Okay, maybe it is a really dumb question, but I have noted that Wikipedia has some bots that perform various functions with apparently minimal human intervention. There's a different scale of need and some tasks that do not concern me now. But the concept of having something be able to handle repetive tasks would be helpful.
<br><br>Another example possibly closer to home for some others: When I changed skins a while back, I noted that I could better use the top level ! headingr than in the previous skin, where the top level was !!. So I manually changed those (!! to !, !!! to !!, etc.). Now the wiki is much bigger and a pesky task like that would take a ridiculous amount of time. Would there be any way to change those without going into each page and editing?
<br><br>Don<br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Donald Z. Osborn</b> <<a href="mailto:dzosborn@gmail.com">dzosborn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In this case there are headings that are the same (like a form but not sure one could implement that -?) and some content below the headings that is the same (one would want an if-then or search-replace kind of mode for those - something that might be on 30 or 40 of 90 language pages for example).
<br><br>Actually I was thinking of a search-replace kind of thing, that would search the wiki markup in each page and make the replacements in each and save.<div><span class="e" id="q_1157c7c92705f0ac_1"><br><br><br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/7/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Kathryn Andersen</b> <<a href="mailto:kat_lists@katspace.homelinux.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">kat_lists@katspace.homelinux.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 04:02:15PM -0400, Donald Z. Osborn wrote:<br>> In any event, this would be extremely helpful for a wiki in which I several<br>> groups of pages that have the same structure and to which some simple edits
<br>> or updates are periodically necessary.<br><br>I'm just wondering... if the edits required are so simple that a bot<br>could do them -- that is, almost identical, yes? Would it be simpler to<br>have a common page that gets included in those pages?
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