Wikiversity talk:Import

Rules for importing Pages from Wikibooks
Only import pages for books that you plan to turn into lessons. It is totally against the concept of Wikiversity just to duplicate works done in other media. Robert Elliott 22:49, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

imports from wikipedia
There are a significant number of Philosophy articles that I'd like to import from wikipedia, mainly for the introductory sections, it would save a lot of duplicate work. Is there any direct from wikipedia import planned in the near future? RichMac 15:08, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Wikiversity custodians can do imports of Wikiversity-related pages from the meta-wiki and Wikibooks because that is where this project was developed. If you want to include text from a Wikipedia article here at Wikiversity, I suggest making a list of sources on the Wikiversity page and cite Wikipedia as your source for the text you use. --JWSchmidt 15:30, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Will take that route then, thanks for the advice. RichMac 01:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Import Template
For pages which have been imported from different Wikimedia sites please also use - it's a template which I've done, yesterday and is designed for articles which was imported - if you want to mention that an article was imported from lets say Wikibooks the coding will be  , I've had a number of problems with sorting out the Usage section - but thanks to Darklama the coding was properly fixed. DarkMage 10:20, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Decision-making
If you don't want to import some of the pages I've listed on the main page, simply indicate this below the pages. It won't hurt my feelings. If I'm suggesting pages that don't fit in Wikibooks' scope and you don't feel they belong here, I need to know so I can delete them at Wikibooks' end with the assumption that the marked pages don't belong at either project. "Work with me here, people." -- Adrignola 13:28, 12 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Sorry for the delay. This is a small project and we don't have as many active participants as we would like.  The page request has been imported.  --mikeu talk 18:19, 20 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks. -- Adrignola 18:35, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Pending imports
I'd appreciate a decision one way or another on these issues. Adrignola 13:33, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia article tagged for import since October 2010
The article "Introduction to mathematics of general relativity" on wikipedia has been tagged for import for some time. Was a request ever made here? I looked through the archives but could not find anything. Please let me know whether the tag on the WP article needs to be removed, or how to otherwise proceed. diff Thanks, Clifsportland 16:42, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Purpose of importing.
Should editors only import materials they intend to use, or should material be imported when possible to help others develop their lessons? I'm still relatively new to Wikiversity, and am unsure exactly how it is used. Thanks for your help. Clifsportland 17:16, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Which is easier for the importer: that the editor copy text over from another wiki, then ask for a history import; or for importer to copy and import the history? Sidelight12 Talk 12:38, 4 December 2012 (UTC)