User:Isarra/Importer

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Brainstorming...

  • Special page to choose what you want to import, and from where.
    • Should we check that the wiki is brand new and empty? What happens if we try importing into a wiki with history?
  • Does this depend on MediaWikiAuth?
  • If we do this in the job queue, we probably want to do it using the refreshlinks method: one 'big' job, which submits lots of small jobs
  • Can we import configuration options and stuff too? How do we edit LocalSettings.php?
    • We could create a ImportedSettings.php and it would be the sysadmins job to require_once it or merge it into the existing settings --Lego
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