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)