Wikibooks:Requests for Import

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To preserve edit histories and observe the attribution requirements of the licenses, content from our sister projects should be imported rather than simply pasted into a new module. Wikibooks administrators can import pages from: English Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikisource, Wikinews, and Simple English Wikibooks.

Requests to import can be made to help in making or expanding a book, and to move works from other projects that fit Wikibooks' scope. Place requests below and an administrator will try to perform the import promptly.

Note that administrators are not responsible for moving and cleaning up pages. Please watch this page for when the import is complete and take care of the imported module.

Administrators: To import a page, go to Special:import. After import, add {{dewikify}} to the page and make a note where the imported page has ended up. Pages will by default import into Transwiki:Pages name.

Pages with extremely long edit histories may fail to import. In this case, a single revision which gives attribution to the source wiki will be imported. While this isn't ideal, it should satisfy the GFDL. Place {{import failed|Page name}} on the talk page to note this. Note that repeated attempts to import may eventually bring over the history, so if it fails on the first attempt, you might want to try it a few more times.

Please see bugzilla:15000 (and vote for it to get it resolved sooner).

[edit] Simple Imports

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

  • w:Simone de Beauvoir, w:Susan Brownell Anthony - The Feminism book has links to nonexistent pages for these subjects among others. I'm trying to get the book really started, and this would give me something to work with. You'll see a number of other subjects on the table of contents that have wikipedia articles, but I'm not sure how much I want to follow the existing outline or in some cases, whether using the Wikipedia article is ideal or not, so I'd like to start with these. BooksihAcolyte (talk) 07:02, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
    I've tried importing these a couple of times now (first shortly after this request) but not been able. I seem to always get an error message. Please hang in there, we should sort this out soon enough. --Swift (talk) 17:06, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
If someone wants to start a book on mug collecting, I would be happy to import this article. I don't really want to do the import though if the article is just going to sit abandoned in transwiki space just in case someone wants to start a book. --Jomegat (talk) 12:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
Well, I've move it into main space, give it an into, & inform the person who created it how to proceed. --ThaddeusB (talk) 03:21, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Done and can be found at Transwiki:Starbucks City Mug --Jomegat (talk) 03:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
  • w:Common Test Cases - appears to be a fairly good use of test cases that can be used as part of a software engineering book --ThaddeusB (talk) 20:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
Done and can be found at Transwiki:Common Test Cases --Jomegat (talk) 03:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
Done and can be found at Cookbook:Radish Stew. --Jomegat (talk) 03:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
  • w:Template:CatDiffuse - would be nice to have for putting on the top level subject categories and any below those that have been fully subcategorized. -- Adrignola talk contribs 01:52, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
    Would be better to create one. Wikipedia templates tend to be very deeply nested and dependent on a bunch of other templates. I'll make one instead. --darklama 02:00, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
    See {{subcategories}}. --darklama 02:07, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
    Thanks a bunch! -- Adrignola talk contribs 02:30, 4 June 2009 (UTC)

*w:What to do before an earthquake. - I would like to add this to the existing book on Earthquakes --ThaddeusB (talk) 04:33, 11 June 2009 (UTC) Nevermind, turned out to be a copyvio. --ThaddeusB (talk) 02:20, 14 June 2009 (UTC)

Done - imported page can be found at Cookbook:Cabbie claw. --Jomegat (talk) 21:15, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

[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, but none of the history came across. History will show that the article was imported from WP though. --Jomegat (talk) 12:48, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Import infobox template from wikipedia

hello oh masters of the universe. i'd be eternally greatful if you could make the infobox feature available in wikibooks. i am including bios of significant people in my textbook and the infobox structure would do me fine for that. otherwise i'd have to author my own templates which are likely to soak up time and are not going to be as good as the infobox is already. thanks and all the best, Robert Huber (talk) 13:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

There are lots of infobox templates on WP. The one you mentioned in the reading room is {{Infobox_Scientist}}, so I'll import that one for you. Unusual? Quite TalkQu 16:26, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
FYI: Wikibooks has its own {{infobox}} "feature" available that is used somewhat differently from infoboxes on Wikipedia. --darklama 16:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
Ah yes, spotted that after I started importing stuff... however, using the existing WB template as a transclusion to the Infobox Scientist one from WP, plus its transcluded templates, seems to work okay.... If anyone thinks this should be done differently, feel free! Unusual? Quite TalkQu 17:48, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
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