Badwiki.py

This is a pywikipedia script, developed to support maintenance of this site.

I want to thank a mysterious user (Special:Contributions/80.126.114.182) for finding some bad auto-wiki'd text. This is a modified version of changelink.py to replace one wiki string with an alternate string that is NOT wiki.

Source code

import re, sys
from pywikipedia import wikipedia

oldname = sys.argv[1]
newname = sys.argv[2]

site = wikipedia.getSite()
page = wikipedia.Page(site=site, title=oldname)
links = page.getReferences()

print "There are a total of %s related articles that need to be updated" % len(links)

for eachPage in links:
        wikitext = eachPage.get()
        newtext = re.compile("\[\[" + oldname + "\]\]").sub(newname, wikitext)
        try:
                eachPage.put(newtext=newtext, \
                        comment="[[pywikipedia]] assisted cleanup -> removing auto-wiki'd " + \
                        oldname + " with " +  newname, minorEdit=True)
        except Exception:
                print "Unable to edit " +eachPage.aslink()

How to run it

To run the script, it needs two arguments. (Use quotation marks to escape the shell).

% python badwiki.py "Foo Bar" "FooBar"

It will find every article pointed at Foo Bar, substitue FooBar without wiki tags, and then write it as a minor edit. This also helps reduce the number of Special:Wantedpages.