Re: [Semediawiki-user] New extension: "Replace Text"

[Temlakos <tem...@gm...>]

Yaron:

The biggest problem I see with your "Replace Text" extension is that it 
has no prompt-and-skip option. It's the equivalent of a find-and-replace 
routine in a text editor that knows only one speed: "Replace All." That 
can be dangerous.

I appreciate your building in a new group permission and assigning it to 
sysops. Of course, the Bureaucracy of any wiki can always create a new 
user's group of text-replacers, depending on how big the sysop community 
happens to be. (On CreationWiki, which uses SMW, we have one Bureaucrat 
and a handful of sysops, including me, so the default permission 
assignment would work fine.)

But if you could possibly work up a prompt-before-replace routine, I'd 
be really grateful.

Temlakos

Yaron Koren wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is to announce a new extension of mine, called "Replace Text". 
> This extension creates a new special page, "Special:ReplaceText", 
> available only to administrators of a wiki, that provides a simple 
> form to do a global string search-and-replace on the contents of all 
> non-Talk pages of a wiki.
>
> There's nothing semantic per se about the extension, but it was 
> developed in large part for usage with Semantic MediaWiki. Since SMW's 
> page properties don't follow redirects, the only way to handle 
> renaming a page that's the object of semantic properties is to 
> manually change each of the pages that link to it; if there are dozens 
> or hundreds of such pages, this can become a difficult task. It's come 
> up as an issue on some of the wikis that I've handled, and this 
> extension has helped; I assume it could help others as well. Of 
> course, it can also be used for entirely non-SMW purposes, whenever 
> you want to do a large-scale replacement.
>
> Currently it's only available in English, though translations should 
> start coming in soon courtesy of Betawiki. You can read more and 
> download it here:
>
> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text
>
> -Yaron
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