Thank you for your interest in Wikibooks.
Felix Husemann, 06/05/19 12:56:
Since the book already uses a mediawiki I was hoping I
could make use of
the import/export feature, but I need a little advise on how to do it
It's possible to export an XML and then import it on the other side, but
you probably have to manually change some things such as the page titles
and the internal links. I see the syntax used in those pages is simple
enough so there shouldn't be big problems from that.
(since I assume I won't have the necessary rights
on wikibooks to do it
myself).
Indeed, the importer right is handed out rarely:
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importer>. Once you prepare the XML,
you should ask a local administrator to (ask the rights and) import it
for you.
Alternatively, if you have some familiarity with Python and the original
website with its revision history is expected to live on, you could just
copy the most recent version of each page by transforming the XML into
something pagefromfile.py can handle:
<https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikibot/pagefromfile.py>
Furthermore we'd like to publish the text under Creative Commons Zero,
some of the pictures use different licenses however (CC-BY-SA, CC-BY),
is that okay?
Images need to be freely licensed, they don't need to have the same
license as the text. These will need to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
with all the information usually required such as author, source and
license. Upload tools are available:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Upload_tools
Federico