Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Wikisource/memoRegex

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memoRegex

Problem: OCR editing needs lots of work-specific regex substitutions, and it would be great to save them, and to share them with any other user. Regex shared substitutions are too very useful to armonize formatting into all pages of a work.
Who would benefit: all users (the unexperienced ones could use complex regex subsitutions, tested by experienced ones)
Proposed solution: it.wikisource uses it:s:MediaWiki:Gadget-memoRegex.js, that does the job (it optionally saves regex substitutions tested with a it.source Find & Replace tool, so that they can be called by any other user with a click while editing pages of the same Index). The idea should be tested, refined and applied to a deep revision of central Find and Replace tool.
More comments: The tool has been tested into different projects.
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Proposer: Alex brollo (talk) 07:33, 25 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Actually this is very useful. It's an extension to a workaround to solve the search & replace bug that affects all Wikisource projects. If reimplementing the Search & Replace is retained as a solution, "memoRegex" should be considered as part of the implementation. --Ruthven (msg) 18:51, 4 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]