Mass Search and Replace Many Items at Once on Mediawiki
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Does anyone know of a plugin for Mediawiki, or some sort of method, that allows you to mass search and replace information between two custom tags/markers you put on your pages? I run a video game wiki and we have boxes where we put information about a character (let's say the boxes are between `<boxCharacterName>` and `</boxCharacterName>` tags). These boxes are incomplete until the release of the game - they'll have maybe X character's height, or Y character's colors, or whatever. Once the game is released, however, we now have all the data for each character. Instead of manually going through each page and adding in the missing information, which varies from page to page, it would be much easier to just wipe out all of the character boxes and input the new, complete data. In essence, I want to be able to replace `<boxJoe>`|Height=4'0"|Weight=|Colors=`</boxJoe>` with `<boxJoe>`|Height=4'0"|Weight=150|Colors=Green`</boxJoe>`. And since there's many characters for each new game, I want to be able to mass search and replace them all at once in one interface.

This plugin seems to do partly what I want: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Replace_Text

I can use regular expressions (I think) to replace information between whatever custom tags I put on my pages to mark information. What that plugin doesn't let me do is input all of my new information at once. I would have to use the plugin once per character instead of, say, uploading a CSV file with the changes I want to make and applying them all at once (say like one column has `<boxCharacterName></boxCharacterName>` to target and the next column has `<boxCharacterName>all the info</boxCharacterName>`).

When you want to mass create or delete pages, there's certain plugins that allow you to upload a CSV file, or something similar, which lists what pages you want to create (and their information) or pages you want to delete. I'd like to find something like that, but for searching and replacing (inputting each of your searches and replaces at once).

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!