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I am an administrator on Odia (or) Wikipedia. But Admins are not granted "Special:Import" rights or its a bug I do not know. Its been several months I have repoted a bug at bugzilla here. Can you please look into it. And If it is a bug, can't be resolved soon, can I get Import rights on or.wiki if that works. If you are replying late, whisper me back on my talk page please. Thank You in advance :-) -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 06:40, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Hi Ansumang. The delay was caused by a misunderstanding, so it can be resolved pretty quickly. The import right lets you copy edit histories from specific wikis ("transwiki import sources"). You need to specify which wikis you want to import from. For example, see a screenshot with wikimediafoundation.org available as an import source. —Pathoschild 16:13, 08 April 2012 (UTC)

Well en.wikipedia and commons:. But I am little confused now, couldn't find detailed info. Admins can be granted only "import" rights or both "import" and "Transwiki import" rights ? Because I see two User groups "Importer" and "Transwiki Importer". And here w:Wikipedia:User_access_levels#importupload page I see the importupload permission denied for Admins. One more thing here its written "So if you have your own MediaWiki installation, then you should be able to see the 'Special:Import' page there." Does that mean to upload a xml file I need MediaWiki installed in my system? Please do reply. Thanks a ton :-) -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 21:16, 8 April 2012 (UTC)

There are two ways to import edit histories:

• Transwiki import (import) lets you import an edit history from a predefined wiki, by specifying the wiki and page name you want to import. You cannot import from any wiki that is not predefined for importing, and you cannot modify what is imported. This is fairly safe, though it can be unreliable when importing large edit histories.
• XML import (importupload) lets you upload an XML file which represents an article edit history. This is very flexible — you can import any article from any wiki, modify it before upload, or even create a whole new history. However, this is considered dangerous — it is very easy to forge edit histories using this method, which can break attribution and be very difficult to undo.

There's no technical limitation against giving users both rights, but XML import is almost never allowed on Wikimedia wikis; transwiki import is normally sufficient. —Pathoschild 14:21, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

• Hope the bug get resolved soon. Thanks a lot, am grateful :) -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 19:08, 14 April 2012 (UTC)

Regarding this bug, was there any kind of discussion about enabling that on Odia Wikipedia? — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 11:15, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

No. -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 17:17, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

That is not a good practice. You should inform communities (even if that's an inactive one) before having any site change. Just to keep the log. Since it is done now, I hope you will do so in future. — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 02:51, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Okay Tanvir. I am sorry, I din't do that. I will do so in future for sure. Thanks for your concern, appreciated. -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 05:52, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Editor flag

Hello Tanvir, I have been thinking Can we have Editor rights on Odia Wikipedia just to have few regular editors feel special ? If that possible, can you tell me what is the procedure to enable that. AFAIK Its just a rghts with no extra tool, correct me if I am wrong. Thanks :-) -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 06:05, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

What kind of rights you need with the editor flag there? I think a autopatrol flag should be enough satisfy them. :) — [ Tanvir | Talk ] 05:05, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

I don't know what rights the editor flag has ? I am talking about users whom we can't give autopatrol flag. I am talking about a flag just for sake of giving one, kind of autoconfirmed!. I have seen editor flag on wikis. Is that possible ? :-/ -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 11:01, 20 April 2012 (UTC)

This is indeed possible. You have to figure out the rights you want to put in editor flags, and then see if they exist in your wiki already, if so, then get a consensus and after than file a new bug in Bugzilla. Feel free to ask me if you have any more questions, but I often forget to see your talk page, so if I don't answer in few days, please poke me on my talk page. Thanks. — T. 09:25, 27 April 2012 (UTC)

Thanks Tanvir. I will do the necessary and poke you. There are some other minor interface issues on Odia Wiki, I ll discuss those soon :-) -- ɑηsuмaη ^{ʈ ᶏ ɭ Ϟ} 19:05, 10 May 2012 (UTC)