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HeinzJ

7 Jun 2006 7 Jun '06

7:05 p.m.

i would like to change all occurences and references of an username in all tables can someone give me a hint how this can be done. does there exist a php-script or some sql-code-snipplet? thx, heinz

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Anders Wegge Jakobsen

7 Jun 7 Jun

7:17 p.m.

New subject: changing usernames / changing all occurences of a username [[user:XYZ]] in all tables

HeinzJ <h-j.luecking(a)t-online.de> writes:

i would like to change all occurences and references of an username in all tables can someone give me a hint how this can be done. does there exist a php-script or some sql-code-snipplet?

Install the Renameuser extension from <http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Renameuser/> -- // Wegge Min begrundelse for at betragte Arne Wilstrup som en paphat: <http://wiki.wegge.dk/Usenet_personligheder> Bruger du den gratis spamfighther ser jeg kun dine indlæg *EN* gang.

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HeinzJ

8:17 p.m.

thxs Anders, but that extension only renames users whithin table "users" an perhaps soome more. But my problem are the references within the "cur"-table where you have text / links to a user page "[[user:name]]". these references dont get changed by that extension. Heinz Anders Wegge Jakobsen schrieb:

HeinzJ <h-j.luecking(a)t-online.de> writes:

i would like to change all occurences and references of an username in all tables can someone give me a hint how this can be done. does there exist a php-script or some sql-code-snipplet?

Install the Renameuser extension from <http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/Renameuser/>

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Platonides

8:32 p.m.

New subject: changing usernames / changing all occurences of a username [[user:XYZ]] in all tables

"HeinzJ"

thxs Anders, but that extension only renames users whithin table "users" an perhaps soome more. But my problem are the references within the "cur"-table where you have text / links to a user page "[[user:name]]". these references dont get changed by that extension. Heinz

Use the 'what links-here' data and then run a bot to fix the refered pages?

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Rob Church

11:15 p.m.

New subject: changing usernames / changing all occurences of a username [[user:XYZ]] in all tables

On 07/06/06, HeinzJ <h-j.luecking(a)t-online.de> wrote:

thxs Anders, but that extension only renames users whithin table "users" an perhaps soome more. But my problem are the references within the "cur"-table where you have text / links to a user page "[[user:name]]". these references dont get changed by that extension.

The magic of redirects. Rob Church

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