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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.

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Import and Merge edit

Use this section for imports that need to be "history-merged" with a module that has already been started using copy-paste.

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*[[Project:Page name]] → [[Target Page]] ~~~~
  • w:en:template:interlineartemplate:interlinear and associated subpages and module, as well as templates it is dependent on; @Eievie: started a copy-pasting of the pages and I continued before we were each separately alerted to the existence of this project page. There are no local changes that need to be preserved aside from customising to the ENWB environment, so perhaps this belongs in the subsequent section, but I put it here in case the existence of a previous copy-pasted page complicates the import technically. Thanks in advance. Arlo Barnes (discusscontribs) 23:34, 20 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
@Arlo Barnes:, I tried importing w:Module:Interlinear, but it wasn't very successful. I imported to the transwiki space to avoid over-writing of local templates/modules. The log is:
   Transwiki:Interlinear No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Code 45 revisions
   Transwiki:Lua 58 revisions
   Transwiki:Module other 12 revisions
   Transwiki:Module rating 47 revisions
   Transwiki:Ombox 19 revisions
   Transwiki:Arguments No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Documentation No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Documentation/config No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Documentation/styles.css 23 revisions
   Transwiki:Effective protection expiry No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Effective protection level No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:File link No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Interlinear/data No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Interlinear/doc 9 revisions
   Transwiki:Lang/data No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Language/data/iana languages No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Language/data/iana regions No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Language/data/iana scripts No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Language/data/iana suppressed scripts No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Language/data/iana variants No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:List No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Lua banner No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Message box No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Message box/configuration No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:No globals No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Protection banner No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Protection banner/config No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:TableTools No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).
   Transwiki:Yesno No revisions imported (all were either already present, or skipped due to errors).

Presumably there was a lot of errors in the process. For example Module:Interlinear didn't import, and does not exist here at Transwiki:Interlinear, so there must have been errors in the import. I think many of these are module documentation templates/modules, so are not needed. How do you want to proceed? --Jules (Mrjulesd) 22:58, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

See Special:Log/import for pages that were successful. --Jules (Mrjulesd) 23:10, 22 February 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! While it would be nice to have the doc page in ship shape, I'll settle for working glossing via the template proper, which seems to have been accomplished. Arlo Barnes (discusscontribs) 01:14, 23 February 2022 (UTC)Reply

Simple Imports edit

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Pikmin franchise strategy guide edit

Requesting w:User:2005-Fan/Wildlife of Pikmin and w:User:2005-Fan/Snitchbug to be imported to Pikmin franchise strategy guide. 2005-Fan (discusscontribs) 13:41, 12 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

@2005-Fan:   Done Leaderboard (discusscontribs) 15:25, 12 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Thank you! (and long time, no see) 2005-Fan (discusscontribs) 16:14, 12 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
Okay so I got a few more:
w:User:2005-Fan/Piklopedia and w:User:2005-Fan/Treasure (Pikmin) for Pikmin franchise strategy guide
w:User:2005-Fan/The Spirit Guide for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
w:User:2005-Fan/Jalhalla for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker/Bosses/Jalhalla (fills in a red link there too)
w:User:2005-Fan/Poe Sisters for Zelda franchise strategy guide 2005-Fan (discusscontribs) 21:55, 12 March 2024 (UTC)Reply
@2005-Fan:   Done Leaderboard (discusscontribs) 06:46, 13 March 2024 (UTC)Reply