I always did that with pagefromfily.py (though you'd have to mod your input file a little).

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Pywikipediabot/pagefromfile.py

--zai

Hi

I use Python frecuently, and today I start working with pywikipediabot, wich is a very good library, by the way.

But I think that the workflow is very out-of-the-python-way. I explain my point:

To make a script that uses this environment, you need to put the code on the main directory of pywikipediabot, or do some links to that directory. But usually, when you use a third-party module on Python, you should have the chance to "install" the module and load it with a simple

import pywikipediabot

or

from pywikipediabot import wikipedia

And doing thins on any directory on your system, without any extra configuration or needed files. I think this could be a nice feature, because it respects the python-way, and gives the chance to distribuite the module much more easier using 'distutils'[1] or even Debian packages

[1] http://docs.python.org/distutils/index.html

Regards,
Pablo Recio

Dear all,

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:

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