Hi Jude! It seems to me that the easiest way to do this task is to write a wikibot which will give your table as input and will replace all the occurrences with the replacements in the table.
Here is an information on how to write bots - it's pretty easy and I write them from time to time for a variety of purposes: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Bots http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Creating_a_bot ----- Yury Katkov On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Jude Jonassaint <jcjonassa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Yuri: > Thank you. After I reading again the email sent I am think I did not > explain well what I am trying to do. > We have pages that have people name both in the title of the pages and > in the body of the pages. We no longer want the names of the people to > be seen so we would like to replace the name with a new unique string > ID. So we would like to make a table of the names and generate a > corresponding new unique ID for each name. Then we would like to be > able to replace at once all the names we have in the table with the > new unique IDs in the wiki. > > > Say we have two pages > John Lui - Author 1 > Jane Elle - Author 2 > > we want to change those pages to > AString - Author 1 > AdifferentString - Author 2 > > With the ReplaceText extension I can change "John Lui" everywhere in > the wiki to "AString." > And then do the same for Jane Elle. > Instead, to do the same thing, I would like to use a table like > John Lui | AString > Jane Elle | AdifferentString > > Is there a way to do this with an extension or a script? > > Jude > > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Yury Katkov <katkov.ju...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi! >> If you user SemanticSignUp or SemanticSocialProfile and/or all users >> in a wiki are represented by their pages with SMW-properties than >> making such a list is an easy task that can be solved by the query >> like this: >> >> {{#ask:[[Category:User]] >> |?Username >> |?UserId >> format=broadtable >> }} >> >> Sincrely yours, >> >> ----- >> Yury Katkov >> >> >> >> >> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Jude Jonassaint <jcjonassa...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> In a SMW where people are identified by name we would like to replace >>> the names with an identifier (could be a number or a string). >>> Is there a way to take a list (spreadsheet) of the names and >>> associated new identifiers to globally replace the names in the wiki >>> with the corresponding identifiers in the wiki? >>> >>> We would hate to do this one name at a time because that would be >>> really time consuming. >>> >>> Jude >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Try before you buy = See our experts in action! >>> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >>> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >>> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Semediawiki-devel mailing list >>> Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Semediawiki-devel mailing list Semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/semediawiki-devel
