https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17554
--- Comment #2 from Dan Barrett <mediaw...@blazemonger.com> 2009-02-21
13:11:53 UTC ---
Hmmm. I don't see why this is "modifying aspects of the page history." It's
just importing a new, current version at the current time, not in the past.
If the MediaWiki API can do this simply, that's great. Where can I see a
complete example that does search-and-replace in general? ("In general"
meaning "you don't have to write a new PHP script for every search/replace
operation.") Somehow I wonder, if it were this simple, wouldn't someone
already have written a search-and-replace Special Page?
Also, I think the import solution is better than an API solution in one
respect: you can see and validate your changes (in the XML file) before import.
With the API, if you get your search-and-replace patterns wrong (which is VERY
easy to do), you've modified your content wrongly. I find that more "scary"
than modifying an XML file you can check in advance.
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