BackupWiki/Help:Copying from other wikis/Naming and Categorization
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When copying pages from other wikis, some conventions need to be followed:
- Page names need to be prefixed based on the wiki the backed up page is from.
- Pages need to be categorized based on the type of project they are from (e.g. Wikipedia pages).
| Origin wiki | Title prefix | Category |
|---|---|---|
| English Wikipedia | Wp/en/ | Wikipedia pages |
| Spanish Wiktionary | Wt/es/ | Wiktionary pages |
| French Wikibooks | Wb/fr/ | Wikibooks pages |
| Italian Wikiquote | Wq/it/ | Wikiquote pages |
| German Wikinews | Wn/de/ | Wikinews pages |
| Polish Wikivoyage | Wy/pl/ | Wikivoyage pages |
| English Wikiversity | Wv/en/ | Wikiversity pages |
| Turkish Wikisource | Ws/tr/ | Wikisource pages |
| Incubator | Incubator/ | Incubator pages |
| Commons | Commons/ | Multilingual content project pages |
| Meta | Meta/ | Meta pages |
| Outreach | Outreach/ | Coordination project pages |
| Wikitech | Wikitech/ | Technical project pages |
For other multilingual projects, the "Project" namespace's adjusted name is used instead (e.g. Meta/ for Meta-Wiki) except for MediaWiki, for which "MediaWiki" is used.
Non-mainspace pages
User pages
Only the owner of a userpage may make a backup for it.
Project & help pages
When copying a page in project space, (e.g. "Wikipedia:" from Wikipedia, "Wiktionary:" from Wiktionary) name the page like normal with the adjusted name for the project namespace in such project replaced with "Project" (e.g. w:Wikipedia:Vandalism-only account → Wp/en/Project:Vandalism-only account).
Files, templates, and categories
Put the namespace before prefixing like normal (e.g. wikt:Template:rfd → Template:Wt/en/rfd).