Yes, it could be useful, some Wikipedia articles can be easily transwiki to
Wikisource/Wiktionary (while keeping the history?) .
Trung
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 02:42:10 -0400
From: mxn(a)zoomtown.com
To: wikivi-l(a)mail.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wikivi-l] [Fwd: Interwiki/transwiki imports mostly working now]
This is a little late, but I'm still catching up from being away from
e-mail for a few weeks...
I could see this being useful for transwiki'ing pages from Wikipedia to
Wiktionary or Wikisource. What do you think? We can get push-button
transwiki'ing enabled for the Vietnamese Wikipedia.
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Interwiki/transwiki imports mostly working now
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:51:31 -0700
From: Brion Vibber <brion-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w(a)public.gmane.org>
Reply-To: Wikimedia developers
<wikitech-l-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA(a)public.gmane.org>
Newsgroups: gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical
I've patched up some old problems with Special:Import and Special:Export:
* Import updates categories etc
* Imports are logged and reviewable in Special:Log/import
* Imported pages also get a null edit in the history indicating the
import and
its source
* Export is fixed up to allow fetching history for shorter pages, while
still
aborting to avoid bogging down the servers on longer pages (currently
set to a
cutoff of 100 edits)
* Transwiki import allows selecting the import-with-history
Wikis wishing transwiki import capability should let us know which wikis
they
want to be able to import directly from (for instance, from a wikipedia ->
wiktionary) and we can enable it.
Please pass this notice on to wikis where it will be of interest.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)
--
Minh Nguyen <mxn(a)zoomtown.com>
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