Hi,
I looked at my contribution in the German Wikipedia[1] and noticed some unusual things: * I have many more contributions there than I thought I do. * I did some very strange edits, such as adding a category with an *English* name[2]
"Why would I do such a thing?", I thought.
Then I realized that some articles in the German Wikipedia are imported with all their old versions when they are being translated. So these edits were actually in the English Wikipedia.
Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia? What is the reason for it? Is there a policy page about it? Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
Thanks!
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/Amire80 [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jasmine_%28JavaScript%29&diff...
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Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia? What is the reason for it? Is there a policy page about it? Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
This is because the import function works this way. I think it would be better if imported revisions are marked as with origin from another Wikipedia. That it works this way is on all wikis which import pages.
Romaine
2014-10-04 15:09 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il:
Hi,
I looked at my contribution in the German Wikipedia[1] and noticed some unusual things:
- I have many more contributions there than I thought I do.
- I did some very strange edits, such as adding a category with an
*English* name[2]
"Why would I do such a thing?", I thought.
Then I realized that some articles in the German Wikipedia are imported with all their old versions when they are being translated. So these edits were actually in the English Wikipedia.
Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia? What is the reason for it? Is there a policy page about it? Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
Thanks!
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/Amire80 [2]
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jasmine_%28JavaScript%29&diff...
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
I understand that importing shows edits with the same username as if they were done in the target wiki.
My question is different: 1. Is it the usual practice for the German Wikipedia to do an import when translation is done? If yes, why? 2. Are there other wikis that do an import when translation is done?
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2014-10-04 16:38 GMT+03:00 Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com:
Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia? What is the reason for
it?
Is there a policy page about it? Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
This is because the import function works this way. I think it would be better if imported revisions are marked as with origin from another Wikipedia. That it works this way is on all wikis which import pages.
Romaine
2014-10-04 15:09 GMT+02:00 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il:
Hi,
I looked at my contribution in the German Wikipedia[1] and noticed some unusual things:
- I have many more contributions there than I thought I do.
- I did some very strange edits, such as adding a category with an
*English* name[2]
"Why would I do such a thing?", I thought.
Then I realized that some articles in the German Wikipedia are imported with all their old versions when they are being translated. So these
edits
were actually in the English Wikipedia.
Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia? What is the reason for
it?
Is there a policy page about it? Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
Thanks!
[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge/Amire80 [2]
https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jasmine_%28JavaScript%29&diff...
-- Amir Elisha Aharoni · אָמִיר אֱלִישָׁע אַהֲרוֹנִי http://aharoni.wordpress.com “We're living in pieces, I want to live in peace.” – T. Moore _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, mailto:wikimedia-l-request@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe
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Amir E. Aharoni, 04/10/2014 15:09:
Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia?
Yes.
What is the reason for it?
GFDL
Is there a policy page about it?
Probably in the neighbourhood of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Importw%C3%BCnsche
Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
No, only German projects. The list of projects which make special use of import is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importer
Nemo
this is cool, I can easily see that at least some of my articles are being translated to German!
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:33:52 +0200 From: nemowiki@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] translation by importing articles
Amir E. Aharoni, 04/10/2014 15:09:
Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia?
Yes.
What is the reason for it?
GFDL
Is there a policy page about it?
Probably in the neighbourhood of https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Importw%C3%BCnsche
Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
No, only German projects. The list of projects which make special use of import is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importer
Nemo
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On 10/4/14, 4:33 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
No, only German projects. The list of projects which make special use of import is at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importer
I just did some spot-checking, and there are edits of mine from en that have been imported to at least el and fr, in addition to de. So at least in the past it's been used more widely.
-Mark
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