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class="sidebar-title"><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Integrate" title="Wikipedia:Integrate">Linking and<br/>page manipulation</a></th></tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Linking and diffs</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:URL" title="Help:URL">URLs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link" title="Help:Link">Links</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan" title="Wikipedia:Orphan">Orphans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Interlanguage_links" title="Help:Interlanguage links">Interlanguage links</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Interwiki_linking" title="Help:Interwiki linking">Interwiki linking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Shortcut" title="Wikipedia:Shortcut">Shortcuts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:External_links" title="Wikipedia:External links">External links</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:External_link_icons" title="Help:External link icons">External link icons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Plainlinks" title="Help:Plainlinks">Plainlinks</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Link_color" title="Help:Link color">Link color</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Colon_trick" title="Help:Colon trick">Colon trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Pipe_trick" title="Help:Pipe trick">Pipe trick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Self_link" title="Help:Self link">Self links</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:What_links_here" title="Help:What links here">What links here</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Linksearch" title="Help:Linksearch">Linksearch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Linking">Manual of Style on linking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Navigation_template" title="Wikipedia:Navigation template">Navigation templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Hatnote" title="Wikipedia:Hatnote">Hatnotes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Links" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Links">Template index for links</a></li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Diff" title="Help:Diff">Diffs</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simplest_diff_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simplest diff guide">Simplest diff guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Simple_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Simple diff and link guide">Simple diff and link guide</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Complete_diff_and_link_guide" title="Wikipedia:Complete diff and link guide">Complete diff and link guide</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Categorization</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Category</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorization" title="Wikipedia:Categorization">Categorization guideline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Classification" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Classification">Classification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Container_category" title="Wikipedia:Container category">Container category</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Categorization">FAQ for categorization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories" title="Wikipedia:FAQ/Categories">FAQ for categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categories,_lists,_and_navigation_templates" title="Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates">Categories, lists, and navigation templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_articles_about_people" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing articles about people">Categorizing articles about people</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:People_by_year" title="Wikipedia:People by year">By year</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Categorizing_redirects" title="Wikipedia:Categorizing redirects">Redirect categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:User_categories" title="Wikipedia:User categories">User categories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization">Overcategorization</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User_categories" title="Wikipedia:Overcategorization/User categories">User categories</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Category_namespace" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Category namespace">Template index for categories</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Moving and redirecting</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:How_to_move_a_page" title="Help:How to move a page">How to move a page for beginners</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Redirect" title="Wikipedia:Redirect">Redirects</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_a_page" title="Wikipedia:Moving a page">Moving a page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requested_moves" title="Wikipedia:Requested moves">Requested moves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_guide/Fixing_cut-and-paste_moves" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Administrators' guide/Fixing cut-and-paste moves">How to fix cut-and-paste moves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Moving_files_to_Commons" title="Wikipedia:Moving files to Commons">Moving files to Commons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Userfication" title="Wikipedia:Userfication">Userfication</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:When_to_place_technical_requests_in_%22Administrator_needed%22" title="Help:When to place technical requests in "Administrator needed"">Non-admin and admin-only moves</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Moving" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Moving">Template index for moving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Redirect_pages" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Redirect pages">Template index for redirects</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Merging</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merging" title="Wikipedia:Merging">Merging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Proposed_article_mergers" title="Wikipedia:Proposed article mergers">Proposed article mergers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_history_merge" title="Wikipedia:Requests for history merge">Requests for history merge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merge_and_delete" title="Wikipedia:Merge and delete">Merge and delete?