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== [[Special:ReplaceText]] == | == [[Special:ReplaceText]] == | ||
If you want to replace MediaWiki with Wikia as the engine in all [[:category:wikia|wikia]] articles then that is the feature to use, there's no reason to mess around with bots. | If you want to replace MediaWiki with Wikia as the engine in all [[:category:wikia|wikia]] articles then that is the feature to use, there's no reason to mess around with bots. | ||
:[[Special:ReplaceText]] will only work on one string of text - my issue would need to look at two strings, but replace just one . . . so I can't see how that would work????? Or have I missed something? :/ <<<confused.com>>> | |||
Frankly I don't see how Wikia counts as its own engine however, it's just MediaWiki with an ugly skin and some features. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 24 November 2012 | Frankly I don't see how Wikia counts as its own engine however, it's just MediaWiki with an ugly skin and some features. '''[[User talk:Elassint|Elassint]]''' 24 November 2012 | ||
:Wikia ''may'' be based on MediaWiki, but it is so uniquely modified to the extent that no other host or provider can display the same as Wikia - hence why it should be differenciated from traditional MediaWiki sites. MediaWiki has spawned many clones (and not all MediaWiki look-alikes are written in [[:Category:PHP|PHP]]), and those are recognised as a [[:Category:Wiki Engine|wiki engine]] in their own right. Indeed, [[WikiMatrix]] now lists Wikia as a separate engine [http://www.wikimatrix.org/wiki/Wikia:intro here] (sadly, WikiMatrix seems offline at the moment). To list all individual Wikia wikis in the [[:category:MediaWiki]] is highly distorting, especially to those genuine MediaWiki sites, and especially when [[user:emijrp|emijrp]] finishes his bot trawl through all 200,000 Wikias. IMVHO, I would suggest that it is best to index Wikia wikis under a Wikia wiki engine (especially as there are over 200,000 of them!), and keep the Wikia category a sub-category of MediaWiki. Best regards, --[[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 00:56, 25 November 2012 (PST) | |||
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