Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia? What is the reason for it?
Is there a policy page about it?
Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
This is because the import function works this way. I think it would be
better if imported revisions are marked as with origin from another
I understand that importing shows edits with the same username as if they
were done in the target wiki.
My question is different:
1. Is it the usual practice for the German Wikipedia to do an import when
translation is done? If yes, why?
2. Are there other wikis that do an import when translation
Amir E. Aharoni, 04/10/2014 15:09:
Is it a usual practice in the German Wikipedia?
Yes.
What is the reason for it?
GFDL
Is there a policy page about it?
Probably in the neighbourhood of
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Importw%C3%BCnsche
Are there are Wikipedia projects
this is cool, I can easily see that at least some of my articles are being
translated to German!
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2014 16:33:52 +0200
From: nemow...@gmail.com
To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] translation by importing articles
Amir E. Aharoni, 04/10/2014 15:09
On 10/4/14, 4:33 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
Are there are Wikipedia projects that do this?
No, only German projects.
The list of projects which make special use of import is at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Importer
I just did some spot-checking, and there are edits of mine from en
