Assist Global Replace

It is possible to globally replace text in pages with other text.

See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text

Essentially:

• Go to Special:ReplaceText
• Enter text to find
  • Note: You can use regex here, but be VERY careful.
• Enter text to replace
• Enter a prefix - this serves as a filter of the pages you want to replace.
• Click Continue
• You will be shown a list of pages affected (up to 250 at a time)
• You can select those to be replaced with checkboxes.
• Click Replace

The replacements will go to a job queue and will be processed one per view of a page.

This can be forced from the command line.

• Log onto the Assist box.
• Open a command window.
• CD into the appropriate Assist\maintenance folder
• Run the following:

D:\xampp\htdocs\calidus-assist\OBS\maintenance>D:\xampp\php\php.exe runJobs.php

If there is an error, you can clear the jobs from the appropriate assist table using SQL e.g. obs_job.

Some more problem-solving commands:

D:\xampp\htdocs\calidus-assist\OBS\maintenance>D:\xampp\php\php.exe showJobs.php

D:\xampp\htdocs\calidus-assist\OBS\maintenance>D:\xampp\php\php.exe showJobs.php --list