I would suggest using Special:Export and Special:Import, and just changing
<title>namespace: to <title>new namespace:. I'm not quite sure what happens
with the id parameters thought; you might want to strip those.

-Merlijn

On 26 March 2010 07:04, 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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