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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:Language recognition chart is likely to be deleted or moved into the project space, but is possibly a good start for a book here on WB as well. Irbisgreif (talk) 22:30, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

  Not done - Was moved to Wikipedia namespace and not deleted. -- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 20:33, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

• w:Projective transformation – textbook style article, gives good classic presentation of the subject. —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 02:43, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

  Done Find it at Transwiki:Projective transformation. -- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 20:33, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

  Thanks! Cleaned up and moved to Projective Geometry/Classic/Projective Transformations.

  —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 23:30, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

• w:aquaponics (I would like to have the wikipedia entry "aquaponics" imported as the basis for a book on that subject. Thank you.) Waldenponds (talk) 20:43, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

  Done Find it at Transwiki:Aquaponics, move into the main space when you've adapted it. Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 22:46, 11 December 2009 (UTC)

• Primary Mathematics/Powers, roots, and exponents should be replaced in whole by v:Primary mathematics/Powers, roots, and exponents because the former is entirely contained in the latter but the latter has more content, cleaner graphics and fewer errors. BTW the URL for the former is not being expanded properly; it is http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Primary_Mathematics/Powers,_roots,_and_exponentsNtropyman (talk) 04:35, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Interesting... this was Transwiki'd from Wikibooks to Wikiversity originally. Clearly it's been developed on V and left pretty much unchanged here. Debatable situation - if it's on V, wouldn't we be better off deleting it here or just softlinking to V rather than duplicating the content? Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 11:21, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

We had the page first and it's textbook material, so I see no reason why the edit histories couldn't be merged. I have, in fact, done so. Wikiversity simply needs to straighten out its scope. -- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 13:14, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

"We had the page first", made me laugh! Yes, good point - it looks like a textbook that belongs here. Unusual? Quite ^TalkQu 13:25, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

• w:File Transfer Protocol contains HowTo information about FTP which should not appear on Wikipedia and would be useful on the Communication Networks/FTP Protocol page. Ftiercel (talk) 11:14, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

  Done. Find it at Transwiki:File Transfer Protocol. You can move the content into the book from there. Only one revision would come across, so a link has been created to show the history. QU ^TalkQu 11:29, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

  Thanks ! Ftiercel (talk) 12:24, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

• w:Rice I'm using the info to improve the Wikibooks page on rice. However, I don't understand where to look for it once it's imported. Moby-Dick4000 (talk) 00:06, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

  I've tried importing this, but Opera fails after a while and Firefox eats up all my working memory before crashing... Anyone have better luck? MD: The page will be imported into Transwiki:Rice. From there you can move it to where it should end up or merge it with an existing module. --Swift (talk) 04:16, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

  Fails consistently for me too, probably due to the known problems with timeouts. Might have to be a single revision import. QU ^TalkQu 10:07, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Please cancel my request for importing the w:Rice article. I no longer need it. However, thank you for your efforts. Moby-Dick4000 (talk) 21:22, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

• w:Na'vi language: per discussion on en-WP. Detailed analysis of the language's syntax and grammar isn't currently suitable for Wikipedia but it's a good fit here. Thumperward (talk) 09:51, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

  Done but a full history import failed. Only a link to the original page is present in the page history at Na'vi, where the most recent revision of w:Na'vi language has been placed. -- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 13:39, 2 February 2010 (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.

• w:Guru_angad → Sikhism/Sri_Guru_Angad_Dev_Ji The book on Sikhism is in outline form and I believe this article would be ideal for the module on the second Guru of Sikhism. The article cites one reference and uses a narrative style for the biographical details. Thanks --Sluffs (talk) 10:29, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

  Done Find it at Sikhism/Sri Guru Angad Dev Ji. -- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 20:37, 6 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Wikibook on Hinduism

I've created modules using WP articles on Hinduism with a straight-forward copy and paste approach. I've only just found out that the importation of articles needs to be requested and is the task of administrators. Does this mean that I have to delete the pages I've already imported and then make a request or can the pages be amended. Many of the WP articles on Hinduism were written by devotees and therefore they tend not to be "encyclopaedic" in style but others are. Any advice? Thanks --Sluffs (talk) 12:52, 9 September 2009 (UTC)

You'll want to create a list of the Wikipedia articles used as sources and the pages you pasted them into. Then we can import them and merge the histories with what you currently have, no deletion needed. -- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 12:46, 10 September 2009 (UTC)

I've done extensive editing which includes deleting a technical etymology section, removal of repetition, grammar and lots of other tweaks to improve the flow of the prose. If you import the original WP articles won't that mean that all the changes are reverted. On the page about Hindu religious symbols; I've merged three articles with extensive removal of the each articles original material. This was done because the majority of the articles seem to have been written by Hindus and I wanted the concepts of Hinduism to be easily understood by people with no in-depth knowledge of India's religions. Basically I was editing with no knowledge of Hinduism myself and the end result was that the book started to take on the form of a primer with no advanced analysis or technical disputes about the material included. I'll create a list of the WP sources and WB pages (will place them here within a day of so) and keep a copy of the book with my edits as they stand today. Maybe after the import, I can paste my edited version in.

Thanks. --Sluffs (talk) 01:19, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Yes and no. When we do the import, your edits will no longer be the current version. However, it's pretty simple to bring up the previous version, edit, and save. Voila. The history is merged, and your edits are intact. However, we still need a list of articles. --Jomegat (talk) 01:30, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

• Vedas → Hinduism/The Vedas Done Attribution only. Full history import failed.
• Hindu temple → Hinduism/Hindu Temples Done
• Puranas → Hinduism/The Puranas Done
• Swastika, Bindi_(decoration), File:Om.svg → Hinduism/Religious Symbols of Hinduism Done Attribution only; full history import failed. Done with full history. Not done - can't import from Commons.
• Hindu → Hinduism/Etymology of the words Hindu and Hinduism Done

-- Adrignola ^{talk contribs} 00:39, 7 December 2009 (UTC)