Extension talk:Replace Text/Archive 2018

Large Wikis
For wikis with numerous pages, an approach based on jobs might be more appropriate. Just a thought. Jean-Lou Dupont 15:48, 29 April 2008 (UTC)


 * Asking administrators to set up a cron job might be overkill - what do you think about the idea of including a command-line script instead, for the case of large wikis? Yaron Koren 19:25, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I was thinking about a MediaWiki custom job written as an extension: each page request (from any user) would trigger X number of replace tasks. This is the general way jobs under MediaWiki work. Jean-Lou Dupont 19:38, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh, I wasn't even aware of that functionality. I just looked it up; that definitely clarifies some things about how templates and categories work... do you know if there's documentation somewhere on how to add jobs? Yaron Koren 19:44, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I usually just look at the code in those cases ;-) Look at JobQueue.php. Jean-Lou Dupont 19:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)


 * Okay, thanks; that looks ideal. It could be useful not just for this extension, but for functionality like SMW's refresh-semantic-data action, which currently runs only as a command-line script. Is there any code of yours I can look at that uses the job queue? Yaron Koren 19:55, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately no but it looks straight forward enough. Jean-Lou Dupont 20:02, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Error
I have this error: Fatal error:

Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in path\includes\Database.php on line 681

--85.18.14.29 10:53, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * See Jean-Lou Dupont 11:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Regexp and others
Hi Yaron. Could you make this excellent extension use Regexp and make some check box on giving it a preview mode or a list of data which will be changed. :)--Roc michael 20:19, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Roc, I totally agree with you. +: I think we could have a way to select in which namespaces or categories we want to do the search, and could be a multiselect box, something like this: (first field) http://lab.arc90.com/tools/multiselect/

Finally!
Was looking for something like this as this would be the only reason to use bots what I'm too dumb to. Thanks!

Still I get memory problems: On localhost I get this error after ~3 seconds:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 3672 bytes) in C:\xampp\htdocs\wiki12clean\includes\Title.php on line 142 On my sever where I have a php memory limit of 30MB it gives me a blank page. Error log:

PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in includes/Database.php on line 818 (MW 1.12.0 / PHP 5.1) --Subfader 21:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
 * And I also support the "per namespace" feature. --Subfader 15:56, 11 May 2008 (UTC)