I would suggest using Special:Export and Special:Import, and just changing <title>namespace: to <title>new namespace:. I'm not quite sure what happens with the id parameters thought; you might want to strip those.

-Merlijn

On 26 March 2010 07:04, Chris Watkins <chriswaterguy@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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