[dokuwiki] Re: How to move media and preserve the links?

  • From: Wes <stararmy@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 19:29:26 -0500

There was a good plugin for this called Pagemove, but it no longer
works. It's a shame the author stopped updating it. I found it
extremely useful.

-Wes

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Florian Feldhaus
<florian.feldhaus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just a few minutes ago I was having the same problem. Moving media is not
> very user friendly and needs extra work with fixing the links.
>
> Florian
>
> Andreas Benzler schrieb:
>>
>> Hi all
>>
>> We have a small dokuwiki running with arround 1k pages. After 3 years the
>> structure got a bit screwed up. Partly because people had typos in new
>> namespaces during creation of these namespaces.
>>
>> I would like to restructure the wiki a bit:
>> * rename namespaces and pages
>> * move entire namespaces
>> * move media
>>
>> What I tested so far was the pagemove plugin which takes some time to
>> rename
>> and move pages and namespaces but with a smal wiki it should work, even if
>> you can not move entire namespaces as far as i could seen
>>
>> The problem I face now is how to remove the media which is linked to the
>> pages. I would like to rename and move tis namespaces as well. As far as I
>> could see the pagemove plugin does not care for this. Is there any other
>> way
>> for doing this. Or do I have to move everthing on a file system level. But
>> then I have to fix all the links by hand or scripts. When I want to delete
>> a
>> media that is still in use, dokuwiki prevents that. Does dokuwiki maintain
>> a
>> list of pages where each media is refered to, so that I at least could
>> look
>> up where I have to look for broken links?
>>
>> Many thanks in advance
>>
>> Andreas
>>
>>
>
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