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XML import on Meta

Status:    In progress

Please import the following pages to Meta with full history (convenient link to Special:Export):

There are 676 revisions in all, only two of which (188443, 188444) aren't mine but fandom:dev:User:Kirkburn's, who seems to be the same as en:User:Kirkburn. These two edits are trivial so copyright is probably not a concern. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 04:06, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

If copyright isn't a concern just for this in, link to your original - no reason we need to host all these revisions here. — xaosflux Talk 11:01, 6 March 2026 (UTC)
I need to preserve those for development convenience. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 13:16, 6 March 2026 (UTC)

This seems like it is creating a mess of licensing, with the fork missing licenses that then would be reincorporated and converted.

  • "mainline" on enwiki (2014-02-05 --> 2025-05-02), licenses:
    Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License
    GNU Free Documentation License
    GNU General Public License version 2
  • "COPY PASTE FORK" to fandom, split from mainline at this point: (2022-01-29 --> 2025-10-14), licenses:
    GNU General Public License version 2
    Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License 3.0 (Unported)
  • Not to mention this is creating a permanent fork from the mainline - not that there is anything specifically wrong with that, but 'rebranding' may be in order as it is claiming to be the same software in tags, etc. — xaosflux Talk 13:34, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
Technically, I only added a few buttons. The core functionalities remain unchanged and new changes to the original were copied over. Regarding copyright, I hereby release all my changes into the public domain, or CC Zero where that isn't possible. I suppose that means the content can now be copied back to Wikimedia without causing problems. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 22:53, 18 March 2026 (UTC)
@Xaosflux: since you commented here, would you please review this again after NDKDD's comment? -Barras talk 12:12, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
I don't think this is necessary, and not sure about importing someone else's not quite compatible copyright from an external project. This import certainly isn't necessary for this user to use their script. — xaosflux Talk 12:55, 9 April 2026 (UTC)

This import certainly isn't necessary for this user to use their script.

@Xaosflux: That's not true. Ever since the recent CSP update, scripts from most external domains, including Fandom, are no longer allowed. That means the script pages need to be either imported or manually copied to Wikimedia. I prefer the first way, because that allows me to keep the history, but if this request is rejected I will have to resort to the second. What copyright problems are we talking about here, when the original pages are hosted on Wikimedia (and therefore can just be re-forked) and I'm the sole author of the derivatives? NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 16:30, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
No one is stopping you from pasting in the "current version" - even if you may also then be violating some external parties licensing on fandom. — xaosflux Talk 17:40, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
@Xaosflux: Of course I can just copy and paste these manually, but I want to preserve the development history. Again, I don't think there are any copyright problems, and even if there is, then it wouldn't be here on Wikimedia. I'm asking for an import to be done; if you think that's not warranted, feel free to reject it and I'll be on my way. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 19:13, 9 April 2026 (UTC)
@NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh FWIW, if you just copy Fandom's JWB script to Wikipedia it wouldn't work. I've done a large work to port Fandom JWB to Wikipedia, see https://github.com/wikimedia-gadgets/JWB/pull/35 and w:User:Well very well/JWB.js/load.js (install it and it would work). Well very well (talk) 11:10, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
@Well very well: I'm aware of that (and have learned it the hard way), but my JWB originated from the original enwiki JWB, not Fandom's JWB. NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh 11:14, 12 April 2026 (UTC)

Large-scale non-encyclopedic content by a single user (Xaahax)

I came across articles created by the user Xaahax on Sahwiki. The pages I reviewed are all far from an encyclopedic tone and appear to consist of content based on the creator’s own ideas. I reported a few of them via (GSR), but later realized that the user has created more than 800 articles with similar content.
The relevant wiki has only one sysop, who is inactive. I believe this is the most appropriate place to raise the issue, so I wanted to bring it to your attention.Wooze★ 09:43, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

@Wooze not sure what I'm missing here, it seems that sahwiki has 2 active local sysops who can deal with such "bad content pages" issues? — xaosflux Talk 14:10, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

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Category:Meta-Wiki requests Category:Multilingualism Category:Steward requests Category:Wikimedia projects