namespaceDupes: Make --move-talk default-on
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	Mar 30 2026, 6:08 PM

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In T420654#11766795, @Pppery wrote:

Try running namespaceDupes with --move-talk (in addition to the --source-pseudo-namepace param required to handle the space for frwiki) (Why isn't --move-talk the default?)

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Related Changes in Gerrit:

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	namespaceDupes: Unconditionally enable --move-talk	mediawiki/core	master	+3 -9

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Mentioned In: T420654: Set up an interwiki prefix for Abstract Wikipedia
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Jdforrester-WMF created this task.Mar 30 2026, 6:08 PM

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I'm going to go further still and make it unconditionally enabled. I can't think of a reason you would want to move an inaccessible page without moving its talk page.

Change #1270613 had a related patch set uploaded (by Pppery; author: Pppery):

[mediawiki/core@master] namespaceDupes: Unconditionally enable --move-talk

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1270613

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 14 2026, 2:44 AM

Change #1270613 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] namespaceDupes: Unconditionally enable --move-talk

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/1270613