[Mediawiki-l] Fixing external links across a wiki

[Platonides]

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.