Well, we do use import for the test wikis when we rebuild the wiki and for sample data. It involves having all the referenced properties and I think one of the rebuild scripts for the secondary data.
For importing items in the special page, the exports should have the content type. If the content type is an entity, then Wikibase should disallow the import. If it's a wiki that does not have wikibase installed, then it's an "unknown" content type and not sure MediaWiki should be allowing import of unknown content via Special:Import :) Cheers, Katie On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Lydia Pintscher < [email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Daniel Kinzler > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Import is an unsolved issue indeed. It works about half-way. I'm afraid > it's not > > easy to make it work right, but I think it's worth a look. > > Yeah. Thanks Katie for investigating. This is much less of a pressing > issue than I initially thought. > > > On big problem are IDs. What to do if the item's ID is taken? Also, all > the > > properties used by the item are going to have wrong IDs... > > Yes. In the item in question you could also see statements with > completely missing properties but existing values (presumably because > the property didn't exist) and statements where the datatype of > property and value didn't match (presumably those where the property > ID exists but is taken by a completely different property). > This is all very messy and I think we should declare this wontfix > until someone comes up with an actual real-world case where it's > needed. > > > Cheers > Lydia > > -- > Lydia Pintscher - http://about.me/lydia.pintscher > Community Communications for Technical Projects > > Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. > Obentrautstr. 72 > 10963 Berlin > www.wikimedia.de > > Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e. V. > > Eingetragen im Vereinsregister des Amtsgerichts Berlin-Charlottenburg > unter der Nummer 23855 Nz. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das > Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata-tech mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-tech > -- Katie Filbert Wikidata Developer Wikimedia Germany e.V. | NEW: Obentrautstr. 72 | 10963 Berlin Phone (030) 219 158 26-0 http://wikimedia.de Wikimedia Germany - Society for the Promotion of free knowledge eV Entered in the register of Amtsgericht Berlin-Charlottenburg under the number 23 855 as recognized as charitable by the Inland Revenue for corporations I Berlin, tax number 27/681/51985.
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