User:Movebot

This is a proposed bot created by User:Pyramidhead to change episode titles across the wiki from the current Day X Y:00am-Z:00am to the more correct (as used on Imdb, Wikipedia, et al) Day X: Y:00am-Z:00am.

Some other things I plan to do:

• General style touch-ups (Italicizing 24, Redemption, book titles, graphic novel titles; replacing A.M./a.m./AM with am/pm; etc - maybe episode quotes?)
• Moving all SeasonX templates to the bottom on each episode page
• etc.

Progress

01/03/10, 01:03 PST: Moved all Season 1 pages, quote pages, image categories, replaced episode titles across wiki

01/03/10, 02:50 PST: Moved all Season 2 pages, quote pages, image categories, replaced episode titles across wiki

01/03/10, 04:09 PST: Moved all Season 3 pages, quote pages, image categories, replaced episode titles across wiki

01/03/10, 13:47 PST: Moved all Season 4 pages, quote pages, image categories, replaced episode titles across wiki

01/03/10, 15:37 PST: Moved all Season 5 pages, quote pages, image categories, replaced episode titles across wiki

01/03/10, 17:25 PST: Moved all Season 6 pages, quote pages, image categories, replaced episode titles across wiki

01/03/10, 17:25 PST: Moved all Season 7 pages, quote pages, image categories, replaced episode titles across wiki

01/03/10, late: Moved all season nav templates to bottom of episode pages

01/04/10, 12:30: Added icons to all actor pages missing them

Instructions

Installation

1. First, flag this bot so it won't clutter up the recent activity list
2. Download all of these: Python 2.6.4, Pywikipedia (grab one of the nightly releases), Extra files you'll need
3. Install Python, then unzip everything in Pywikipedia and the extra zip file into the same directory
4. Move 24_family.py into the families directory
5. Open the command prompt, navigate to the directory containing PYTHON.py (most likely C:\Python26 on Windows), enter:

python login.py

and enter password

Replacing titles

The command for replacing the titles in all pages in a particular namespace:

python replace.py -start:namespace:! -fix:colon -always

where namespace is just the name, no quotes. If you're feeling brave, then

python replace.py -xml -fix:colon -always
or
python replace.py -start:! -fix:colon -always

should replace it for every page on the wiki. I'd recommend starting off doing it by category or on a single page, using:

python replace.py -cat:category -fix:colon -always
or
python replace.py -page:pagename -fix:colon -always

just to make sure it works like it should. For reference, -fix:colon refers to a custom replacement element in the file user-fixes.py.

Moving pages

Episode guides

To move all episode pages to their new homes:

python movepages.py -pairs:pairs.txt

You'll be prompted to enter your own password once. Pairs.txt is a text file containing the old and new names in pairs. I'd recommend testing this first by entering

python movepages.py -from:Day_1_12:00am-1:00am -to:Day_1:_12:00am-1:00am
or
python movepages.py -pairs:pairstest.txt

which should just move Day 1 12:00am-1:00am.

Quote pages

python movepages.py -pairs:quotes.txt
or
python movepages.py -pairs:quotestest.txt

Image categories

Unfortunately, I don't believe there is a way to move categories en masse, other than entering the commands for each move into the shell. The basic command is

python category.py move -from:'Images (Day 1 12:00am-1:00am' -to:'Images (Day 1: 12:00am-1:00am)' -batch

This will move everything in the from category to the to category and automatically delete the first one when it's emptied. Categories.txt contains all 168 such commands separated by semicolons; try putting them in a few at a time just to be safe.

Again, I have had no opportunity to test the moving part of this project, so I make no guarantees. --Movebot 22:14, December 15, 2009 (UTC)