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[MVP] As a new Wikibase user, I would like to copy entities, prime rally properties and items from an existing Wikibase to my new one, so that I can have a starting point in my knowledge graph from which to build. After doing some small prototyping exercise in our Wikibase.cloud team week we attempted to build a tool using pywikibot to enable copying pages from one Wiki to another. We attempted to use the `transferbot.py` script under-the-hood but realised that this does not work on Wikibase entities. We realised that a sensible architecture for this would be a container image that we can run which takes the following parameters: - a source wiki - a target wiki (+ credentials to edit there; maybe OAuth) - a list of entities to move (or perhaps optionally all entities in the case of a smaller source Wikibase) One way to do this would be using `wikibase-cli` which we investigated a little further and seemed plausible. Open questions are: - should all statements be copied? - what should happen about statements referencing entities that are not present (i.e. the depth of copy)? - should also languages be copied? - what about statements with a datatype missing on target wiki?

[MVP] As a new Wikibase user, I would like to copy entities, prime rally properties and items from an existing Wikibase to my new one, so that I can have a starting point in my knowledge graph from which to build. After doing some small prototyping exercise in our Wikibase.cloud team week we attempted to build a tool using pywikibot to enable copying pages from one Wiki to another. We attempted to use the `transferbot.py` script under-the-hood but realised that this does not work on Wikibase entities. We realised that a sensible architecture for this would be a container image that we can run which takes the following parameters: - a source wiki - a target wiki (+ credentials to edit there; maybe OAuth) - a list of entities to move (or perhaps optionally all entities in the case of a smaller source Wikibase) One way to do this would be using `wikibase-cli` which we investigated a little further and seemed plausible. **TODO** * We should figure out what should happen when a property with a data type missing on the target wiki gets copied over. Not for now: - copy all statements - for when we do copy over statements: what should happen about statements referencing entities that are not present (i.e. the depth of copy)? - don't bother with allowing for specific languages to be copied - (not a probem while we're not copying statements)what about statements with a datatype missing on target wiki?

[MVP] As a new Wikibase user, I would like to copy entities, prime rally properties and items from an existing Wikibase to my new one, so that I can have a starting point in my knowledge graph from which to build. After doing some small prototyping exercise in our Wikibase.cloud team week we attempted to build a tool using pywikibot to enable copying pages from one Wiki to another. We attempted to use the `transferbot.py` script under-the-hood but realised that this does not work on Wikibase entities. We realised that a sensible architecture for this would be a container image that we can run which takes the following parameters: - a source wiki - a target wiki (+ credentials to edit there; maybe OAuth) - a list of entities to move (or perhaps optionally all entities in the case of a smaller source Wikibase) One way to do this would be using `wikibase-cli` which we investigated a little further and seemed plausible. Open questions are:**TODO** - should all statements be copied?* We should figure out what should happen when a property with a data type missing on the target wiki gets copied over. Not for now: - what should happen about- copy all statements referencing entities that are not present (i.e. the depth of copy)?ents - should also languages be copiedfor when we do copy over statements: what should happen about statements referencing entities that are not present (i.e. the depth of copy)? - don't bother with allowing for specific languages to be copied - (not a probem while we're not copying statements)what about statements with a datatype missing on target wiki?