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Currently, a wiki sysadmin would need to edit the database manually to do that, which isn't really cool. Import and export is already possible, and population from interwiki sites is possible with a a maintenance script from MediaWiki-extensions-WikibaseClient

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	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Add maintenance script to add sites to sites table	mediawiki/core	master	+95 -0

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Florian created this task.Apr 18 2016, 5:24 PM

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Change 284005 had a related patch set uploaded (by Florianschmidtwelzow):
Add special page to add sites to sites table

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/284005

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Apr 18 2016, 6:04 PM

Dereckson edited projects, added MediaWiki-extensions-WikimediaMaintenance; removed MediaWiki-extensions-Maintenance (by Skizzerz).Jul 8 2016, 6:32 PM

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Change 284005 merged by jenkins-bot:
Add maintenance script to add sites to sites table

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/284005

ReleaseTaggerBot added projects: MW-1.29-release-notes, MW-1.29-release (WMF-deploy-2017-02-28_(1.29.0-wmf.14)).Feb 26 2017, 5:00 PM

Thanks @thiemowmde for merging! I updated the documentation on: https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Manual:Sites_table&diff=2409116&oldid=2334627

However, we probably should think about adding the functionality to update a site using this maintenance script, too :)

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