Incubator:Coordination for importing closed projects
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Since July 2007, closed projects are imported to Incubator. All import actions are logged at Special:Log/import. See I:Exporting about new wiki creations.
Tracking tag for wiki closures: wiki-setup
How-To?
[edit source]- Go to m:Proposals for closing projects#Closed proposals.
- Find one that is not yet done.
- If there is enough usable content,* import it:
- Get a list of pages to be exported (e.g. in a simple text editor):
- Namespaces: (main), talk, category and category_talk
- You can use Special:Allpages on the local wiki.
- Note: It's not needed to register, or the database must not necessarily be open.
- On the list:
- Remove pages that are not needed to be exported, like "Template:Babel", "Template:Delete", etc. because they exist on Incubator or are useless for it.
- Be sure all page names are on separate lines.
- Copy the list to the field at Special:Export (on the wiki), as explained on that page.
- Important: Uncheck "Include only the current revision, not the full history" and check "Include templates".
- Click on "export".
- Save that file on your computer (be sure that it supports utf-8).
- Edit the file in a text editor and add prefixes to the page titles, and be sure there is no unprefixed page called "Main Page".
- You may also consider adding prefixes to the links and templates on the pages, but watch out for links to userspace and interwiki links so you won't replace a "[[en:Main Page]]" by "[[Wx/xx/en:Main Page]]").
- Adjust the inclusions of files by replacing "[[<File/Image in the language>:" with "[[File:" everywhere. Move any freely licensed files uploaded on the closed wiki to Commons, and leave the rest alone.
- Adjust the categories pages are put in by replacing "[[<Category in the language>:" with [[Category:Wx/xx/" everywhere
- Go on Incubator to Special:Import. Search your computer for the XML file, then upload it.
- Make a
{{test wiki}}
page "Wx/xx". Set parameter|status = imported
. - Add this to Template:Tests
- Get a list of pages to be exported (e.g. in a simple text editor):
- Change the
|incubator=
parameter on m:Proposals for closing projects - You have finished!
- * If there is no usable content, create a page "Wx/xx" here with a notice that the test was closed, but not imported. See Wb/ie for an example.
Who?
[edit source]Importing pages from a file upload is limited to users in the import group, see below or Special:Listusers/import for a list of them on Incubator.
- Danny B. import log (also sysop and bureaucrat)
- Ebe123 import log (also sysop and bureaucrat)
- MF-Warburg import log (also sysop and bureaucrat)
- Ooswesthoesbes import log (also sysop and bureaucrat)
- Sotiale import log (also sysop and bureaucrat)
You can request import access at Incubator:Administrators.