Improve UI text for Special:Import
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	Jul 14 2020, 11:48 PM

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Edit the documentation strings on the MediaWiki Special:Import page to help users understand best practices for importing pages.

Current page text:

Screen Shot 2020-07-14 at 3.39.41 PM.png (446×1 px, 69 KB)

Doc string IDs: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:Import?uselang=qqx

Screen Shot 2020-07-27 at 3.46.43 PM.png (938×1 px, 160 KB)

Notes:

Checking "Include all templates" (import-interwiki-templates) imports transcluded pages as well as templates
Checking "Import to default locations" (import-mapping-default) detects the namespace of the page and moves it to the corresponding namespace in the target wiki (as opposed to using the default namespace for the target wiki)

This will require a patch in Gerrit which changes the strings import-interwiki-templates and import-mapping-default in the file languages/i18n/en.json in the mediawiki/core code repository.

Note that only users with import permissions on Wikitech will be able to view the Special:Import page on wiki. To contribute to this task without import permissions, refer to the screenshot of the current text and the string IDs.
Also for new contributors out there, just propose the solution in the threads below (it will bypass gerrit knowledge).

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	mediawiki/core	master	+2 -2	core: Improve UI text for Special:Import

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Invalid	None	T40638 [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone]
Resolved	Hqrshguptq	T258003 Improve UI text for Special:Import
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apaskulin created this task.Jul 14 2020, 11:48 PM

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apaskulin updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 14 2020, 11:48 PM

Aklapper edited projects, added MediaWiki-Core-Snapshots, good first task; removed MediaWiki-General.Jul 15 2020, 10:05 AM

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Aklapper added a parent task: T40638: [DO NOT USE] Interface messages needing rewording or documentation and other issues with existing messages [superseded by #Voice_&_Tone].

apaskulin updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 27 2020, 10:47 PM

Hqrshguptq updated the task description. (Show Details)Jul 27 2020, 11:09 PM

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Hi there, is this task open?

bd808 removed a subscriber: bd808.Oct 9 2020, 12:14 AM

Hi @Hanan8822 and welcome. Please check the upper left corner, below the task title, for the status of any task. Also see the Assigned To field for the assignee of a task. Also see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_become_a_MediaWiki_hacker#Feedback,_questions_and_support - thanks!

Hi, Thanks again, @Hqrshguptq are you working on this?

Aklapper added a project: Voice & Tone.May 24 2021, 9:36 PM

Change 757127 had a related patch set uploaded (by EpicPupper; author: EpicPupper):

[mediawiki/core@master] core: Improve UI text for Special:Import

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/757127

gerritbot added a project: Patch-For-Review.Jan 26 2022, 12:33 AM

Checking "Include all templates" (import-interwiki-templates) imports subpages as well as templates

Is that true ??? I don't think it is. Only if those subpages are transcluded on the page itself (/doc on a template page for instance), maybe that confused someone, but i see no logic to iterate over subpages in the exporter, so i think this is false and should be reconsidered.

In T258003#7779501, @TheDJ wrote:

Checking "Include all templates" (import-interwiki-templates) imports subpages as well as templates

Is that true ??? I don't think it is. Only if those subpages are transcluded on the page itself (/doc on a template page for instance), maybe that confused someone, but i see no logic to iterate over subpages in the exporter, so i think this is false and should be reconsidered.

Looking at this now, it does seems incorrect. I must have meant transcluded pages instead of subpages. Thanks for catching this, @TheDJ !

apaskulin updated the task description. (Show Details)Mar 15 2022, 8:54 PM

Change 757127 merged by jenkins-bot:

[mediawiki/core@master] core: Improve UI text for Special:Import

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/757127

ReleaseTaggerBot added a project: MW-1.39-notes (1.39.0-wmf.5; 2022-03-28).Mar 23 2022, 8:00 PM

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