Wikipedia:Requests for page importation

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Requests for page importation

This is a place to request that pages be imported with history of pages from other Wikimedia Foundation wikis to here. This might be done if a page was copied and pasted from a WMF wiki to here, or, in the case of the Nostalgia Wikipedia, to make very old revisions accessible. Administrators can import pages from Meta, Commons, the Outreach Wiki, the Test2 Wikipedia site, and the German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Nostalgia Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia (see Phabricator task 22280 for relevant shell permission requests, and to request permissions for importing from more projects). It is also possible to indirectly perform a transwiki import from other projects by using step-wise process through a third project that has a project mapping already created, although using the export/import process may be simpler.

Guidelines for admins

Check the history of the source page before importing. If there are overlapping edits between the source and destination page, import the edits into the MediaWiki talk namespace, since it is very rarely used. Follow this procedure, where "foo" is the title of the page in the English Wikipedia and "bar" is the title of the source page:

1. Import "bar". When asked for the namespace, select "MediaWiki talk".
2. Move "foo" to "MediaWiki talk:bar". When asked whether you want to delete the page, answer yes.
3. From the "move succeeded" window, there is a link to the page history at "MediaWiki talk:bar". Activate it, perhaps in another tab or window, and there will be some text in the form "View or restore xxx deleted edits?". Activate the link associated with that text and undelete the imported edits that you need. The remaining edits will stay safely deleted in the MediaWiki talk namespace.
4. Revert the move you made in step two. Uncheck the box that says "Leave a redirect behind", since redirects from the MediaWiki talk namespace are useless. If you want, you can use the "revert" link in the "move succeeded" window. The page move should go without a hitch.

The same procedure can be used when there are no overlapping edits, but in this case, it's best to move the page first, so the import appears in the page history.

In general, do not use the "assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally", leaving this off will indicate in the history the project the edits came from and you won't have to worry about non-created accounts here.

See User:Graham87/Import for guidelines on importing from the Nostalgia Wikipedia. There is a log of all page imports at Special:Log/import.

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Import of bn:চিত্র:জুবায়ের_আহমেদ_হত্যাকাণ্ড,_জুবায়েরের_ছবি.jpg to File:Jubayer's Photo.jpg

• Language: bn:চিত্র:জুবায়ের_আহমেদ_হত্যাকাণ্ড,_জুবায়েরের_ছবি.jpg
• New name: File:Jubayer's Photo.jpg
• Note: Import the image from bn Wikipedia to here.--C⚛smLearner ^💬🔬 22:20, 15 November 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator: @CosmLearner: not done; apart from the fact that I don't deal with images much due to my blindness, the normal procedure would be reuploading, seeing as you didn't actually make the image. please reupload it here with an English non-free use rationale, etc. Graham87 (talk) 05:25, 16 November 2024 (UTC)

  Agree here. We wouldn't transwiki an image, as this file appears to only be available as fair-use, an appropriate use and fair-use declaration is necessary for English Wikipedia must also be attached. (Which also means that this is going to need to be appropriately added to an article immediately as well.) — xaosflux ^Talk 15:03, 20 November 2024 (UTC)

Import of de:Scientific Diving Center Freiberg to User:Richard Gruhn/Scientific Diving Center Freiberg

• Language: de:Scientific Diving Center Freiberg
• New name: User:Richard Gruhn/Scientific Diving Center Freiberg
• Note: translation of the German article "Scientific Diving Center Freiberg" into a english article with the same name "Scientific Diving Center Freiberg"--Richard Gruhn (talk) 10:22, 21 November 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator:  Doing... — xaosflux ^Talk 14:26, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

   Done @Richard Gruhn: your import is ready. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:31, 21 November 2024 (UTC)

Import of de:Yūsha Shōkan ni Makikomareta kedo, Isekai wa Heiwa deshita to I Got Caught Up in a Hero Summons, but the Other World Was at Piece!

