Extension talk:Replace Text/Archive 2018

Regex (big wish)
Please add regular expressions. That would help to maintain templates.--Jannis 11:27, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
 * I also think that would be the next logical step :) Maybe a good preview (before / after) of the unparsed text would be needed here. --Subfader 18:31, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be lovely. --SomaticJourney 19:30, 13 March 2010 (UTC)

Search apparently not working after doing first set of replacements
I just did a search to replace " " with "  " within a specific namespace. It replaced that text just fine on about 90 pages within that namespace.

I then wanted to do a similar replace in the same namespace, like this: " " to "  ". However, the search isn't finding the pages in that same namespace saying that no pages were found. My job to replace Template1 seems to have finished about a half hour ago, so I don't think there is any conflicting going on. Also, we have a development instance of our site, and when I try the same search on that site it does pick up all the Template2 instances. Any idea what might be happening? Thanks! --Gkullberg 18:38, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Hard to tell from here, if not impossible ;) --Subfader 20:38, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Agreed. Yet is there anything you can point me to on the server that I could look at, like processes, error / task logs, or anything where I could troubleshoot myself? --Gkullberg 21:13, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Did you try the whole thing again for Template2? If still nothing happened the Template1 case doesn't matter much here and we have the case that you searched term wasn't found at all. I can tell you what I would to. I would check if Template2 is called anywhere at all directly and in which namespace; therefor I would
 * go to Template:Template2 and see "what links here", if nothing was found
 * i'd search it using this extension: replace "Template2" (without quotes and – " with nothing or a temp string, just to see what it finds.If nothing was found I dunno lol.
 * If it was found I would check if it really is only used as or if aparameter are used, e.g.  . You may have tested all this, but I can't think of more.
 * If something was found but nothing happens it's useful to run maintenance/runJobs.php --Subfader 01:41, 27 January 2010 (UTC)

Redirects still getting created
I did a find & replace for a bunch of page names which got moved to new names. I unchecked "Save the old titles as redirects to the new titles", yet redirects still got created. I was hoping that redirects didn't get created. Is that the intended outcome? --Gkullberg 21:12, 26 January 2010 (UTC)


 * No it's not. I have problems with my job queue atm so I can't confirm but it looks like this is indeed a bug. --Subfader 03:45, 27 January 2010 (UTC)


 * Ah, what do you know, it's really a bug. Well, not exactly a bug, but an issue involving the somewhat-new MediaWiki 'suppressredirect' permission. I added a note about this to the "Known issues" section. Yaron Koren 04:49, 27 January 2010 (UTC)