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

If I understand your question correctly, I ran an RFC about a similar topic
a few years ago:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Default_import_sources

Back then, it was closed with several specific default wikis.

I personally don't see a big problem in allowing everything, but other
people may have a different opinion, so maybe it's worth running an RFC in
a similar format.

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‫בתאריך יום ג׳, 24 במרץ 2026 ב-19:26 מאת ‪Bryan Davis via Wikitech-l‬‏ <‪
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> 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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> [[m:User:BDavis (WMF)]]                                      irc: bd808
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