User:TalBot/erie-move.py

Script used to move Experimental researches in electricity related pages to ProofreadPage format, for reference. Uses python and the pywikipedia library.
 * 1) ! /usr/bin/env python
 * 2) _*_ coding: utf8 _*_
 * 3) Move the Experimental researches in electricity pages to ProofreadPage
 * 4) format; place soft redirects; control transclusion
 * 5) run with args "-log -putthrottle:xx"
 * 6) Copyright (C) 2006, GrafZahl (en.wikisource.org user)
 * 7) Licence: GPLv2
 * 1) Copyright (C) 2006, GrafZahl (en.wikisource.org user)
 * 2) Licence: GPLv2
 * 1) Licence: GPLv2
 * 1) Licence: GPLv2

import wikipedia


 * 1) Handle args

args = wikipedia.handleArgs

for arg in args: print u'Ignoring unrecognised argument: %s\n' % arg


 * 1) basic text tokens, etc.

numpages = 357 basename = u'Experimental_researches_in_electricity' baseoverwrite = u'"Page:Experimental_researches_in_electricity_%03d.jpg"' basesearch = u'\\{\\{MFerie\\|%03d\\|%03d\\|%03d\\}\\}' basereplace = u' ' movesumm = u'[bot] conversion to ProofreadPage naming conventions' oversumm = u'[bot] dated soft redirect' replacesumm = u'[bot] protecting navigation template from transclusion'


 * 1) Start operation

site = wikipedia.getSite pagenos = range(1, 51) + range(350, 358)

for n in pagenos: # Get all strings straight if n > 1: nminus = n - 1 else: nminus = 1 if n < numpages: nplus = n + 1 else: nplus = numpages oldpage = (basename + u'/%03d') % n	newpage = (u'Page:' + basename + u'_%03d.jpg') % n	overwrite = baseoverwrite % n	search = basesearch % ( nminus, n, nplus ) replace = basereplace % ( nminus, n, nplus ) # Step 1: Move oldpage to newpage print 'Moving %s to %s\n' % ( oldpage, newpage ) page = wikipedia.Page(site, oldpage) try: page.move(newpage, movesumm) except wikipedia.Error: print 'Page move FAILED\n' raise # Step 2: Place soft redirect over oldpage print 'Placing soft redirect over %s\n' % oldpage page = wikipedia.Page(site, oldpage) try: page.put(overwrite, oversumm, None, False) except wikipedia.Error: print 'Placing soft redirect FAILED\n' # Go on anyway # Step 3: Text replacement print 'Replacing %s with %s in %s\n' % ( search, replace, newpage ) page = wikipedia.Page(site, newpage) try: text = page.get text = wikipedia.replaceExceptMathNowikiAndComments(text, search, replace) page.put(text, replacesumm, None, False) except wikipedia.Error: print 'Text replacement FAILED\n'