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Bug 27049 - Create web UI front-end for namespaceDupes, cleanupTitles
Create web UI front-end for namespaceDupes, cleanupTitles
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
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1.18.x
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: Normal enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2011-01-30 20:17 UTC by Brion Vibber
Modified: 2011-01-31 07:59 UTC (History)
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Description Brion Vibber 2011-01-30 20:17:22 UTC 
namespaceDupes.php & cleanupTitles.php can be necessary when making certain kinds of tweaks to the system, but they're kind of opaque.

In addition to improving their CLI interfaces (eg but 27048), I think it would be beneficial to give these a web UI interface which can let local sysops / bcrats / stewards (or whoever) find and clean up broken pages without manual intervention from server maintainers.

(For Wikimedia, this will mean less site-request bottlenecking: after a namespace tweak or other change that ends up causing problems, there'll be a larger pool of people who can fix it.)


A web UI will also be better at providing interactive controls, eg to do batch checks / confirmations / resolutions of ambiguous states.
Comment 1 Sam Reed (reedy) 2011-01-30 22:03:24 UTC 
Doing this in a nice, generic, extendible way would be great ;)
Comment 2 Casey Brown 2011-01-30 22:38:44 UTC 
The Maintenance Extension creates a web interface for making scripts like this.  It might be a good idea to use that, clean it up, or just copy some of its ideas. 

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Maintenance
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