On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 01:52, Merlijn van Deen valhallasw@arctus.nl wrote:

Removing them for copyright reasons sounds like a task for delete.py to me. Try

delete.py -file:pagelist.txt -summary:"Copyright reasons"

Good suggestion. I tried replace.py because we wanted to keep the history, while we discuss the copyright.

using replace.py, try

replace.py -file:pagelist.txt -regex -dotall ".*" ""

For more information, see http://www.regular-expressions.info/python.htmland delete.py -help replace.py -help

Thanks for the help - I hadn't been able to figure that out.

Unfortunately it stalls - I get:

$ python replace.py -cat:"The Transition Handbook" -regex -dotall ".*" "{{TTH removed}}/n/n[[Category:The Transition Handbook]]" Getting [[Category:The Transition Handbook]]... Getting 26 pages from appropedia:en...

and then nothing happens. I tried changing various things, with no luck, so I'm just going to do it manually.

Thanks anyway.

Chris

and/or check your pywikipedia dir for interesting scripts ;)

--Merlijn

On Mon, August 3, 2009 8:00 pm, Chris Watkins wrote:

...

Is there a way I can use replace.py to replace an entire page with

certain

...

text? There are pages I need to remove for copyright reasons, and I can list them in a file (to call with "-file:pagelist.txt").

I tried using *, for the search text, with and without quotation marks, but it didn't work - the command I used was of this form:

$ python replace.py -regex "*" "{{XYZ}}" -file:filelist.txt

Thanks!

Chris Watkins

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