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Wikipedia:Guernsey French

Request that this be imported so the general information can be merged into the relevant book sections; and in particular, the Guernsey French phrases listed can form the basis of the phrasebook. I am intending to work with Guernsey French speakers and authors to write original content, but until then this is the only content under a license which can be used. Hoping to import to SarniaCherie (discuss • contribs) 14:05, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Done at Transwiki:Guernésiais QU TalkQu 17:17, 13 June 2011 (UTC)

Event Driven Programming

There is a very decent book on this subject available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. I suggest to import to Event driven programming section of computer programming. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yndesai (talk • contribs) 15:01, 8 January 2011 (UTC)

This isn't something we can bring in with the import tool. You would be able to bring it in and provide a link for the attribution requirement of the license. It needs to be available under the 3.0 License, however, as that is our site license. – Adrignola talk 19:57, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
Thanks for the guidance, I will check with the author if he can publish under the 3.0 license. Is there any easy way to find difference between 2.5 & 3.0 so that I can help author to refer the comparison. Yndesai (discuss • contribs) 05:35, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Intercontinental motorcycle touring

A terrible Wikipedia article with the makings of a good book on motorcycle touring. Import the version previous to this diff, which is when I started hacking it by cutting out loads of non-encyclopaedic content. --Biker Biker (talk) 18:10, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Done. At Intercontinental Motorcycle Touring. – Adrignola talk 20:29, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Wet weather driving

Perhaps import into the driving book. It's up for deletion on Wikipedia. 94.194.66.92 (discuss) 00:04, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Done . At Driving/Safety/Wet weather driving. --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 00:27, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Introduction to Software Engineering

(As a starting point for the above book I wanted to use a few Wikipedia articles, could you please import them? Thanks!) Rplano (discuss • contribs) 10:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

 Doing... from the bottom, to save Adrignola time. [[::User:Kayau|Kayau]] ([[::User talk:Kayau|discuss]] · [[::Special:Emailuser/Kayau|email]] · [[::Special:Contributions/Kayau|contribs]] · logs · count) 15:45, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Completed. – Adrignola discuss 18:06, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

California Proposition 99

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_99_(1988) -->http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/California_Public_Policy_and_Citizen_Participation/Chapter_Six —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geofferybard (discuss • contribs) 00:27, 4 March 2011 (UTC)

Done. – Adrignola discuss 02:25, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
Late thank you. Will try to rewrite to style and fact check and integrate content to book.Geofferybard (discuss • contribs) 00:11, 21 May 2011 (UTC)

Conjunctivitis

Not a request, a reminder for me to try and import this again from WP. It is for Ophthalmology/Diseases of Conjunctiva to replace the copy / paste a new editor did. Stuck getting Mediawiki errors at the moment - will try later. QU TalkQu 12:45, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Zeppelin

Actually not a "simple" import, it's only the starting point. Right now the w:Zeppelin article is dominated by a large material that in my opinion is (a) off-topic, (b) too detailed, and at the same time (c) original research. The material should be really titled World War I/German bombing of the British Isles to describe its actual topic. Presently the material is found in the sections w:Zeppelin#1915 bombing raids, w:Zeppelin#1916 raids, w:Zeppelin#1917 raids, and w:Zeppelin#1918 raids of the Wikipedia article. I plan to remove this from Wikipedia and replace with a very short summary. I plan to heavily edit the imported page here and leave only these sections (plus some context), and at the same time rename it to the proper title. --Kubanczyk (discuss • contribs) 14:18, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikibooks does not accept original research. Do you plan to remove that content after the import here? Otherwise you'd want to request an import at Wikiversity. – Adrignola discuss 00:13, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Ups, I didn't know that and assumed otherwise. Seems strange, significant books are all about individual's own research. Well then, no, the whole point is to preserve this original research, as I intend to remove it from Wikipedia. --Kubanczyk (discuss • contribs) 08:08, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Actually, I took a minute to check Wikibooks:Policies and guidelines. It seems that original research is allowed on Wikibooks. This one is historical timeline: it is verifiable and uncontroversial, simply very detailed and very poorly sourced. Wikibooks:Original research is a "draft" only, but it also seems to allow this kind of material. --Kubanczyk (discuss • contribs) 08:20, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
Original research, specifically primary research is not allowed; drafts with no approval have no bearing. Our project scope policy has a specific section that prohibits primary research. "Examples of things not allowed on Wikibooks include proposing new theories and solutions, presenting original ideas, defining new terms, and coining new words." However, it sounds as though your use of the term does not match our definition of it. Please remove any content that is not in line with our project scope from Transwiki:Zeppelin. – Adrignola discuss 12:21, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
OK, please ignore this transwiki request. --Kubanczyk (discuss • contribs) 11:42, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
Forgive me for butting in, but IMO you are still welcome to craft a project based on this idea as long as you conform it to policy. DOn't be too easily discouraged. MHO.Geofferybard (discuss • contribs) 19:13, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Diablo Canyon (Power Plant) at Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant This user now has importer privileges. Thank you to Wikibook administrators. article is quite bare bones considering the vastness of the topic. It will need lots of reworking as its topic becomes central going forward. I will be available to at least set a pattern for expansion of the material, which certainly does justify a full book. The top three will be enough to get a good start on this book! Geofferybard (discuss • contribs) 18:56, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

