Renaming an Account Doesn't Move the Userpages Globally

[Drewlzoo]

I just renamed Legoboy's account per his request, but when I renamed it, it only moved his userpage and talk page on meta. Any other wikis he was on still displayed his userpage under his old name. When you go to his new userpage, it does display the social profile header properly, but not the actually page.

[adamrobcarter]

You might have to rename it on every project...

[georgebarnick]

No, you'll have to manually move them after a rename. The RenameUser
feature has essentially two functions, it changes the value in the user
database table and moves pages. The user database table is global, so it
changes for all wikis when using RenameUser, but userpages aren't global so
RenameUser can only move them on the project it is used from.

[seaside98]

Could a bot be programmed to do it?

[georgebarnick]

Yes, that's what I was thinking. There are similar bots on enwiki that do things after a log action happens, such as some bots that remove items from Administrator Noticeboards after a user is blocked. It would be easy to do, basically this:

account rename    bot reads logs    globally move any "User:<oldname>*" to "User:<newname>*"
   ------>           ------>
                                                * represents wildcards if any subpages exist

[adamrobcarter]

hmm, if there is code in the extension to move the extension pages on one wiki, it could probably be very easily adapted to do it on multiple wikis... I'll take a look tommorrow.

[adamrobcarter]

Working on this now.

[neoncitylights]

Superseded by https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T104830