Jim, That is marvellous. Actually I went to create the home page for the new section and there it was already... for a while I thought I was dreaming.. :)
I will try to reproduce what you did. Thanks for the help and the tips - I will follow that up. David Leeming -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Tittsler Sent: Sunday, 20 June 2010 10:59 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WikiEducator] Tech question on duplicating multiple pages On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 05:43, D Leeming <[email protected]> wrote: > I am going to duplicate a set of pages I created for an OLPC project in one > country for a similar project in another. The pages are at > http://www.wikieducator.org/OLPC_Tuvalu > > Are there any tricks to do this quickly? I.e. create new home page such as If you are comfortable with a programming language, you can probably find a client library that exploits the MediaWiki API to allow scripting this sort of thing. The mwclient library for Python is one example. http://mwclient.sourceforge.net/ Using mwclient, I made a small script that copied all of the OLPC Tuvalu pages into OLPC Kosrae pages with only the most trivial changes to the wikitext. Alternatively the script could blank the pages or make other more extensive automated changes to the text. Source: http://WikiEducator.org/OLPC_Tuvalu Destination: http://WikiEducator.org/OLPC_Kosrae Sample script: http://wikieducator.org/User:JimTittsler/CopyPagesExample If you would like to take advantage of the API and scripting, please join the wikieducator-tech mailing list and ask to have a user with the 'bot' flag. http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator-tech Or if it is a once in a blue moon sort of thing, just ask one of the tech users to script it for you. :-) Jim Fiordland, New Zealand -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
