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Replace Text Extension
 
        Version 1.4.1
        Yaron Koren, Niklas Laxström and others
 
This is free software licenced under the GNU General Public Licence. Please
see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for further details, including the
full text and terms of the licence.
 
== Overview ==
 
Replace Text is an extension to MediaWiki that creates a new special page,
Special:ReplaceText, available to anyone who has the 'replacetext'
privilege, that does a text find-and-replace on all pages in the wiki,
selectable by namespace. Both the contents of pages and their titles can be
modified. The search is case-sensitive.
 
Since the replacement is not undoable, if the replacement string is
blank or a string that is already contained in the wiki, the 'ReplaceText'
page prompts the user to confirm the replacement before it is performed.
 
Each replacement shows up as a wiki edit, with the administrator who
performed the replacement appearing as the user and an edit summary that
looks like "Text replacement: 'search string' to 'replacement string'".
 
For more information, see the extension homepage at:
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text
 
== Requirements ==
 
This version of the Replace Text extension requires MediaWiki 1.23 or higher.
 
== Installation ==
 
To install the extension, place the entire 'ReplaceText' directory
within your MediaWiki 'extensions' directory, then add either of the
following lines to your 'LocalSettings.php' file:
 
     wfLoadExtension( 'ReplaceText' );
     require_once( "$IP/extensions/ReplaceText/ReplaceText.php" );
 
In order to perform replacements, you must have the 'replacetext' permssion;
if you are an administrator on your wiki, the easiest way to do this is to
also add the following line:
 
     $wgGroupPermissions['sysop']['replacetext'] = true;
 
== Contact ==
 
Comments, questions, suggestions and bug reports are welcome, and can
be placed on the Talk page for the extension, or sent to Yaron at
yaron57@gmail.com.