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Rather then copying and pasting material from other Wikimedia projects, Wikibooks administrators can import pages from English Wikipedia, English Wikiversity, English Wikisource, Simple English Wikibooks and English Wikinews. When pages are imported this way, the edit history is preserved and the attribution requirements of the licenses used are observed.

Requests to import pages can be made to help in making or expanding a book, and to move "textbook style" works from other projects where such materials may be out of scope. Anyone can make a request and administrators will try to perform the import promptly.

Administrators are not responsible for moving and cleaning up pages.
All pages will appear as [[Transwiki:Pages name]] after import, unless otherwise noted. Any Wikibookian may feel free to move pages out of the transwiki namespace. Also, we may not be able to import pages with extremely long edit histories, in which case an administrator will note that the import failed. In this case, a single revision will be imported, which gives attribution to Wikipedia; this should satisfy the GFDL, though is not ideal. Admins should use {{import failed|Article name}} on the talk page to note this.


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[edit] Current Requests

Please remember to check that the page you're requesting is not a redirect and exists on the wiki it is being transwikied from. Please use the form [[Project:Requested page name]] ~~~~.

[edit] Simple Imports

Use this section for simple imports that you are willing to wait for before working on the module.

  • w:Corned_beef_pie (Move the recipe in the article to cookbook.) Glane23 (talk) 15:03, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
    Done — Mike.lifeguard | talk 19:58, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
  • w:Sailing (The article has outgrown usual encyclopedia size. There's a lot of good stuff to serve as the basis for a book.) 216.31.225.194 (talk) 23:04, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
    I had a look and couldn't see much in the way of sailing instruction. There were several references to useful terms, but no really actionable information which will help you learn to sail (better). --Swift (talk) 01:12, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
    There's a lot of articles where the discussion says "this article is too long" relating to sailing, of which this is one. My thought was to gather several of these together and dewikipedia-ize them into a book. I had in mind a larger scope than this one article covers, combining several related articles into a coherent document, but, not being entirely sure I know what I'm doing, thought it would be best to start with a single article. Wcoole (talk) 00:53, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
    Done. I couldn't get the article history though, as there have been too many revisions. (Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn't). You can find the imported article here. --Jomegat (talk) 01:22, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
Done You can find it at Transwiki:Waterzooi. --Jomegat (talk) 17:41, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
I'm sorry but I fail to see how this is appropriate for wikibooks either. Wikibooks is also not a dictionary. This page does not have the makings of a textbook.
I don't think this should be imported to Wikibooks. Some of the reasons for suggesting its deletion on Wikipedia apply here as well. This seems to be original research, which means there probably isn't going to be a realistic way to independently verify what is being written isn't just being made up. I think this would be more appropriate for Wikiversity which does allow original research. --darklama 12:49, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
It seems that a wikibook on this topic would be some sort of a manual. Question Writer 3 Manual may be a precedence. A number of wikibooks require some leniency on the original research clause.
The noteriety issue may be a tougher sticking point. I'd be willing to overlook that if there was the chance that it might develop into a good wikibook. There isn't much on that Wikipedia page; how about dropping the import request, being bold and just starting the book? --Swift (talk) 16:00, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Question Writer 3 is a software program that has plenty of existing material available that I can find by a Google search, so I don't see the precedence there. My concern is that there appears to be little if any material that documents the mKR programming language that could be used to determine if a book written on Wikibooks about it is factually accurate, complete garbage or being invented as the person goes. It is in that sense that it is original research because it cannot be verified either way. I don't think it meets Wikibooks' inclusion requirements, but it does Wikiversity's. Other books that have had similar problems have been deleted as well. --darklama 16:56, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
Good points. I chose to point to Question Writer 3 since I stumbled across User:Hskeet's comment on Whiteknight's talk page where he explanes that he had "been commissioned to write the manual by the owners/developers of the software". It seems that the principle author of that Wikipedia article is also the software author. In a sense that would be a pretty solid proof of validity, but naturally, that would not guarantee future edits.
I'd like to see wikibooks embrace manuals like these, but not without ensuring verifiability. --Swift (talk) 17:28, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] May 2008

[edit] Import and Merge

Use this section for imports that need to be "history-merged" with a module that has already been started using copy-paste.

Done  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 03:02, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Can we try an import and Merge of histories for Wikijunior:Famous_Inventors/Inventors_in_Communication/Nikola_Tesla_(Radio) from w:Nikola_Tesla.

Import failed, so I just put a template on the talk page and a note in the history.  – Mike.lifeguard | talk 19:46, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
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