This is another case where I'd use "pagefromfile.py".
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot/pagefromfile.py
Modify your pagelist so it has a format like
{{-start-}}
'''Namespace:Pagename1'''
{{subst::Pagename1}} <- note the double colon in case your articles are in
the main namespace.
{{-stop-}}
{{-start-}}
'''Namespace:Pagename2'''
{{subst::Pagename2}}
{{-stop-}}
etc.
You can do that easily with some clever search-and-replace in the text
editor of your choice.
Then call the bot with
python pagefromfile.py -notitle -file:pagelist
This also automatically excludes pages where the page already exist (in case
you're not calling the script with a -force parameter).
Hope that helps!
--zai
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Chris Watkins <[email protected]
> wrote:
> I want to copy (not move) a few hundred pages from one namespace to
> another. Any ideas how?
>
> I think I can do it in two stages - if I can create a page. I'd create each
> page with only the page name, then convert that to a transclusion from the
> mainspace article:
>
> python replace.py -regex ".*" "{{subst:PAGENAME}}" -file:pagelist
> python replace.py -regex ".*" "{{subst::\\1}}" -file:pagelist
>
> But I get the error "Page [[blah blah]] not found" when I run the first
> command. I also tried with "" as the search string in the first line, but
> it's the same. And ideally I'd like it to exclude cases where the page
> already exists.
>
> Any solution? Thanks!
>
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