Fremantle
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I've been doing lots of MediaWiki page moves lately, on Freopedia. I use the accesskey alt+shift+m, and have changed the movepage-moved message to include an edit link so that as soon as I've moved a page I can jump in to editing it (really, I'd rather the edit accesskey worked from that page too, but I guess it's slightly ambiguous which page — old or new — should be edited).
The new message text is:
"[[$3|$3]]" has been moved to "$2" ([{{fullurl:$4|action=edit}} edit])(This works because there are parameters to that message that are not used by default: $1 - the source page as a link with display name; $2 - the target page as a link with display name; $3 - (optional) the source page name without a link; $4 - (optional) the target page name without a link.)
I did the import to Freopedia with all original page names maintained, including the path and .html file extension. That was probably unnecessary, and people might think it ugly, but it isn't always obvious what their destination page name should be. Also, by keeping the original location in the page history it's much easier to track down broken links and to generally keep the provenance clearer (i.e. each page's location on the original Freotopia site). I'm working my way through it all and fixing the page names (which reasonably often is more than just a page move, it might also involve merging with another existing page and definitely often is about editing the page contents).