Okay, Plan B (which we all use anyway, after all, so why even try to come up with a plan A, eh?):
If I copy the current (locked, admin only) [article] page contents to the (open) [discussion] page to start off our "sort of edit every page" wiki, is there a neat, fast MySQL/PHPMyAdmin command to copy the database table contents of [article] into the table for [discussion] the moment before we announce and go live, so the discussion pages start as pure copies of the articles? Any link to such a routine?
(Otherwise, Plan C is to hand cut and paste - argh!) Thanks.