User talk:Raidarr/Don't import Wikipedia

Interesting
Reminds me of how whenever I structure a wiki I try to do the bare minimum. Only thing I tend to import (even then, it's from Meta wiki here) is the Reply to module & Ping template, as I find those useful (but I try to stick to latest revision). I will say a big point to add to this essay is that Wikipedia imports artificially inflate the revision ID's, which canno be undone to make the count more organic. I will admit I have imported SSB articles on to Mariopedia but those are endangered of being removed on their home wiki (and Mariopedia isn't my main wiki), so.

I think important thing is that even with those who want to import from Wikipedia I think the better idea is to come up with a compromise in a sense. Like if someone wants to add templates that helps in tackling long-term abuse accounts or persistent vandals, then we can try and make a simpler one that doesn't reply on so many embedded modules or templates. Bawitdaba (talk) 14:34, 2 June 2022 (UTC)


 * I share the minimalist approach, and prefer to see things only as they are used, needed and understood. The understanding here is key; it's a bad pitfall to dump things en masse onto a wiki that are hard to cleanly get rid of which you do not have a clear plan with. Interesting bit on revisions, that does depend on how it imports. I would not want to 'glue' the revisions to users on Miraheze given it's typically from another platform, but if you do grab it I'm in favor of the raw attribution still being there. In your case (importing from Mariopedia), if the pages will be removed then a full import including attribution is reasonable.
 * There are a few ideas floating around for offering 'sanitized' content to import and I knew there were Wikipedia templates sanitized and offered through Wikipedia itself, I'm just not sure where. To be honest, with rare exception I find the LTA/vandal templates to be fairly useless; the information can be conveyed in a sentence, or typically just through the block summary, and the rest is just drizzles of icing. --Raidarr (talk) 22:21, 4 June 2022 (UTC)