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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.

Import of de:Maximilian Haedicke to

  • Language: de:Maximilian Haedicke
  • New name: Maximilian Haedicke
  • Note: PSip2020 — Preceding unsigned comment added by ( • contribs) 21:08, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Note by importing administrator: Not done We won't import untranslated articles into mainspace. — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:00, 22 December 2020 (UTC)


Import of de:Andreas Arntzen (Verlagsmanager) to

  • Language: de:Andreas Arntzen (Verlagsmanager)
  • New name: Andreas Arntzen (Manager)
  • Note:Sonja.Schmucker: Translation of German Wikipedia article about Andreas Arntzen who played in the German National Hockey-Team and is a successful manager of publishing houses today. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ( • contribs) 13:23, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
  • Note by importing administrator: Not done; we can't import non-English articles directly into the article namespace. Graham87 14:45, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
    @Graham87: why don't you import it to the user's namespace and inform her about? Doc Taxon (talk) 01:41, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
    @Doc Taxon: FYI, I've updated the directions - hopefully future editors making requests will read them. Sometimes people request this with no intent to ever actually work on the translation. — xaosflux Talk 02:10, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
    @: would you like this imported as a sandbox so you can work on it? — xaosflux Talk 02:10, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
    @Doc Taxon and Xaosflux: Exactly this. The new instructions sound good. Graham87 03:29, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
    Sounds good hoping it will be read. Thank you, Doc Taxon (talk) 21:35, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
    @Xaosflux:Yes, please import it as a sandbox that I can translate the article. I am thankful for your advice! — Preceding unsigned comment added by ( • contribs) 08:26, 4 January 2021 (UTC)
  • @:  Done, at User:Sonja.Schmucker/Andreas Arntzen (Manager). Graham87 14:54, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

Import of to user:René_Anghel/Rikki Ililonga


Import of de:TKX-50 to User:Sepochert/TKX-50


Import of de:Željko Balen to

Wenn möglich die Seite zusätzlich noch auf English übersetzen.--Bado25 (talk) 15:50, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

@Bado25: Not done I'm assuming you want this to come from dewiki to here. You will need to make the translation first before we can import the history. — xaosflux Talk 17:27, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
It´s on my Page, but I need help (Infobox?)--Bado25 (talk) 22:34, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
 Done @Bado25: I've imported the history for you to User:Bado25/Željko Balen. For general help on how to edit an article you may try to ask at Wikipedia:Teahouse. — xaosflux Talk 01:05, 1 January 2021 (UTC)

Import of de:Aachener Dombausage to user:AnnabellaGhostwriter/Aachener Dombausage


Import of de:Karlheinz Kessler to User:Niniveh73/Karlheinz_Kessler

Import of de:Samuray Kuba to

could you please help me with this? thanks

  • Note by importing administrator:

Import of to

  • Language: English:Samuray Kuba
  • New name: Samuray Kuba
  • Note: -- (talk) 23:33, 12 January 2021 (UTC) Could you please follow-up on my info please?
  • Note by importing administrator: Not done; @: we can't put untranslated articles straight into the main namespace; would you like me to import de:Samuray Kuba into your userspace? Graham87 02:07, 13 January 2021 (UTC)

Import of de:Vectorcam to

Import of de:Bystronic to User:amanderbach/Bystronic


Import of de:Josef Fraenkel to


Import of ja:ジキン to

  • Language: ja:ジキン
  • New name: User:Fredlesaltique/Jikin
  • Note: Trying to address a translation request template on the page for Jikin. Never used this feature before, so please let me know if I am doing this correctly or not. --Fredlesaltique (talk) 01:30, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
  • Note by importing administrator: Not done @Fredlesaltique: This isn't really the right place for this request because of the existing article at Jikin goldfish and the overlapping history any import would create ... it'd be more trouble than it's worth. Graham87 03:56, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
  • @Graham87: I'd found this page on Category:Wikipedia articles needing cleanup after translation from Japanese and wanted to get my feet wet with an obscure article, since the guides on translating/importing articles are pretty obtuse. What sort of article could I try this out with? Fredlesaltique (talk) 04:16, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
    • @Fredlesaltique: I can't think of one ... honestly even for new articles importing is very much optional and is only strictly necessary in unusual circumstances (and from the German Wikipedia, due to their community's interpretation of copyright policy). Graham87 08:09, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
      • @Graham87: Hmmm I'll try and figure something out then. It'd be nice if I could mess around directly with the Japanese article code/data, then copy-paste the final translation into the English wikipedia page once it's finally finished. Not sure how to do that though. I appreciate all the help. Fredlesaltique (talk) 00:34, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_importation