Relevant bugs:

<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51412>

<https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47070>




2013/9/15 Katie Filbert <[email protected]>

> 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
>>
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