A site that we link to from our wiki has been redesigned, so that all of our links to it are broken. I see how to search for the articles using the links using Special:LinkSearch. Is there a way to replace an external link string throughout a wiki? I would do it with and SQL query, but that data seems to be stored in blobs. I have no idea how to change blob contents, nor would I want to risk it!
Thanks, Michelle
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Michellemichelle.sg1@gmail.com wrote:
A site that we link to from our wiki has been redesigned, so that all of our links to it are broken. I see how to search for the articles using the links using Special:LinkSearch. Is there a way to replace an external link string throughout a wiki? I would do it with and SQL query, but that data seems to be stored in blobs. I have no idea how to change blob contents, nor would I want to risk it!
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You might want to look into one of the text replacement extensions like ReplaceText. There's no way in the core software to do it, really.
-Chad
Michelle wrote:
A site that we link to from our wiki has been redesigned, so that all of our links to it are broken. I see how to search for the articles using the links using Special:LinkSearch. Is there a way to replace an external link string throughout a wiki? I would do it with and SQL query, but that data seems to be stored in blobs. I have no idea how to change blob contents, nor would I want to risk it!
Thanks, Michelle
pywikipediabot can easily traverse all pages linking to a site doing there a replacement on the string.
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