python pagegenerators.py -titleregex:[^A-Za-z0-9-\s]+ (trying to make it say: dont match any alphabets, numbers, spaces and dashes) And it only brings up titles with begin a " (quotation mark) , but it misses titles that have the " somewhere in the middle. Then I remove the ^ for the regex and see what that does, and it gets all titles including those which have " and so on. python pagegenerators.py -titleregex:[A-Za-z0-9-\s]+ Its probably my regex that is flawed :). ________________________________ From: Eric K <ek79501(a)yahoo.com> To: Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 1:40 AM Subject: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Need help for: Page rename / insert text / update links Thanks, I'm learning! I tried step one for generating the title list. It was saying "incomplete XML data". It was doing a text replace and I was able to make it work by doing "-debug" but it was slow. Then I found out this command: python pagegenerators.py -titleregex:apple http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/pagegenerators.py (there is no -save option for this script but if I add "> filelist.txt" at the end, it outputs the screen output to that text file, which works) So this one is only working on the page titles (so its quicker) and it does work, e.g. for the above, it will list any pages beginning with the word "apple". I actually found there's other characters in the database, so the best way would be to do this kind of search: - If a page contains any character which is not: --- alphanumeric --- underscore --- dash --- space Then include that page in the list. So "Hello 123" would be excluded but "Hello 123$" would be included. The pagegenerators.py does not have an "exclude" option like the "replace.py" had. Do you know of a regex that will work? ________________________________ From: Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com> To: Eric K <ek79501(a)yahoo.com> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 10:09 PM Subject: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Need help for: Page rename / insert text / update links Good luck! :-) My regex skills are quite rudimentary, so be cautious when doing the replacement step 5 -- the regexes may catch something they shouldn't. Please let me know how it goes! :-) Den 04:43 15. januar 2012 skrev Eric K <ek79501(a)yahoo.com> følgende: Hi John, wow, that really is awesome, that you were able to do this with the provided scripts. I could never have come up with that.  I'll try this right away and let you know how it goes. > > > > > > > >________________________________ > From: Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby(a)gmail.com> >To: Eric K <ek79501(a)yahoo.com>om>; Pywikipedia discussion list <pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> >Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 8:47 PM >Subject: Re: [Pywikipedia-l] Need help for: Page rename / insert text / update links > > > > >2012/1/15 Eric K <ek79501(a)yahoo.com> > >Hi guys, >>I just installed the pywikipedia bot on my wiki yesterday. I'm new to Python but I can try learn it since I'm familiar with PHP. It would take me a while though to make this first bot since I'm new to the language. The tasks are pretty straightforward. I would like the bot to run without any user input and do all of this by itself: >> >> >>1. For every page on the wiki, check if it has these three characters: ( , ) , : . Any page containing any of these characters (curly brackets and colon) will be moved to a new title. The original title is var_1. >> >> > >> >>2. For the new title, brackets are simply deleted, and the : (colon) is replaced with a " - " (a dash with a space on each side). The new title generated is var_2. >> > >> >>3. Insert this text at the top of this page: {{page_rename|var_1}}, and save page. >>  > >> >>4. Find any existing links on the site to this page which would be in the format of [[var_1]], and change them to [[var_2|var_1]]. >> >> >>I don't need any menus or other functionality. Is something something pretty straightforward to make? I would appreciate any tips/help and if its something that can be made pretty easily, I would be really thankful if someone could do this for me or give me a good start. >>I've looked at some of existing pywikipedia bot scripts (basic.py, movepages.py) but none of them would work for me and being new to Python, it would take me a long time to do what I need but in any case I will learn a lot in this first attempt. >> >> >> >>thanksEric >>_______________________________________________ >>Pywikipedia-l mailing list >>Pywikipedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org >>https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l >> >> >  >This is how I would do it. It is probably a hacky solution, and there may be better/more efficient ways of doing it, but it should work. > >Step 1: Getting list of pages to change > >Run this line: > > >python replace.py -regex -requiretitle:"\(|\)|:" "[A-Za-z0-9]" "test" -save:Pagestoberenamed.txt -start:! > >Press "a" when it prompts. > >This will not change anything, only save a list of all pages that

> >Step 2: Put that template on top of the pages > >Run this line: > >python add_text.py -up -text:"{{page_rename|{{subst:PAGENAME}}}}" -file:Pagestoberenamed.txt > >Step 3: Creating list for renaming files > >Open the file "Pagestoberenamed.txt" in a regex-supporting text editor and use the follow regex replacements: > >Replace: > >#\[\[([^:]*):([^\]]*)\]\] >with > >[[\1:\2]] [[\1 - \2]] > >

> >#\[\[([^\(]*)\(([^\)]*)\)([^\]]*)\]\] >

> >[[\1(\2)\3]] [[\1\2\3]] > > >

> >python replace.py -page:SANDBOX -regex

> >Save the text as Pagerenaming.txt > > >

> >Step 4: Moving the pages > >Run this line: > >python movepages.py -pairs:Pagerenaming.txt > >It will not prompt you, it will move the pages as specified in Pagerenaming.txt >If you do not want to have redirects from the old page names, use

> >Step 5: Fixing links >Links can be fixed using this line: > >python replace.py -regex

-- mvh Jon Harald Søby