Thanks Masti,
I just found this at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Replace.py:
-namespace:n
Number of namespace to process. The parameter can be used multiple
times. It works in combination with all other parameters except for the
-start parameter. (If you want to change all pages in a particular
namespace, add the namespace prefix; for example, -start:User:!.)
So I left a note at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pywikipediabot_general_parameters
I get the impression that the longer lists of parameters at
Copyright.py and Replace.py also have a lot of general parameters. if
so, they could be added here. (Took me ages to find an explanation of
the "start:" parameter, and the use of "namespace:", so a more complete
page general parameters would be great.)
I would have done some work myself, but I don't understand which are general and which are not.
Thanks again. I have to say, this is the most helpful tech list I've been on.
Chris
On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 1:40 AM, masti
<mst@warszawa.pl.eu.org> wrote:
Chris Watkins pisze:
> Hi - how do I restrict the bot to making changes in certain namespaces?
> I can comment out certain namespaces in the family file, but that
> doesn't deal with (say) user or user_talk namespaces.
>
> Sorry if that's an obvious question - I thought I saw the answer once,
> but now can't find it.
>
-namespace:xxx
restricts the bot to xxx namespace. I you want it to look for articles
in this namespace use -start:xxx:! for example
masti
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