bump.

Is it possible to do it this way?:

1. Recognize the pattern where the term is already wikilinked, and then skip that page; and then 2. If the wikilinked term doesn't already exist, *then* perform the search and replace operation.

If so, how could I do that? Do I need a different bot from replace.py?

Thanks, Chris

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 20:12, Chris Watkins chriswaterguy@appropedia.orgwrote:

*Context:

Thanks to the helpful people on this list, I've now got a replace.py bot which successfully adds wikilinks to key terms. E.g. to wikilink "sustainability", the command I'm using is (from the CLI, within the Pywikipediabot directory):

python replace.py -regex "(?s)sustainability(.*$)" "[[sustainability]]\1" -xml:currentdump.xml -exceptinsidetag:link -exceptinsidetag:hyperlink -exceptinsidetag:header -namespace:0 -namespace:4 -namespace:102

This code finds the first occurrence of the term sustainability that is not wikilinked, and replaces it with [[sustainability]]. (I don't understand the regex stuff, but I can copy and paste.)

*Question:

If the first occurrence of the term sustainability is already wikilinked, it goes on to wikilink the second occurrence. I actually only want the first term linked, so I would prefer that it skips the page in this case.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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