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Merge_what%3F" title="Wikipedia:Merge what?">Merge what?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Delete_or_merge" title="Wikipedia:Delete or merge">Delete or merge?</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Merging" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Merging">Template index for merging</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Merge" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Merge">WikiProject Merge</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Splitting</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Splitting">Splitting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_index/Splitting" title="Wikipedia:Template index/Splitting">Template index for splitting</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Importing and copying</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:How_to_import_articles" title="Help:How to import articles">How to import articles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_importation" title="Wikipedia:Requests for page importation">Requests for page importation</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Import</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Help:Export" title="Help:Export">Export</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Copying_within_Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia">Copying within Wikipedia</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="color: var(--color-base)"><div class="sidebar-list-title-c">Protecting</div></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Help:Protection" title="Help:Protection">Protection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Protection_policy" title="Wikipedia:Protection policy">Protection policy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:High-risk_templates" title="Wikipedia:High-risk templates">High-risk templates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_protection" title="Wikipedia:Requests for page protection">Requests for page protection</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Rough_guide_to_semi-protection" title="Wikipedia:Rough guide to semi-protection">Rough guide to semi-protection</a></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div 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href="/wiki/Template:Linking_and_page_manipulation" title="Template:Linking and page manipulation"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Linking_and_page_manipulation" title="Template talk:Linking and page manipulation"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Linking_and_page_manipulation" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Linking and page manipulation"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Importers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Importers">Importers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Transwiki_importers" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:Transwiki importers">transwiki importers</a></b>, and <b><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators" title="Wikipedia:Administrators">administrators</a></b> can apply two types of import using the <a href="/wiki/Special:Import" title="Special:Import">Special:Import</a> page: </p> <ul><li><b>Transwiki import</b> or <b>interwiki import</b>: import pages directly from another WMF wiki; the settings of the destination wiki determine which source wikis are enabled; <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion lx"><a href="/wiki/MediaWiki:Import-interwiki-text" title="MediaWiki:Import-interwiki-text">MediaWiki:Import-interwiki-text</a> <span style="font-size:90%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Import-interwiki-text&action=edit">edit</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Import-interwiki-text&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MediaWiki talk:Import-interwiki-text (page does not exist)">talk</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Import-interwiki-text&action=history">history</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki:Import-interwiki-text">links</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Import-interwiki-text&action=watch">watch</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=MediaWiki%3AImport-interwiki-text">logs</a>)</span></span> appears. Transwiki imports can be performed by administrators and transwiki importers.</li> <li><b>Importupload</b>: import a file in a special <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a> format produced by <a href="/wiki/Help:Export" title="Help:Export">exporting</a> pages from another wiki; <span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion lx"><a href="/wiki/MediaWiki:Importtext" title="MediaWiki:Importtext">MediaWiki:Importtext</a> <span style="font-size:90%;">(<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Importtext&action=edit">edit</a> | <a href="/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki_talk:Importtext&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="MediaWiki talk:Importtext (page does not exist)">talk</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Importtext&action=history">history</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Whatlinkshere/MediaWiki:Importtext">links</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Importtext&action=watch">watch</a> | <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=MediaWiki%3AImporttext">logs</a>)</span></span> appears. This type of import is restricted to importers and stewards.</li></ul> <p><b>Others</b> apply <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_page_importation" title="Wikipedia:Requests for page importation">Wikipedia:Requests for page importation</a>. </p><p>After importing, you would be able to see any new pages that were in the file. Where pages had the same name as existing pages in the wiki, the pages will be overwritten by the content from the file if the timestamp of the article is newer. If an error occurred during the import, e.g. due to badly formatted XML in the file, then you may find the import is partially complete (some pages imported, but not all). Since pages are overwritten, attempting the import again should not be a problem. </p><p>If you included history information when you performed the export, then you should also see information about the edits in the 'history' of the imported pages, and in the user contributions. The edits will not show up in 'recent changes' (neither positioned at the time of the original edit, nor at the time of