ShakespeareFan00 created this task.
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TASK DESCRIPTION
**Feature summary** (what you would like to be able to do and where):
-grepnot:regexpr filter to exclude pages containing the regular expression
provided when specifying filters for the listpage script in pywikibot
**Use case(s)** (list the steps that you performed to discover that problem,
and describe the actual underlying problem which you want to solve. Do not
describe only a solution):
Recently i was wanting to do a query to find Pages on Wikisource, that do not
contain a specific string, namely '\<pages'
I can use a command like:-
pwb.py listpages -ns:0 -usercontribs:"ShakespeareFan00" -intersect
-titleregexnot:"1911" -grep:"\<pages" -lang:en -family:wikisource
-format:"{page.loc_title}" | sort > checkpages_IP
What I cannot currently do is :-
pwb.py listpages -ns:0 -usercontribs:"ShakespeareFan00" -intersect
-titleregexnot:"1911" -grepnot:"\<pages" -lang:en -family:wikisource
-format:"{page.loc_title}" | sort > checkpages_IP
To generate a list of pages not containing the regular expression concerned.
In this instance I was attempting to find a list of my edits to Main namespace
that did not contain a pages tag, so I could match them up with Index: and
convert them to be scan-backed using page transclusion.
**Benefits** (why should this be implemented?):
Whilst manually writing regular expressions to exclude certain phrases ( with
negative lookahead?) is feasible, it's far harder than writing expressions to
include them, thusly it's faster to write for positive regexps, and have the
exclusion implemented in the filter rather than having to write complicated
expressions manually.
TASK DETAIL
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T309270
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