Is a very broad Special:Import source list something folks want for Wikimedia wikis?

I recently helped fix a blocker for the 18 year old feature request at
"T17583: Enable importing across all Wikimedia projects."[0] Now I am
wondering two things:

* Is it still a generally valuable and desired thing to have any
Wikimedia wiki be able to import content from any other public
Wikimedia wiki?
* Are there any technical volunteers out there who have the energy to
try and bring this across the finish line if it is still wanted?

The slightly longer version of this story is that [[User:This, that
and the other]] did some great work on this problem in 2015, but did
not get the whole project done. We have working configuration in the
Beta Cluster.[1][2] We also have a very stale, but readable, config
patch in Gerrit showing how it could be deployed for production.[3]
What we don't have at this point is a compelling use case for this
change and a champion to touch code and have conversations until it is
all working.


[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T17583
[1]: <https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/operations/mediawiki-config/+/2df0598d2116ef8725896e860ff5ab5c6022df3b/wmf-config/CommonSettings-labs.php#387>
[2]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/plugins/gitiles/operations/mediawiki-config/+/refs/heads/master/wmf-config/import.php
[3]: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/c/operations/mediawiki-config/+/258943

Bryan
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Bryan Davis                                        Wikimedia Foundation
Principal Software Engineer                               Boise, ID USA
[[m:User:BDavis (WMF)]]                                      irc: bd808