importing). </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc"/> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Editing_the_import_file" data-mw-thread-id="h-Editing_the_import_file"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Editing_the_import_file"></span>Editing the import file<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Editing_the_import_file"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Help:Import&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Editing the import file"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the case of upload import, because of the simple readable file format the XML file can easily be edited between exporting and importing. This should be done with caution and integrity, one can make antedated edits and use false usernames, and in combination with deletion, one can "<a href="/wiki/Historical_revisionism" title="Historical revisionism">change history</a>". Applications of this editing include: </p> <ul><li>adding a note to the edit summary about the importing</li> <li>changing usernames and/or page names to avoid name conflicts (just between the title tags and between the username tags or also in links and signatures)</li> <li>changing namespace names into the generic or the applicable ones (ditto)</li></ul> <p>Note that if two versions of the page have the same timestamp (because one was uploaded with the same timestamp as a preexisting version), the later (imported) version will show up in the edit history but not in the article itself. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Merging_histories_and_other_complications" data-mw-thread-id="h-Merging_histories_and_other_complications"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Merging_histories_and_other_complications"></span>Merging histories and other complications<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Merging_histories_and_other_complications"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Help:Import&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Merging histories and other complications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>If the import includes history information, and the edits involved a username that in the importing project is used by somebody else, then upload import should be applied, and the occurrences of the username in the XML file should first be replaced by another name, to avoid ambiguity. If the username was not used yet in the importing project then the user contributions are available anyway, although an account is not automatically created. </p><p>Just like when a page is referred to in a link, and/or put in a URL, generic namespace names are automatically converted, and if a prefix is not a namespace name the page will arrive in the main namespace. However, e.g. "Meta:" may be ignored (dropped) on a project that uses that prefix for interwiki linking. It may be desirable to change it in the XML file to "Project:" before importing. </p><p>If a page name exists already, importing revisions of a page with that name causes the page histories to be merged. Note that after inserting a revision between two existing revisions in the page history, the change made by the user who made the next edit seems different from what it actually has been: to see the actual change made by the user one has to take the diff between the two already existing revisions, not the diff with respect to the inserted one. Therefore this should not be done except to reconstruct the true page history. </p><p>A revision is not imported if a revision of the same date, and exactly the same time up to the second, exists already. In practice this occurs only when the revision has already been imported before, or when the revision one attempts to import was imported the other way around, or both were imported from a third site. </p><p>An edit summary may refer to, and possibly link to, another page. This may be confusing when the page has been imported but the target page has not. </p><p>The edit summary does not automatically show that the page has been imported, but in the case of upload import that can be added to the edit summaries in the XML file before importing. That can avoid some potential sources of ambiguity and/or confusion. When editing the XML file with find/replace, note that adding a text to the edit summaries requires distinguishing between edits that already have an edit summary, hence comment tags in the XML file, and those without these tags. If there are multiple pairs of comment tags, only the last one is effective. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Large-scale_transfer" data-mw-thread-id="h-Large-scale_transfer"><span data-mw-comment-start="" id="h-Large-scale_transfer"></span>Large-scale transfer<span data-mw-comment-end="h-Large-scale_transfer"></span></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Help:Import&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Large-scale transfer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>For a large-scale transfer, somebody with sufficient system privileges can move data within the server, which is more practical than sending large XML files from the server to a user's local computer and then back to the server. </p><p>Large files may be rejected for two reasons. The PHP upload limit, found in PHP configuration file php.ini </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-ini mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="w"> </span><span class="c1">; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.</span> <span class="w"> </span><span class="na">upload_max_filesize</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">20M</span> </pre></div> <p>And also the hidden variable limiting the size in the input form. Found in the MediaWiki source code, <i>includes/specials/SpecialImport.php</i> </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-xml mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="nt"><input</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="na">type=</span><span class="s">'hidden'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">'MAX_FILE_SIZE'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="na">value=</span><span class="s">'20000000'</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">/></span> </pre></div> <p>Maybe you should change following four derectives in php.ini </p> <div class="mw-highlight mw-highlight-lang-ini mw-content-ltr" dir="ltr"><pre><span></span><span class="c1">; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.</span> <span class="na">post_max_size</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">20M</span> <span class="na">max_execution_time</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="o">=</span><span 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