On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Varnit Suri <[email protected]> wrote:
> Q - thanks for replying. Yes, I meant wikilinks.
>
> All the wikilinks in my Wiki have references to the Wiki server IP address
> (see example below), which now needs to be changed. So I 'm still trying to
> figure out:
>
> 1. How do I do this? Where is all this text stored?

Well, since they're external links, you're going to have to edit every
page that has a link. It's stored in the database, but mucking about
in the database by hand is a Bad Idea™ so use the API.

> 2. Is a global find-and-replace the best solution, or is there an
> alternative?

Not really no, but I'd suggest to use the [[Media:]] syntax[1] so you
wont run into this problem again in the future.

1-http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links#Internal_links

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