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2025-05-12T11:23:57Z

Initial Creation

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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:

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

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:

<pre>
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

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