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Add transwiki import on Urdu Wikipedia
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Please enable import feature for the sysops of Urdu Wikipedia. We have to copy many templates from other Wikipedia projects and this feature will enable us to preserve complete edit history. Add 'importupload' right to administrators. Administrators should be able to add/remove "Transwiki importer" (transwiki) group.

consensus: https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/ویکیپیڈیا:دیوان_عام/تجاویز#ٹرانس_ویکی

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BukhariSaeed renamed this task from Add transwiki import sources on Urdu Wikipedia to Add transwiki import on Urdu Wikipedia.Dec 25 2018, 6:41 PM
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From which specific wiki sites would you like to import?

From which specific wiki sites would you like to import?

As stated in above link of community consensus, these Wikis are arabic, english, french, hebrew and persian wikipedias.

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If i clearly understand this ticket, These are the changes? @BukhariSaeed and @MuhammadShuaib Please hereby confirm!

groupOverrides
'sysop' => [ 'importupload' => true ],

wgAddGroups
'sysop' => [ 'transwiki' => true ],

wgRemoveGroups
'sysop' => [ 'transwiki' => true ],

wgImportSources
'urwiki' => [ 'ar', 'en', 'fa', 'fr', 'he' ],

If i clearly understand this ticket, These are the changes? @BukhariSaeed and @MuhammadShuaib Please hereby confirm!

groupOverrides
'sysop' => [ 'importupload' => true ],

wgAddGroups
'sysop' => [ 'transwiki' => true ],

wgRemoveGroups
'sysop' => [ 'transwiki' => true ],

wgImportSources
'urwiki' => [ 'ar', 'en', 'fa', 'fr', 'he' ],

Yes

Sorry but importupload is too sensitive to be granted to any group at this moment. Transwiki import is fine but direct XML uploading is dangerous and should be left out of this request.

Change 481579 had a related patch set uploaded (by Tulsi Bhagat; owner: Tulsi Bhagat):
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Configure $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups and $wgImportSources for ur.wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/481579

Scheduled to be deployed during European Mid-day SWAT window on Monday, January 14.

Change 481579 merged by jenkins-bot:
[operations/mediawiki-config@master] Configure $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups and $wgImportSources for ur.wiki

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/481579

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-operations) [2019-01-14T12:27:54Z] <zfilipin@deploy1001> Synchronized wmf-config/InitialiseSettings.php: SWAT: [[gerrit:481579|Configure $wgAddGroups, $wgRemoveGroups and $wgImportSources for ur.wiki (T212612)]] (duration: 00m 46s)

Please feel free to reopen if there is any issue regarding the change. Kind regards,