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@zoomtown.com To: wikivi-l@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@public.gmane.org Reply-To: Wikimedia developers wikitech-l-AeOJrEpdGNeGglJvpFV4uA@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@zoomtown.com AIM: trycom2000; Jabber: mxn@myjabber.net; Blog: http://mxn.f2o.org/
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