Wikipedia:Requests for page importation
This is a place to request that pages be imported with history of pages from other Wikimedia Foundation wikis to here. This might be done if a page was copied and pasted from a WMF wiki to here, or, in the case of the Nostalgia Wikipedia, to make very old revisions accessible. Administrators can import pages from Meta, Commons, the Outreach Wiki, the Test2 Wikipedia site, and the German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Nostalgia Wikipedias to the English Wikipedia (see Phabricator task 22280 for relevant shell permission requests, and to request permissions for importing from more projects). It is also possible to indirectly perform a transwiki import from other projects by using step-wise process through a third project that has a project mapping already created, although using the export/import process may be simpler.
- Guidelines for admins
Check the history of the source page before importing. If there are overlapping edits between the source and destination page, import the edits into the MediaWiki talk namespace, since it is very rarely used. Follow this procedure, where "foo" is the title of the page in the English Wikipedia and "bar" is the title of the source page:
- Import "bar". When asked for the namespace, select "MediaWiki talk".
- Move "foo" to "MediaWiki talk:bar". When asked whether you want to delete the page, answer yes.
- From the "move succeeded" window, there is a link to the page history at "MediaWiki talk:bar". Activate it, perhaps in another tab or window, and there will be some text in the form "View or restore xxx deleted edits?". Activate the link associated with that text and undelete the imported edits that you need. The remaining edits will stay safely deleted in the MediaWiki talk namespace.
- Revert the move you made in step two. Uncheck the box that says "Leave a redirect behind", since redirects from the MediaWiki talk namespace are useless. If you want, you can use the "revert" link in the "move succeeded" window. The page move should go without a hitch.
The same procedure can be used when there are no overlapping edits, but in this case, it's best to move the page first, so the import appears in the page history.
In general, do not use the "assign edits to local users where the named user exists locally", leaving this off will indicate in the history the project the edits came from and you won't have to worry about non-created accounts here.
See User:Graham87/Import for guidelines on importing from the Nostalgia Wikipedia. There is a log of all page imports at Special:Log/import.
- Language: de:Zentralbibliothek Solothurn
- New name: Zentralbibliothek Solothurn
- Note: Article is reworked, but still based on a translation, so I'd like an import. --Gestumblindi (talk) 00:46, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Note by importing user:
Done * Pppery * it has begun... 03:38, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Language: fr:Hersilie Rouy
- New name: User:PaulasBunt/Hersilie Rouy
- Note: Translation for Women in Red project (+shortening and focusing more of her meaning as a musician)--PaulasBunt (talk) 11:58, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 15:00, 3 February 2026 (UTC)
- Language: pt:êxodo rural no Brasil
- New name: rural exodus in Brazil
- Note: key article about Brazil need translate.--Instituto miss brasil (talk) 16:03, 7 February 2026 (UTC)
- Note by importing user:
Not done - translate the article first, and then if it survives enwiki standards (which are often much higher than ptwiki's) you can request the history be imported. * Pppery * it has begun... 05:53, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
Import of de:Berger Warte to Berger Warte
[edit]- Language: de:Berger Warte
- New name: Berger Warte
- Note: Very good translation from the German article, but missing history :) --Fallen Sheep (talk) 20:57, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 23:38, 9 February 2026 (UTC)
- Language: de:Gesichtsfeminisierende Operation
- New name: Facial feminization surgery
- Note: Translated from the German Wikipedia. Even though I have completely revised the German version and this translation is based on it, it would probably still be useful to import the version history. – WikiHelper232 (talk) 13:42, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: Not done. We can only do that for a completely new article, not a rewrite of an existing one that has its own very substantial history. Graham87 (talk) 14:38, 10 February 2026 (UTC)
Import of de:Gesetz zum Schutz vor Konversionsbehandlungen to User:WikiHelper232/Gesetz zum Schutz vor Konversionsbehandlungen
[edit]- Language: de:Gesetz zum Schutz vor Konversionsbehandlungen
- New name: User:WikiHelper232/Gesetz zum Schutz vor Konversionsbehandlungen
- Note: Please import into my user area for translation. – WikiHelper232 (talk) 15:58, 13 February 2026 (UTC)
- Note by importing user:
- Language: de:Across the Border
- New name: Across the Border (band)
- Note: Translation --KatastrophenKommando (talk) 23:55, 14 February 2026 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: Done Graham87 (talk) 00:28, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
Import of de:Cloudtank to Cloudtank
[edit]- Language: de:Cloudtank
- New name: Cloudtank
- Note: version import for already translated article --Fallen Sheep (talk) 17:00, 15 February 2026 (UTC)
- Note by importing user: Done * Pppery * it has begun... 18:06, 15 February 2026 (UTC)