Wikipedia:Requests for page importation

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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 bg:Силистар (защитена местност) to Silistar[edit]

red-outlined triangle containing exclamation point There has been a mistake. The English article's name is en:Silistar, not en:Силистар (защитена местност). bg:Силистар (защитена местност) should be imported to en:Silistar; and en:Силистар (защитена местност) should be deleted. --Fippe (talk) 16:49, 1 August 2021 (UTC)
Oops, sorry about that, all fixed now. Graham87 04:31, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Import of de:Göhrde (gemeindefreies Gebiet) to Göhrde (unincorporated area)[edit]


Import of de:Boffzen (gemeindefreies Gebiet) to Boffzen (unincorporated area)[edit]


Import of de:Daimler und Benz Stiftung to User:MiBlanche/sandbox[edit]


Import of de:Luca (Webvideoproduzent) to User:Tobiasi0/Luca Scharpenberg[edit]

Import of de:Rewinside to User:Tobiasi0/Rewinside[edit]


Import of de:Tim Hendrik Walter to User:Tobiasi0/Tim Hendrik Walter[edit]

Import of de:Kaufen für die Müllhalde to User:! Bikkit !/The Light Bulb Conspiracy[edit]

Why did you drop and then remove the article? Is there a problem? ! Bikkit ! (talk) 11:07, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
@! Bikkit !: everything seems fine, you can continue from any version in the page history by clicking on it, then clicking edit. Best regards, — xaosflux Talk 12:07, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
@! Bikkit !: I wasn't sure what you wanted to do with the placeholder text you created at that link, so I reverted to it to givey ou a fresh start. In the future, there's no need for such placeholder text. Graham87 14:19, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
OK! Thanks, everything's fine! Must go, got work... ! Bikkit ! (talk) 15:30, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Import of de:David Nelting to User:Laetitiadp/David Nelting[edit]

  • Language: [http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=David+Nelting&action=history de:David Nelting]
  • New name: laetitiadp/new_article_title
  • Note: --Laetitiadp (talk) 10:17, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Note by importing administrator: On hold Possible WP:COI based on the dewiki summary. @Laetitiadp: please review Wikipedia:Conflict of interest and acknowledge you are aware of our requirements for editing articles about topics you may have a conflict of interest with. — xaosflux Talk 12:10, 7 August 2021 (UTC)

Import of de:Cosima Dannoritzer to User:Minotaurus_in_Berlin/CD[edit]


Import of de:Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung to Draft:Moskauer Deutsche Zeitung[edit]

Import of de:Vorlage:Abgeordnetenwatch/Doku to Template:Abgeordnetenwatch/doc[edit]


Import of de:Vorlage:Abgeordnetenwatch to Template:Abgeordnetenwatch[edit]

@Fippe: Not done; we can't dump non-English tempklates straight in to the template namespace. It's probably best inn this case to do the translations of both the template and documentation pages and then ask to have the de.wp imported. Graham87 15:42, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
@Graham87: Translation of the template and the documentation page done, please import the history of the template and the documentation page. --Fippe (talk) 23:11, 12 August 2021 (UTC)
 Done Graham87 02:35, 13 August 2021 (UTC)


Import of he:מיכל הרצוג to Michal Herzog[edit]

  • Language: he:מיכל הרצוג
  • New name: Michal Herzog
  • Note: Has been translated. --Fippe (talk) 12:44, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Note by importing administrator:
  • Not done; there were many untranslated edits before you got there and importing all the edits from the Hebrew Wikipedia would cause overlapping edits. Your edit summary is good enough here. Graham87 15:52, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
It is not good enough, the terms of the Creative Commons BY-SA license must be respected all individual authors must be named. It does not matter if there are "overlapping edits". --Fippe (talk) 18:31, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
Yes, it does; it is no coincidence that there is basically only one major Wikimedia project that takes such a hard line on attribution ... that is: the German Wikipedia. In every edit box here it says: "You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license."; a wikilink is given by your edit summary and attribution can also be given by {{copied}} on the talk page. Importation of edits is not mandatory here, per Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia; I would oppose changing this in the strongest terms. Graham87 04:46, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
@Fippe: Redoing ping. Graham87 04:50, 15 August 2021 (UTC)


Import of de:Biennale des bewegten Bildes 2020 to User:TheAcademyIsDead/2020 Biennial of the Moving Image[edit]


Import of de:Julien Bam to User:Tobiasi0/Julien Bam[edit]

  • Language: de:Julien Bam
  • New name: User:Tobiasi0/Julien Bam
  • Note: Translation --Tobiasi0 (talk) 13:11, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
  • Note by importing administrator: Not done. @Tobiasi0: there are too many revisions for the page to be imported reliably. I have tried importing it using the normal interwiki import method, which produces duplicate revisions, along with an XML upload (both as a whole and splitting the file in two), and all of these methods timed out. Since importing is by no means required here,, I don't see the point of working on this any further; using {{Translated page}} on the talk page along with appropriate attribution in the article's edit summary will have to do. Graham87 16:33, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
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