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NesClassic Inheritor of the Wing from Flyover Country Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: In another castle
Inheritor of the Wing
#1: Apr 21st 2018 at 7:55:46 PM

In trying to clean a Nightmare Fuel page and relocate Fridge Horror examples I came across a minefield of a Fridge page that contains 202 instances of [[spoiler:, and while I can scrub the first half of the markup out via text replacement tools the end brackets are still a nuisance (and scrubbing those out would require I manually re-add ]] to folder tags, notes, etc.) By Administrivia.Spoilers Off standards each tag should be purged, but I'm not sure what the most efficient tool would be to doing that short of taking half an hour to just do things manually.

How do editors usually go about this stuff? Or should I just suck it up and do it half-manually?

edited 21st Apr '18 7:55:58 PM by NesClassic

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dragonfire5000 from Where gods fear to tread Since: Jan, 2001
#2: Apr 21st 2018 at 8:19:18 PM

Itty Bitty Wiki Tools has a tool that strips all spoiler tags from a page. I've used it once, and I should warn you that it leaves a few ']]' marks on the page if people are potholing stuff behind spoiler tags

edited 21st Apr '18 9:04:42 PM by dragonfire5000

NesClassic Inheritor of the Wing from Flyover Country Since: Dec, 2012 Relationship Status: In another castle
Inheritor of the Wing
#3: Apr 21st 2018 at 8:35:58 PM

Oh, sweet. Thanks!

Will take care with the pothole markup accordingly before running the tool; and it's nice to know about the other tools too.

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#4: Apr 22nd 2018 at 12:52:26 PM

Wait wait wait

We have those?

The amount of times I've wasted doing a lot of that stuff manually and we have tools to folderize, to scrub spoilers, and they are advertised nowhere in the fucking wiki besides the administrativia index?

I'm gonna go scream into a pillow.

edited 22nd Apr '18 12:53:00 PM by Ghilz

Redmess Redmess from Netherlands Since: Feb, 2014
Redmess
#5: Jun 21st 2018 at 4:30:02 PM

Perhaps that would make a good suggested feature for an upcoming update. Have the tools more visible/readily available in the edit window.

Optimism is a duty.
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