Hosgri Fault at Wikipedia

Support for DCPP, this is the earthquake fault upon which the plant sits.Geofferybard (discuss • contribs) 19:00, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

San Andreas Fault at Wikipedia

Note verification request. I am not an expert but I did attend NRC presentations on these earthquake faults and can probably buff this material up for say undergrad intro course level earth science and physics.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Note this is not to be a mere macrobook, but this material is essential starting point. "In the beginning was chaos..."

Pressurized water reactor

Type of nuclear reactor at DCPP

Light water reactor

boiling water reactor

nuclear fission

nuclear reactor core

nuclear fuel

uranium

===uranium oxide===

Hi Geofferybard, With the different sections here I was a bit confused as to exactly what needed importing, perhaps you could explain a bit more about what you need. Are you writing a book specifically about the Diablo Canyon Power Plant? Or is this part of California Public Policy and Citizen Participation? Thenub314 (talk) 21:25, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
Book on Diablo per http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Geofferybard#Pending.2FIn_Progress
This will be cloned for SONGS (nuclear plant in San Diego area, then generalizable for use re "lessons learned" from Fukushima. I have already written or spoken on this topic at NRC, Boards of Supervisors and City Councils and can contribute original material but no one person can contribute the voluminous technical material when much exists already on Wikipedia. I was also quite involved with edits on various pages on the Fukushima crisis eg disambig page at http://toolserver.org/~soxred93/pages/index.php?name=Geofferybard&namespace=0&redirects=noredirects

and more to the point http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=20110324213436&limit=500&target=Geofferybard

Geofferybard (discuss • contribs) 06:39, 18 May 2011 (UTC) ==Request for import Tohoku_earthquake_and_tsunami at wikiedia==Geofferybard (discuss • contribs) 06:43, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Fukushima I nuclear accidents at wikipedia

Probably easiest thing to do is to request transwiki account privilege, at least for this project, so I can transwik and de-macro-ize. We don't want a macro but we need a collaborative book first on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. Geofferybard (discuss • contribs) 06:53, 18 May 2011 (UTC)

Status report on Special:Import

I have experienced successful import of most but not all files at wikipedia. The troublesome files seem to be larger files, but some large files, such as 2011 Tokohu Earthquake, did import. Despite perhaps a dozen or more attempts, the files connect to Fukushima Disaster simply won't budge: transwiki, user space, mainspace, none seem to work. As per the text at the top of this page, it may be necessary to copy/paste and attribute through alternative means. However, good news, I have come up with a scheme to provide more detailed attribution. The method has been deployed on a test page from simple wikipedia, where I have had no luck importing. (I will insert the URL at a later time but asap if I am aware that someone is answering this.) The method is as follows:

Rather than merely one link to wikipedia, I copy the entire Wikipedia Revision History. I then create of page of that information on WikiBooks. Ideally, on my creation of the corresponding mainspace page, I link, in the edit comment, to the copied Wikipedia Revision History. Viola! Add a bit of explanatory text, and all the data regarding attribution is conscientiously preserved on our domain. Even if wikipedia were to be hacked by Martian hacker attacks, all those generous CCL contributors would be immortalized at Wikibooks.
The one question I have is whether it is better to set up the attribution page on user space or on mainspace. If the former, is it preferable to set up a /subpage of the discussion page of that mainspace page, or an independent higher level page (not a subpage?)
FYI I am discussing this at metawiki with I think a bureacrat there to see if he can think of any hacks to get the job done.

