I remember bringing this up several years ago at Dutch Wikipedia, and from
what I recall, there were people that don't want the import function to be
active on their wiki for more fundamental reasons (they don't want old
versions to exist that were not created on their own wiki).
So I'm pretty sure that yeah, there would be people who are against a
sensible default.
It sounds like you want to do this as a workaround for poor access to
documentation (it's hard for people to figure out how the function works
and how to request stuff) - is that correct? If so, wouldn't it make more
sense to always link this kind of pages to a documentation page (ideally on
the same spot for all those special pages), and if the set of wiki's to
import from is empty, that we make that documentation even more explicitly
available?
Lodewijk
On Sat, Dec 21, 2019 at 2:39 AM Amir E. Aharoni <
amir.aharoni(a)mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
Hi,
One of these oddly-working features of MediaWiki is import sources: from
which wikis can you import content into your wiki.
The default is none. Nevertheless, a lot of wikis in all kinds of languages
do want to import from other wikis, which makes a lot of sense. You can see
the full list here:
https://noc.wikimedia.org/conf/highlight.php?file=InitialiseSettings.php
(This page is huge; search for wgImportSources.)
Since there is no default, every new wiki has to create its own entry
there. It's not a part of the usual wiki creation process (
https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Add_a_wiki ), so people only notice
this when they try to import something and nothing works, at which point
they often aren't sure who should they ask to fix this.
Does anyone object to having some sensible default for this, so that at
least something will work when people try to import?
Taking the most common sources listed in the file above looks like a good
starting point.
I proposed this almost a year ago (
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T214139 ), but the commetns there
suggest
that a wider consensus is needed, so here I am.
--
Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי
http://aharoni.wordpress.com
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I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore
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