vorticity Wrote:The big pink box usually means that the syntax is invalid. Usually it means I left off the trailing slash, or I forgot to escape a slash inside the expression.
That said MassEditRegex does not work on larger sets of pages, even in "run in browser" mode. Not sure what the solution is yet. I'd just run them in my bot, but apparently Mediawiki has changed the login system again, and the guy maintaining the Perl bot is tired of dealing with the constantly changing API.
It worked eventually for the 1500+ category, however it itself required that I re-kick it into action multiple times because it died out after 300 edits done.