Basilicofresco added a comment.

  Well, probably I did not express myself well. 
  The whole point of using the dump with replace.py is to rapidly filter the 
xml by replacements in order to speed up the process of replacing something 
with something else on the whole ns:0. Replace.py used to work in this way 
since at least 15 years.
  At the moment it's just listing any page within the dump even if these pages 
does not contain the word "meteorite" and it is a problem because in this way 
the use of a big dumps become pointless. I could do the same without the dump 
just executing something like
  
    python pwb.py replace.py -start:* -ns:0 -lang:it "meteorite" "" 
  
  Moreover the message //No changes were necessary in [[page]]// should not be 
removed because it is useful. Thanks to it I'm aware that a page contained at 
the time of the dump something that triggered the replacements, but now it 
doesn't trig them anymore. I used this information in the past for a wide range 
of uses... understanding if someone else was fixing the same problem, testing 
if an improved version of a regex is still catching some pages, rapidly listing 
pages that I already fixed for a specific regex and many more.

TASK DETAIL
  https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T306134

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