Wikiversity:Import

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Shortcut: WV:I Mediawiki, the software that runs Wikiversity and its sister projects, has a feature that allows importing of pages from other wikis. When a page is imported that way, the edit history is preserved and the license observed. Currently, we can import pages from Wikipedia, Wikibooks, betawikiversity, Wikiquote and Wikisource.

Archived requests for import: Archive 1

Contents 1 New Requests for Import 2 More Pages 3 Notes for Custodians 4 Related resources

[edit] New Requests for Import

You can list here what pages from the above available projects you would like to have imported to Wikiversity.

Please make requests only for pages you want to work on today, and they will be imported as soon as possible. Importing can take a few minutes for each page and there are only a few custodians working to try to import pages. Please also keep in mind that textbooks are not supposed to be imported from Wikibooks, but instead should be linked to as "source material". Most of the work related to migrating imported pages does not require that you be a custodian. If you would like to help, please read Help with the migration of Wikiversity pages from Wikibooks or message at Wikiversity:Request custodian action.

Completed requests for import older than one week are located in the archive.

• b:template:mbox – Mike.lifeguard | ^talk 03:12, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks like Template:Mbox was already copied here. --mikeu 06:09, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

• b:Emergency Operation Centre GIS - Webaware ^talk 03:06, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

This article you requested to be imported have already been done by Darklama . Terra 19:28, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

• Wikibooks has decided b:Special:PrefixIndex/Democracy Project is not suitable for our project, but we thought it may fit within Wikiveristy's scope. Darklama was not sure it did. – Mike.lifeguard | ^@meta 23:06, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

imported, ----Erkan Yilmaz uses the Wikiversity:Chat (try) 10:12, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

• I'm not quite sure if they're actually appropriate for Wikiversity, but w:Genes to Cognition Project and w:Global Prescience have been tagged on the English Wikipedia for a couple weeks. Dancter 18:01, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

[edit] More Pages

Pages in the Transwiki pseudo-namespace that need to be re-named.

[edit] Notes for Custodians

When importing a page:

• Remember to change the namespace to import pages into, so a copy isn't placed into every namespace.
• Check to make sure the page exists and is the correct page (e.g isn't a redirect) beforehand.
• If a page is being moved due to being on the wrong wiki, mark the original with {{Transwiki complete}} to let contributors know where there work has moved to, and to notify administrators that its safe to delete. If the page is moved you can pipe the template to the correct wikiversity page like this {{Transwiki complete|Wikiversity}}.
• Add imported pages to either Category:Pages moved from Meta, Category:Pages moved from Wikibooks, Category:Pages moved from Wikipedia or Category:Imported works so we can keep track of what has been imported from where.
• Remember to also check if any subpages should be imported as well when importing from Wikibooks. Use Special:Prefixindex to find them.
• Upload any important media that is broken from the move, to commons if its freely licensed or public domain, otherwise upload it here.
• Correct the links: imported pages might have links to pages from where it got imported. These will appear after import as a red link. Please edit the imported page so these links point to the correct place:

  e.g. when you imported a page from Wikibooks add to the link the abbreviation b:

  [[this is a link to a page from Wikibooks]] -> [[b:this is a link to a page from Wikibooks|this is a link to a page from Wikibooks]]

• In some cases or in the future the license of the imported pages does not match to Wikiversity's licence (which is Wikiversity:GNU Free Documentation License)

[edit] Related resources

• Wikiversity:Import/Wikibooks deletion log - these Wikibooks pages were deleted in January 2008
• list of imported pages