Hi, I'm curious why the import function is not currently enabled from between these two projects. en.wikipedia has a strictly enforced policy of deleting articles with "how-to" materials, and/or removing sections of articles containing this sort of information. See, for example, this category: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_containing_how-to_sections I also remember seeing quite a few articles on the AfD pages which were decided as "Delete/transwiki to wikibooks", but don't seem to have shown up on the transwiki log at wikibooks (though some are simply copied directly to a main namespace location). The current system just seems broken, for several reasons: 1) Many articles that *are* transwikied end up being moved without edit histories, and in one case I had to get a WP admin to undelete a series of articles and provide the histories. 2) We (as in the wikibooks admin staff) have no idea if new modules (i.e., books or chapters) are transwikied or not. We can often make a good guess if a new module has a million red links in it, but even so this doesn't necessarily tell us where it came from. 3) The current copy/paste method is just unwieldy and time consuming. Is there any real reason the import function shouldn't be enabled (I've used it on wikiversity, and it's quite graceful and easy to use). 4) Many of the articles that are marked as having how-to sections contain only a slice of information about a topic that might be part of a larger text, and stubs just aren't very appropriate to the structure of wikibooks. For example, I recently transwikied http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion_battery from wikipedia, then placed it in an otherwise empty book called Battery Power ( http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Battery_Power ). To provide structure for filling out the book, it would be nice to be able to transwiki related articles (see table of contents of the book), which may or may not currently contain how-to information, in order to have something to build from. (The book could be useful for emergency preparedness, energy independence, electronics, etc.). This would be much easier to do using the import tool. I'm curious whether there's any strong arguments against doing this, or if not, perhaps it could be enabled? -Johnny __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l