Forum:Question about importing

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Now that ShoutWiki has upgraded to 1.35, I'd like to move a wiki here. However, I can't do so by myself because importing has been restricted to Staff only. Where can I request an import? I can't do it on Phabricator since my account there was disabled. Tali64^2 (talk) 13:58, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

You can't. We're not importing wikis until further notice, it's a long-standing policy. Special:Import is restricted because the few have ruined it for the many by trying to do exactly what you're implying, which is to import an entire wiki through a special page which is intended for a couple of pages. --Lewis Cawte (talk) 00:14, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

I didn't mean through Special:Import. I was thinking that a request would be filed somewhere with the target wiki's subdomain and an XML dump of the wiki that would be imported. I've heard about a import queue being implemented sometime in the future, but as far as I'm aware, there still isn't one.

By the way, here's the wiki I want to move: Creative Wikis Wiki. It's small, only a few pages. Tali64^2 (talk) 02:23, 1 March 2023 (UTC)