This is another case where I'd use "pagefromfile.py".
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot/pagefromfile.py
Modify your pagelist so it has a format like
{{-start-}}
'''Namespace:Pagename1'''
{{subst::Pagename1}} <- note the double colon in case your articles are in
the main namespace.
{{-stop-}}
{{-start-}}
'''Namespace:Pagename2'''
{{subst::Pagename2}}
{{-stop-}}
etc.
You can do that easily with some clever search-and-replace in the text
editor of your choice.
Then call the bot with
python pagefromfile.py -notitle -file:pagelist
This also automatically excludes pages where the page already exist (in case
you're not calling the script with a -force parameter).
Hope that helps!
--zai
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy(a)appropedia.org
wrote:
I want to copy (not move) a few hundred pages from one
namespace to
another. Any ideas how?
I think I can do it in two stages - if I can create a page. I'd create each
page with only the page name, then convert that to a transclusion from the
mainspace article:
python replace.py -regex ".*" "{{subst:PAGENAME}}" -file:pagelist
python replace.py -regex ".*" "{{subst::\\1}}" -file:pagelist
But I get the error "Page [[blah blah]] not found" when I run the first
command. I also tried with "" as the search string in the first line, but
it's the same. And ideally I'd like it to exclude cases where the page
already exists.
Any solution? Thanks!
--
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