Kurt Jansson wrote:
Special:Import: available only to sysops, this special page gives users the ability to import full histories into a wiki, using the XML output by Special:Export.
I don't have much knowledge about XML, but I guess it would be very easy to manipulate the edit history of an article before importing it. We trust our users and especially our admins, but we can only do so because everything they do is logged somewhere. Will the imports be logged, too? Will there be a notice like "article imported by [[User:blah]]" in the edit history?
Special:Import is not complete and has been disabled until such time as it is complete.
There will be a number of ways it can be used (not yet implemented): * Full administrator's import. Do whatever you want, since you've got the keys and can insert things manually via SQL, but it's more convenient. * 'sysop' import from authorized sources only (ie, direct import from one Wikimedia wiki's export to another), with logging and marking of all imported revisions with a comment notice, and perhaps limited to last-revision-only * etc.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)