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From: Temlakos <tem...@gm...> - 2008-04-30 23:20:17
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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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference > Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. > Use priority code J8TL2D2. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Semediawiki-user mailing list > Sem...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-user > |