Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Wikisource/Ability to perform batch tasks on all (or selected) pages in a work

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Ability to perform batch tasks on all (or selected) pages in a work

Problem: Sometimes we need to make an identical change to a large number of pages in a a work. At present, the only solution is to ask a bot editor to make the change.
Proposed solution: Something akin to VisualFileChange.js on Wikimedia Commons.
Who would benefit: Wikisource editors
More comments:
Phabricator tickets: T289506
Proposer: Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:31, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You may also be interested in AutoWikiBrowser. It can find and replace texts in several pages, add code to the beginning or end of several pages, add/remove/substitute categories on several pages, etc. — ElioPrrl (talk) 20:24, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
@Pigsonthewing: Thank you for your proposal. Would you mind being a bit more specific about what kind of changes you are referring to? Thanks DMaza (WMF) (talk) 16:01, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
- I'm thinking initially of complex find & replace actions (as I said, like those in Commons 'perform batch task'). For example, I recently had a work with something like {{rh||LOREM IPSUM DOLOR SIT AMET|}} on half the pages and {{rh||{{uc|Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet}}|}} on the other half, and I wanted to standardise them to the latter. In another example, suppose one transcriber had used {{ls}} in half the pages, and another transcriber had just used "s". We might want to replace all the templates with plain text. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:19, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Just a side note, this can be done easily with WP:JWB and some basic knowledge of RegExp. AFAIK, JWB works on all public Wikimedia wikis as long as the pages are technically edit-able and you have AWB access. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 22:00, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Support Mike Peel (talk) 18:52, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support This should be a native feature. Lectrician1 (talk) 02:06, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support AutoWikiBrowser is nice and powerful but something integrated in Wikisources would be better. VIGNERON * ^discut. 16:20, 29 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Agus Damanik (talk) 01:33, 30 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 00:10, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support JAn Dudík (talk) 21:34, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thibaut (talk) 16:04, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support strongly support Akme (talk) 17:49, 1 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support εΔ ω 08:26, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
Support - Darwin ^Ahoy! 00:36, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thingofme (talk) 02:37, 5 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 10:54, 6 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Ayumu Ozaki (talk) 04:17, 7 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Bebiezaza (talk) 08:02, 8 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Support Sohom Datta (talk) 13:56, 11 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]