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I believe 2.0 has something like this already planned, but I could be wrong.
This could speed up page renames a lot. Probably more useful for work renames than trope renames, as I assume trope renames tend to come with cleanups and resorting alphabetization.
There could also be a function to select between certain kinds of links, such as curly bracket links, WikiWords, WikiWords at the start of bullet points, and potholes.
The link move part is tricky. During a lot of moves, the wicks need to be realphabetized or cleaned up.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I'd leave link updating for when we have a module that splits examples (related to auto-alphabetization and auto-crosswicking).
For the rest, Mover could (if not already) include "also move discussions", "also move vidoe examples", "also move history", "also rename subpages" checkboxes, so things related to moving would haopen in the same click.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
I'd say trope renames happen a few times a month but it depends on how the discussion and voting process at the Trope Repair Shop goes. Work page renames can't really be measured either but I can't say they happen thaat often.
Macron's notes
Ah that’s not nearly often enough to merit additional work. When it comes to new features we would actually spend time adding, whatever it’s fixing or helping has to be something that occurs most or every day and/or in large numbers. This site is extremely vast and very busy so we can’t waste time adding features that don’t have a significant impact.
Edited by kory Now monitoring Wishlist and Bugs
The way page moves occur is through a simple sequence:
This seems like a process that could be automated. Since the mods are able to move the discussion pages without manually recreating them, that would suggest that a utility of some sort already exists, and it's just a matter of altering the connected/parent page.
As there is not much complicated editing, automating the process should be relatively easy, and the proposed utility might do the following:
The site already has the ability to do a good many of these functions, since it is able to determine related pages/links, and the page moves are relatively simple functions using editing, which is already performed by the SYSTEM user.
It also already grabs the wicks, and is able to determine which corresponds to which new page. Since updating wicks is the most time-consuming aspects of page changes, even just automating it would significantly speed up page renames.
To prevent abuse, the utility could be either limited to mods, or operate on a similar page to the cut-list, where users propose a page move/change, the changes is reviewed, and if approved, the move takes place.