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...
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