On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 01:52, Merlijn van Deen <[email protected]> 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!
> > --
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> >
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