (History)
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Description Martijn Hoekstra 2014-10-29 09:13:55 UTC
An often encountered hurdle for new editors is that they can't find out how to move a page. Generally they ask how to "change the title". Apparently - and understandably - in their mental model, the title of a page is part of the page. It would be nice if VE could accommodate that model. For that I suggest
* Make the page title editable
* If the new page title is a valid title, move the page to that location
** If the move fails, notify of the failure to automatically change the title, and link to the documentation of the move functionality, suggesting to do it manually.
* If the new page title isn't a valid title, insert a {{DISPLAYTITLE}} element to the page.
Comment 1 James Forrester 2014-10-29 16:33:16 UTC
Hmm. I like this idea. Could get a bit complicated where "sometimes" it is moving the page, and "sometimes" it's setting the {{DISPLAYTITLE}}, and it's not clear which is which.

Also, moving mid-edit might be complicated on the back-end? MW relies on the title of a page /way/ too much. Something to watch for when we implement.

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