Hello. Once the FileImporter passes all testing and becomes a fully enabled feature, are there any plans to [mass] import all of the historic content that was previously transferred without history (i.e. FAQ: What if I want to import a file to Commons that has been imported before (without the history)?
I understand that manually doing this would be almost impossible, mostly due to conflicting edit histories and having to painstakingly select correct history versions over thousands of files. Thus may I suggest that a simple tool be created (for admins) where we could:
- Compare both histories of localwiki and commons side by side, including deleted versions
- Select versions to undelete/transfer/delete, with the ability to undelete and delete files on the same screen/dashboard.
- Also with a AWB-style diff-comparison for descriptions and categories
- Maybe also features to support structured data.
Of course, we first need to figure out how to generate a list of files that were manually transferred before.
Just like me, I'm sure many of you feel the discomfort of knowing that many years worth of valuable edit history was lost when large numbers of files were manually transferred before this feature... I feel some level of effort should be put in at least creating a queue for the task, rather than depending on random people to select desired files to save history from... Just my thoughts. Best wishes from Colombo.