Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1257201-20180715061226

On Wikipedia, some editors use automated tools to make editing easier. I'm wondering if such tools are available for this wiki (or possibly for wikia in general)? And if so, how does one get permission to use them?

Here is why I am asking. to #173 had Martian Manhunter stories in them. Some of these issues had three stories; some had two. The MM story was occasionally the first, but usually the last. This wiki has articles on these issues, but many of them have the stories mixed up: some are in the wrong order, and some stories are missing. I was thinking about fixing this, but changing the order of stories (or inserting a story) in an issue takes a lot of fixing: the 1's, 2's, and 3's in block beginning with Editor1_1, the block with StoryTitle1 and Synopsis1, and then Appearing1 have to be switched around. And I can't just do a straight search-replace, because if a story is listed as first and I have to make it third, I can't just replace all 1's with 3's, because that would change "Penciler1_1" to "Penciler3_3", but the goal would be to change it to "Penciler3_1".

Is there a tool that can do this easily? 