[Mediawiki-l] Fixing external links across a wiki

[Chad]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Michelle<michelle.sg1 at 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!
>
> Thanks,
> Michelle
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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