Well, we do use import for the test wikis when we rebuild the wiki and for sample data. It involves having all the referenced properties and I think one of the rebuild scripts for the secondary data.
For importing items in the special page, the exports should have the content type. If the content type is an entity, then Wikibase should disallow the import.
If it's a wiki that does not have wikibase installed, then it's an "unknown" content type and not sure MediaWiki should be allowing import of unknown content via Special:Import :)
Cheers, Katie
On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Lydia Pintscher < lydia.pintscher@wikimedia.de> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Daniel Kinzler daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de wrote:
Import is an unsolved issue indeed. It works about half-way. I'm afraid
it's not
easy to make it work right, but I think it's worth a look.
Yeah. Thanks Katie for investigating. This is much less of a pressing issue than I initially thought.
On big problem are IDs. What to do if the item's ID is taken? Also, all
the
properties used by the item are going to have wrong IDs...
Yes. In the item in question you could also see statements with completely missing properties but existing values (presumably because the property didn't exist) and statements where the datatype of property and value didn't match (presumably those where the property ID exists but is taken by a completely different property). This is all very messy and I think we should declare this wontfix until someone comes up with an actual real-world case where it's needed.
Cheers Lydia
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