Best to reply at my user page so I get a New Message alert thanks. Template:Help [[User:Geof Bard गीता]] (discuss • contribs) 04:52, 24 May 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Mesoamerica

I need the first four paragraphs of the Wikipedia article Mesoamerica (the intro paragraphs and the first two paragraphs of the first section) to be imported to The History of the Native Peoples of the Americas/Mesoamerican Cultures.

I also need the Topography and Bodies of Water sections of the same article (Wikipedia:Mesoamerica) to be imported to The History of the Native Peoples of the Americas/Mesoamerican Cultures/Maps

I will dewikify from there and make it work in the text. Thank you! Fountain Pen (discuss • contribs) 21:44, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

OK, I'm working on it. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 20:22, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
Done I couldn't get the page history to come across, but there is now a record in the history showing that it was imported from WP. You can now cut and paste from the WP page (or from the page's previous versions) to effect the merge. If you need anything else, please let me know, and I'll try to help. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 20:35, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
If you feel you have the time, as a courtesy to the other contributors you can copy and paste the previous history by 500 line increments and past it into your discussion page or perhaps an archived subpage. That will probably win you friends in the long run but it can become quite time consuming on larger book projects. I believe the simply link does satisfy the basic CC-BY-SA 3.0 License and GFDL requirements, but the added attention is a nice touch which is always a good means of building trust and confidence. IMHO.[[User:Geof Bard गीता]] (discuss • contribs) 22:12, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
That was a good idea, and I found I had a little time. So I did it. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 19:26, 6 July 2011 (UTC)


Tricky import

Template: Copy edit Nice looking template for pages which are not technically "under construction". I am an importer but per discussion will RFI admin with more technical background unless otherwise directed. [[User:Geof Bard गीता]] (discuss • contribs) 18:49, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Think it is working, have a look and see if it is what you wanted - QU TalkQu 23:10, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Please keep my new article

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/National_etiquette_differences_in_Europe Originally from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Etiquette_in_Europe&diff=prev&oldid=222531968 - June 2008 Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_Europe

I like to have my article approved for the Wikibooks, about the differences of etiquette per European country. Thank you for reading. + Mike D 2011 (discuss • contribs) 03:37, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Please note that Wikibooks is for textbooks, not for articles so a copy / paste from Wikipedia with a few additions may not make it suitable for Wikibooks (I've not read it, so I don't know!). Importing the history from WP just ensure it is in compliance with the site license... The import isn't working for me at the moment. Don't worry, your page isn't going to be deleted. QU TalkQu 21:04, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Diamond_coconut_model

This is a nice example of network externalities, but in a different context than usually seen. It would be great as part of Strategy for Information Markets. TDang (discuss • contribs) 00:01, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

I'm working on it. It should be here shortly. --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 00:08, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Done It can be found at Transwiki:Diamond_coconut_model. Move it to wherever you want it, and happy editing! --Jomegat (discuss • contribs) 00:15, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! TDang (discuss • contribs) 17:49, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Fork_(software_development)

The book Strategy for Information Markets needs some stuff on forking to go with material on standards. TDang (discuss • contribs) 17:45, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Done . Find it here Transwiki:Fork (software development) QU TalkQu 17:51, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! TDang (discuss • contribs) 18:01, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Cournot competition and Wikipedia:Bertrand competition

I'm just about to add material on Bertrand and Cournot competition to the book Strategy for Information Markets, and figure it makes more sense to start with what's already on Wikipedia. TDang (discuss • contribs) 19:20, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Done Transwiki:Bertrand competition, full history, and Transwiki:Cournot competition one revision only (full revision history imports ends with an error) weird the failed import seems to have now unfailed itself after I imported the single revision.QU TalkQu 20:15, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
I'm not sure I follow that, but I'm glad it worked out, thanks! TDang (discuss • contribs) 20:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Maybe I shouldn't do two at once, just for my own confusion's sake. Can you fix my error my moving Transwiki:Cournot_competition to Strategy for Information Markets/Background/Cournot competition? TDang (discuss • contribs) 20:41, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Done --Pi zero (discuss • contribs) 21:23, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks, and sorry for the extra hassle. TDang (discuss • contribs) 21:36, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:High Middle Ages

