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Curious about categories

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Strainu (talkcontribs)

Hi, I'm curious to learn more on the decision not to transfer categories. With Wikidata, matching most categories that exist both on source and destination wiki should be fairly simple. Is there any specific reason why you're reluctant to use this method?

Michael Schönitzer (WMDE) (talkcontribs)

Hi, thank you on the input! We decided not to do this for the first version, since it wasn't foreseeable how hard this would actually be to implement and we'd rather have FileImporter out of beta without that feature now, than with that feature in several moths. That doesn't mean the feature can't be added in a future version. There are lot's of things that could be done to make moving files even easier, but we have to also consider both: the resource effort needed to implement and maintain in the future and the benefit for the users. We always try to focus on the things for which this ratio is best.

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