Removing them for copyright reasons sounds like a task for delete.py to me. Try
delete.py -file:pagelist.txt -summary:"Copyright reasons" using replace.py, try replace.py -file:pagelist.txt -regex -dotall ".*" "" For more information, see http://www.regular-expressions.info/python.html and delete.py -help replace.py -help and/or check your pywikipedia dir for interesting scripts ;) --Merlijn On Mon, August 3, 2009 8:00 pm, Chris Watkins wrote: > Is there a way I can use replace.py to replace an entire page with certain > text? There are pages I need to remove for copyright reasons, and I can > list > them in a file (to call with "-file:pagelist.txt"). > > I tried using *, for the search text, with and without quotation marks, > but > it didn't work - the command I used was of this form: > > $ python replace.py -regex "*" "{{XYZ}}" -file:filelist.txt > > Thanks! > -- > Chris Watkins > > Appropedia.org - Sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. > > identi.ca/appropedia / twitter.com/appropedia > blogs.appropedia.org > > I like this: five.sentenc.es > _______________________________________________ > Pywikipedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l > _______________________________________________ Pywikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/pywikipedia-l
