[Pywikipedia-l] How to mass rename articles?

[Alex Brollo]

2010/8/10 Bináris <wikiposta at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> we got a request to rename a lot of articles in huwiki. See
> http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikip%C3%A9dia:Botgazd%C3%A1k_%C3%BCzen%C5%91fala&curid=69093&diff=8179481&oldid=8178513#G.C5.91zmozdonyok_sz.C3.B3cikk-c.C3.ADmei
> All the "0" chars in titles mean "any digit". As far as I see, move.py does
> not handle regexps in the way replace.py does, although I would just need
> this feature.
>
> How would you solve this problem?
> Earlier in another problem I generated "move X Y" lines with Excel, and put
> them in a batch file, calling move.py as many times as the number of
> articles to rename, what is not too nice, but now I don't know all the
> original titles, only patterns.
>
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> Bináris
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Use movepages.py, with -pairs parameter. It will read a text file, where old
names and new names are paired linke this:
[[old name1]] [[new name1]]
[[old name2]] [[new name2]]
....

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot/movepages.py

Alex


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