Wikipedia:Requests for page importation
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:
- Import "bar". When asked for the namespace, select "MediaWiki talk".
- Move "foo" to "MediaWiki talk:bar". When asked whether you want to delete the page, answer yes.
- 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.
- 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.
- Language: de:de:Elfriede Wojaczek-Steffke
- New name: GlobaliseWiki/Elfriede Wojaczek-Steffke
- Note: --2A02:8109:9F20:DC00:2080:B08E:DEFC:ADD4 (talk) 00:33, 3 September 2025 (UTC)Translation done. I have translated the original German language article into English and wish to connect the two. Elfriede Wojaczek-Steffke was a family member and I wanted to publish an English version for a wider readership, so I created one. Thank you for your help.
- Note by importing user:
Not done There is no translated article present, and you do not have a user-space to import into. In addition, the title you are requesting the German article to be imported to appears to be a subpage of a non-existent article title. You also openly state that you have a conflict of interest with the article subject. EggRoll97 (talk) 01:26, 3 September 2025 (UTC)
Import of de:Stance bike to Stance bike
[edit]- Language: de:Stance bike
- New name: Stance bike
- Note: I translated my own German article into English, not sure whether a version import is necessary? --Hurluberlue (talk) 06:12, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: @Hurluberlue: Not really, as (a) your edit summary contains a link to the German article and (b) it's your own work. I'm not going to do the import myself but won't be bent out of shape if someone here does. Graham87 (talk) 14:32, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
- Ok, thanks for the info! I wasn't sure about the usual procedure in here. Hurluberlue (talk) 14:59, 26 September 2025 (UTC)
- Language: de:Alte Evangelische Kirche Wilferdingen
- New name: Old Protestant Church of Wilferdingen
- Note: Translation--KatastrophenKommando (talk) 08:17, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
- Note by importing user:
Done Graham87 (talk) 15:20, 13 October 2025 (UTC)
Import of de:Able (Rhesusaffe) to Miss Able
[edit]- Language: de:Able (Rhesusaffe)
- New name: Miss Able
- Note: Translation --KatastrophenKommando (talk) 23:34, 10 November 2025 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 03:34, 11 November 2025 (UTC)
- Language: sv:Gunnar Brusewitz
- New name: Draft:Gunnar Brusewitz
- Note: --Heather2025 (talk) 15:13, 8 December 2025 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: Not done; you have very little experience on any wiki, leading me to believe that you probably have a conflict of interest in this matter. Graham87 (talk) 01:49, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- Language: de:E1 (Tastaturbelegung)
- New name: User:Karl432/German extended keyboard layout
- Note: --Karl432 (talk) 14:18, 9 December 2025 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 15:00, 9 December 2025 (UTC)