• Language: de:Yūsha Shōkan ni Makikomareta kedo, Isekai wa Heiwa deshita
• New name: I Got Caught Up in a Hero Summons, but the Other World Was at Piece!
• Note: Please import the version history. Thank you! :-) --Goroth (talk) 23:02, 29 November 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing administrator:  Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 00:07, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

Import of de:ZHAW School of Management and Law to ZHAW School of Management and Law

• Language: de:ZHAW School of Management and Law
• New name: ZHAW School of Management and Law
• Note: --SML KOM (talk) 13:12, 2 December 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing user: I'm not particularly comfortable with this one; you have little experience on any Wikipedia addition, have created the article yourself on the German Wikipedia, and therefore probably have a conflict of interest. Other users who can import pages could weigh in if they want though. Graham87 (talk) 14:29, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

  Not done for now Feel free to re-request if an article is actually created on the English Wikipedia and survives new page patrol. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 17:05, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

  To weigh in a bit here, I'm not sure this is necessarily appropriate for the main namespace (based on it being in a fully different language), but I don't know that I see a problem with tossing it into user or draftspace. I'll note the main university itself does have a fairly stable article at Zurich University of Applied Sciences/ZHAW. Then again, I could be off base. My read of WP:COI though, is that it should be encouraged to put articles through AFC, which putting it in the draft namespace would encourage. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 03:12, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

  Oh yeah there's the namespace issue too. I have a general spiel about how non-English articles shouldn't be in the main namespace, and generally advise people that they can either have the page imported into their userspace or create the article first. Graham87 (talk) 04:14, 3 December 2024 (UTC)

  @SML KOM: Would you want this imported into your userspace or the draft space by chance? We don't generally import untranslated articles into the main namespace directly.

  Pppery and Graham87, I'm not sure there's any ill intent behind this request, and if it waits until the article goes through AFC/NPP, overlapping revisions would possibly be created on dewiki in the meantime. On the other hand, I'm not going to do this if there's serious disagreement with it, so would either of you have a problem with it being put into the user's userspace/draft space? EggRoll97 ^(talk) 04:41, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

  I'm not worried by overlapping revisions - I used the import-merge-delete trick for the hero summons case above which had them. And I think the burden should be on SML KOM to prove Graham87's concerns wrong, not on us to pamper someone whose only edit is to request a highly unusual activity.

  You're proving my comment in your request for transwiki importer right. * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 04:47, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

  Yes this re the burden and pampering. This is not the German Wikipedia. Graham87 (talk) 05:39, 4 December 2024 (UTC)

Import of commons:Template:PD-Somalia to Template:PD-Somalia

• Language: commons:Template:PD-Somalia
• New name: Template:PD-Somalia
• Note: We currently lack a Somalia PD template, as far as I can tell. But I do think that this one would be useful on the English Wikipedia for edge cases like those in the discussion at Wikipedia:Files_for_discussion/2024_November_25#File:Mogadishu_in_2017.jpg. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 22:06, 5 December 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing user: This template was previously deleted at TfD: Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2017_February_2#Template:PD-Somalia. It would probably be better to undelete rather than import if something needs to be done here, but is there some reason that file can't be at Commons? * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 22:35, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

  That is a good question. I think that the c:COM:PRP might not love the piecewise rationale for keeping, but it makes sense enwiki-wise. — Red-tailed hawk _(nest) 04:34, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

  Agree, seems better to just undelete the template locally than import. I imagine it would be useful for any cases where Commons doesn't want it there, but we want to use it on enwiki, especially given Somalia apparently has no existing enforceable copyright law according to the template, so there's likely at least a non-zero chance that an image could run afoul of Commons' PRP, but still be just fine here. EggRoll97 ^(talk) 08:15, 6 December 2024 (UTC)

Import of meta:Template:Community banned user to Template:Globally banned user

• Language: meta:Template:Community banned user
• New name: Template:Globally banned user
• Note: I created this template based on the template code from Meta-Wiki, but was then unaware of the attribution requirements. I request importation of pre-2021 revisions to resolve this problem. --JJP_Master (she/they) 02:10, 14 December 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing user:  Done * Pppery * _{it has begun...} 02:14, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

Import of w:de:Benutzer:Ghst kommunikation/Hertie Foundation to Hertie Foundation

• Language: de.wikipedia.org:Benutzer:Ghst kommunikation/Hertie Foundation
• New name: Hertie Foundation
• Note: There is already a German article on the Hertie Foundation (see Hertie Stiftung, German Wikipedia). We would like to create an English article on this and have already prepared it under Benutzer:Ghst kommunikation/Hertie Foundation. We would be delighted if someone could import it into the English Wikipedia. --Ghst kommunikation (talk) 14:43, 19 December 2024 (UTC)
• Note by importing user:  Not done for many reasons, first is this a translation or a fork? If a fork you can just publish here directly. However, we would not bring this directly to an article here due to your undeclared local conflict of interest with this topic. You would need to comply with all of this projects Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and Wikipedia:Paid-contribution disclosure processes first. — xaosflux ^Talk 17:29, 19 December 2024 (UTC)