Quoting Daniel Friesen(Dantman)
>Also remember that whether whatever settings for
transwiki import you
>make, someone can always just use Special:Import using an XML file to
>import.
Upload import is disabled on WMF wikis (except en.wikiquote for unknown
reasons :S )
>But going along with that @... Yes, that is a nice
addition which would
>make transwiki import a feature we could allow even non-admins to use.
It would
be a nice feature, but I think allowing non-admins to use it would
be a Bad Idea as lots of bad content would be imported inappropriately.
Importing over top of a pre-existing page should perhaps return a request
for confirmation like when moving over top of a page that exists.
>However it would be good to allow a user to
>select a range of revisions. So if they really need an entire page, they
>can import the start, continue the import, and continue on. Bot
>frameworks like Pywikipedia could then easily turn this into a bot
>import task and slowly import an entire page without causing server load.
I'd rather see the import limit fixed. I forget exactly why it breaks, but I
think it's either anything over a certain number of revisions, or a certain
amount of data doesn't get imported (or, if you're lucky, gets imported
partially). Some marginally better error messages were added for this, but
it should work better.
>There is an extra feature or two I would go for
two.
>Title renaming primarily. Sometimes a Wiki has a completely different
>naming structure, and as a result you need to move a page after
>importing it. However, what if the wiki already has a page with the same
>name as the article on another wiki, but that article isn't the one that
>we want to import. So it would be nice to be able to specify a title to
>import to.
As an admin on a wiki affected in this way, I have to say that that
feature
would not be useful. This is what the Transwiki: namespace is for. Import by
default to that namespace, and move to the new location; this leaves a
redirect behind, which is almost always a good thing, since links on other
projects will usually point to the Transwiki: page, and finding all links on
all projects is really not that much fun.
Mike.lifeguard@enwikibooks