Wikipedia talk:Requests for page importation

Addition to Special:Import

Hello! I have started an RfC over at VPP regarding adding commons as a wiki source to Special:Import. Feel free to comment over there! --17:02, 16 January 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheSandDoctor (talk • contribs)

Default procedure to import foreign language article

From the description and the examples I do not yet understand the preferred procedure how to import an article from another language version. I would have assumed it is importing to a draft version and then translate it there?! --KnightMove (talk) 06:11, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

@KnightMove: It can be imported untranslated as a draft or in userspace, then translated to English and moved to mainspace. Or create the article in English and have the history imported after. Personally, I don't have a preference between those. — JJMC89 (T·C) 06:20, 28 May 2020 (UTC)

Import bug T275031

Tracked in Phabricator
Task T275031
Resolved

@Graham87: (et al.) FYI, I've opened bug phab:T275031; import to a subpage appears to be failing, resulting in the page being imported to the wrong location. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:28, 17 February 2021 (UTC)

• A patch has been created to fix this, expected to be rolled out for next week. If we have an urgent import it can be imported but it will go to the default space only - and may spoil workflows such as new page patrolling. — xaosflux ^Talk 11:26, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
• Worked in testwiki, verifying here. — xaosflux ^Talk 19:42, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

  Not yet, will check again tomorrow - train is a little late. (Ping to @MyRobotron:) — xaosflux ^Talk 19:47, 25 February 2021 (UTC)

• This issue is resolved, imports are in process. — xaosflux ^Talk 14:24, 26 February 2021 (UTC)

Backlog of requests from TJB95

@Graham87: what do you think about all the open requests from TJB95? — xaosflux ^Talk 13:42, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Xaosflux: I'm not a fan; see my comment at Wikipedia:Requests for page importation#Import of de:B3 Biennale des bewegten Bildes 2013 to User:TJB95/B3 Biennial of the Moving Image 2013. Draft:2020 B3 Biennial of the Moving Image has been declined. Graham87 15:38, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

@Bogger: any comments here - this is about importing pages for translating, we're usually quite lenient on that process since it isn't direct to an article - but it is a waste if everything will just be deleted. — xaosflux ^Talk 16:01, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

hmm, I'm on holidays at the moment, but if someone could move the raw text(s) to my sandbox, ("/TodoList" or similar). I'll finish it next week. Bogger (talk) 16:58, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Your user name

Strikes again... this [1] pointed to me instead of you. It's not malicious -- some editors (or perhaps their offline edit software?) strip your fancy name and turn it into mine.

So... you'll probably miss some of your mail if you keep the two-tone name. Graham (talk) 17:54, 4 September 2023 (UTC)

@Graham: Thanks, but how come you posted here? In this case it was a sockpuppet of a user with lots of editing issues and this mixup probably had nothing to do with my signature (because I didn't sign anything there). Graham87 02:09, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Well, to be honest, that was my first direct message to another user. Is there a different format that's preferred? Graham (talk) 18:02, 9 September 2023 (UTC)

@Graham: You write messages on people's user talk pages as you did some time back on mine. Graham87 02:41, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Isn't this your talk page? Graham (talk) 06:05, 10 September 2023 (UTC)

Oh, I see now that it isn't. Sorry about that -- I clearly wasn't paying attention. Graham (talk) 06:07, 10 September 2023 (UTC)