following up on my own question: do this using semantic inline queries
as follows.
to move all pages in the category "collaborator" into the namespace
"collaborator" use the maintance script moveBatch:
php moveBatch.php -u tag -r new-namespace -i 1 collMoveList.txt
for which one may generate the collMoveList with the following semantic
query:
{{#ask:[[Category:Collaborator]]
|?mainlabel
|?#=
|format=template
|template=formatMovePages
|limit=5000}}
the template:formatMovePages looks like this
{{{1}}}|Collaborator:{{{1}}}<br>
cheers tomy
Thomas Alexander Gerds <[email protected]> writes:
> I would like to add a prefix to the title of many pages, in order to
> move them to a new namespace. the pages are all in the same category
> so
> in principle the replace text extension would be the tool. however,
> since replace text extension does not support regular expressions (I
> need to match the start of the title and replace it with the prefix)
> ...
>
> any help/solutions are very much appreciated!
>
> tomy
>
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