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drewrockshard
drewrockshard

Reputation: 2071

MediaWiki: Dynamic Templates (infobox)

I'm sure this works for infoboxes and pretty much anything else in MediaWiki, however, my issue is that I have a template that uses Semantic Forms. The forms also populate an infobox. One of the drop down menus are pulled in from Categories. So I have "Cat 1", "Cat 2", and "Cat 3". So, now I have 1000 pages in MW and on 500 of them I need to rename "Cat 2" to "Category 2". How would I be able to "mass edit" all 500 pages to reflect this change? I'm wanting to do it dynamically, so that I don't have to manually change 500 pages. Is there a way to do this? If not now, is there a way to fix this for future happenings so that I don't make this mistake again?

Any feedback is appriciated.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 599

Answers (1)

Laurent Alquier
Laurent Alquier

Reputation: 514

How did you assign 'Cat 2' to those pages ?

If you used Semantic Form, you may have created a 'Cat 2 form' and a corresponding 'Cat 2 template' where you assigned the category to the resulting page.

In this case, all you have to do is update the 'Cat 2 template' to reflect the new category and all pages using that template will be refreshed by a background job.

If you have assigned the category to these pages manually :

1- Use the MediaWiki ReplaceText extension to search and replace the category assignments 2- Use a template for you category assignments - that will save you a lot of time the next time you have to change categories.

Upvotes: 2

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