Base for a new book about the Templars. Please do not dewikify the page. I have placed a request to HethrirBot to preserve all links. Panic (discuss • contribs) 14:48, 15 October 2011 (UTC)

Done at Transwiki:High Middle Ages QU TalkQu 09:37, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. Remembering the Templars project started. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 00:52, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Space colonization

Useful for the Colonizing Outer Space project. Please do not dewikify the page. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 00:24, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

I'm trying at the moment. Won't import.--ЗAНИA talk 00:32, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Done at Transwiki:Space colonization. All history imported. --ЗAНИA talk 00:39, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
Thanks. Waiting for the bot. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 00:52, 21 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Template:Infobox former country

This template is missing from an imported page in The History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Please import to User:Fountain Pen/Engine Room/InfoboxFormerCountryTemplate. Thank you. Fountain Pen (discuss • contribs) 23:12, 30 November 2011 (UTC)

I have tried but server problems won't allow me to do this at the moment. Will try again later.--ЗAНИA talk 11:12, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
Done --darklama 13:31, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

w:LGBT history in Canada

To Canadian LGBT History, please? --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 03:00, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

Done at Canadian LGBT History. All history imported. --ЗAНИA talk 11:07, 10 December 2011 (UTC)

w:Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis of Puységur

To be used in the Hypnosis project. Please do not dewikify. --Panic (discuss • contribs) 04:39, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Done at Transwiki:Armand-Marie-Jacques de Chastenet, Marquis of Puységur QU TalkQu 23:25, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

w:Annie on My Mind

To LGBT Young Adult Literature/Annie on My Mind, please? --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 08:09, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Done QU TalkQu 23:24, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Georgian language

The first page or two of a Georgian instructional Wikibook can be created with information in the WP article, plus information found online. Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 08:18, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Are you asking for this to be imported so you can begin such a book, or suggesting someone else could? QU TalkQu 23:26, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
So I can. Georgian is one of the odder languages I'd like to learn, but I'm not the only person I've known who'd like to learn it. And the Wikipedia article is in fact almost a complete reference, but once I've got that here, I'd start at least with the basic lessons. --Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 06:56, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Actually, I was going to hold off until I had autoconfirmed status, because I didn't realize you'd import them directly (looking at all the Transwiki namespaces.) What I really wanted was Wikipedia:Georgian grammar to Georgian/Nouns.

Done QU TalkQu 09:45, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Would it also be possible to import Wikipedia:Georgian language itself to Georgian/Introduction, Wikipedia:Georgian verb paradigm to Georgian/Verbs ( Done QU TalkQu 09:45, 25 December 2011 (UTC)), and Wikipedia:Georgian alphabet to Georgian/Alphabet ( Done QU TalkQu 09:45, 25 December 2011 (UTC)) I'm going to create the Georgian page now, and wait on import for the others.
Thanks, Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 07:07, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

All done. Full revision history for all except Wikipedia:Georgian language and Wikipedia:Georgian alphabet which kept erroring on the import. QU TalkQu 09:45, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Unless the name is exactly the same, the import has to go to the Transwiki namespace and then be moved. However, there's no problem requesting an import with the final destination so it can be imported then immediately moved. QU TalkQu 09:55, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Awesome, thanks!
--Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 14:52, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

w:Ukrainian diaspora

To Ukrainian/Diaspora, please. --Thereen (discuss • contribs) 19:54, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Done QU TalkQu 23:21, 23 December 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Turkish vocabulary

Could someone import Wikipedia:Turkish vocabulary to Turkish/Postpositions? The relevant vocab I want from that article are the postostions, conjuctions, and some of the adjectives, and the latter already has its own page. I'm not sure if what I'd be using merits importing, but I figured I'd err on the side of caution. I'm willing to CP and attribute in the talk pages if it's any trouble though. --Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 19:04, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Done QU TalkQu 21:19, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
Thanks! --Quintucket (discuss • contribs) 22:08, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
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