Wikipedia:Requests for page importation

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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:

1. Import "bar". When asked for the namespace, select "MediaWiki talk".
2. Move "foo" to "MediaWiki talk:bar". When asked whether you want to delete the page, answer yes.
3. 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.
4. 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.

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Import of de:Isabelle Müller to User:Ninh.numsim/Isabelle Müller

• Language: de:Isabelle Müller
• New name: User:Ninh.numsim/Isabelle Müller
• Note: --Ninh.numsim (talk) 10:30, 22 December 2025 (UTC)
• Note by importing user: Not done; you do not have much experience on any Wikimedia project outside of this topic area and the German version is itself imported from the Vietnamese version, which you created. All this leads me to believe that you have a conflict of interest about the subject of the article. Graham87 (talk) 14:09, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

  Thank you for the clarification. I understand your concern.

  The creation of Isabelle Müller was driven by my personal interest, as the book of Isabelle Müller helped me personally and I believed the information could also help others. The work was not done on behalf of anyone and not for personal benefit. I also note that the German version was reviewed, and the text was checked and edited by another editor.

  If the import is not appropriate under these circumstances, I would appreciate any guidance on how to proceed correctly in the future. Thank you!

  Ninh.numsim (talk) Ninh.numsim (talk) 13:43, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

  Thanks for the detailed notes. I'm still not willing to do the import though, because of the unusual situation and because importing is not the norm here. There's also this Facebook post by the article subject and the fact that the articles in both German and Vietnamese do not have many pages linking to them (i.e. in Wikipedia terms they are orphans). I would not be willing to do the import until the page is already in the article namespace and I would prefer that it be created by a more established user. Graham87 (talk) 15:40, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

  But if someone else is OK with importing the page, feel free. Graham87 (talk) 15:57, 27 December 2025 (UTC)

Import of de:Vanessa Hafenbrädl to Vanessa Hafenbrädl

• Language: de:Vanessa Hafenbrädl
• New name: Vanessa Hafenbrädl
• Note: --Aemijork (talk) 19:03, 2 January 2026 (UTC)
• Note by importing user: Not done; @Aemijork: we don't import non-english articles straight into the main namespace. Either translate the article first or allow me to import it in to your userspace. Graham87 (talk) 04:05, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

  @Graham87 I allow you to import it in to my userspace. Thank you Aemijork (talk) 12:44, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

  @Aemijork: Done, to User:Aemijork/Vanessa Hafenbrädl. Graham87 (talk) 13:09, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

  @Graham87 Thank you again :) Aemijork (talk) 13:16, 3 January 2026 (UTC)

Import of de:D’r Hans im Schnokeloch to User:Nachtbold/D'r Hans im Schnokeloch

• Language: de:D’r Hans im Schnokeloch
• New name: User:Nachtbold/D'r Hans im Schnokeloch
• Note: Import to my userspace for translation. Different apostrophe glyphs in respect to local typography rules. --Nachtbold (talk) 08:34, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
• Note by importing user:  Done Graham87 (talk) 14:40, 14 January 2026 (UTC)

Import of [[:de:Karl Bockamp:]] to [[Karl Bockamp]]

• Language: [http://de:Karl Bockamp.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=&action=history de:Karl Bockamp:]
• New name: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karl_Bockamp&action=history Karl Bockamp]
• Note: completed translation of article is at User:Túrelio/sandbox/Karl Bockamp --Túrelio (talk) 22:03, 14 January 2026 (UTC)
• Note by importing user:  Done; imported to the above-linked sandbox. Graham87 (talk) 00:36, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Thank you Graham87! --Túrelio (talk) 07:53, 15 January 2026 (UTC)

Import of de:Zentralbibliothek Solothurn to Zentralbibliothek Solothurn

• 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)