Re: [Mediawiki-l] How do I rename mysite.org/warcraftwiki to mysite.org/gameswiki?

Thomas Anderson skrev: A tip from one newbie to another: I was in the same predicament and choose to export *all* the pages of the wiki, make a search-replace for the offending word with a perl script (you could do it in a good Unicode-aware text editor if the export file isn't too darn huge...) then recreate the wiki with the meta namespace renamed and import the lot again. You will find the extensions DPL and NukeDPL most helpful, since they allow you to export, delete and import only the pages containing the offending word in their body or title. <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:DynamicPageList> <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:NukeDPL> More specifically: 1. Make sureto go to the DPL website and read the manual on page selection. 2. Create a page in the main namespace which only contains an appropriate DPL query to list all pages with the offending word, 1. Copy-paste the generated list as plain text into your text editor and edit it to be appropriate for Special:Export (remove list markers and any empty lines). 3. Copy-paste the cleaned-up page list into export, and export the relevant pages to a file. Don't forget to export page histories as well! 4. Make a zip/rar archive of the exported file as a backup copy in case anything goes wrong! 1. Open the exported file in a text editor and replace all instances of the offending word. Take note of possible alternative spellings or misspellings (e.g. "foowiki, FooWiki, foo wiki, Foo Wiki, Fou Wiki") and make sure you replace all with the appropriate replacement ("BarWiki", eh?:-). Obviously case insensitive regular expression search can be of great assistance here, and obviously this step can be made with a perl script if you know how to. 5. Copy the DPL query from step 2. into NukeDPL and delete the relevant pages. 6. Re-import the pages from the changed file with Special:Import. You still will have to rename the meta-namespace, and I'm unaware of how that should be done. In our case we didn't need to rename any namespace, just replace every instance of a certain word, which luckily didn't appear in any namespace name. You can leave the extensions around of course. DPL is extremely useful for overview and disambiguation pages! (And for making lists of all pages you've created or edited on your user page! :-) Regards, /Benct Philip Jonsson I also had one in Latin, from Tacitus: "Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" -- appropriate anywhere a war is fought in Real Life.