Last modified: 2013-12-16 09:33:21 UTC
Currently full history imports are disabled on WMF wikis, but we get the oh-so-generic "Import failed: Could not open import file" error when attempting to do so. Please have Special:Import return a meaningful error message for each kind of error - this one in particular is quite misleading.
(In reply to comment #0) > Currently full history imports are disabled on WMF wikis, but we get the > oh-so-generic "Import failed: Could not open import file" error when attempting > to do so. Please have Special:Import return a meaningful error message for each > kind of error - this one in particular is quite misleading. > Apologies; it's not disabled totally, we're just limited to 1000 revisions (when it works). Still, the problem of terrible error messages remains generally.
The wiki doing the import can't possibly know that :), it only knows that it can't get the data from Http::request() that it wanted. Fwiw: I could do full history imports on my local install as of a few days ago. It doesn't _really_ get the full history, it just thinks it does. The importing wiki doesn't know how many revisions an article has, so it takes all that Special:Export gives it (in this case, 1000 max).
(In reply to comment #2) > The wiki doing the import can't possibly know that :), it only knows that it > can't get the data from Http::request() that it wanted. > > Fwiw: I could do full history imports on my local install as of a few days ago. > It doesn't _really_ get the full history, it just thinks it does. The importing > wiki doesn't know how many revisions an article has, so it takes all that > Special:Export gives it (in this case, 1000 max). > Then it should check *how many Export is allowed to give us, *how many we actually got, and *how many there actually are So we can have meaningful messages like: *"We got 1000/1000 possible revisions, but there are still 442 remaining unimported revisions. [import-the-rest button]" *"We got 888/888 possible revisions - that's everything!" *"We got 345/1000 possible revisions because something bad happened. [try-again-but-skip-first-345-revs button]" *"We got 1/1 possible revisions because that's all we're allowed. Boo-hoo." *"We got nothing because something bad happened. Foreign wiki should give us 1000 revisions. [ask-again button]" *"We got nothing because Export on foreign wiki is disabled. Boo-hoo."
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 6646 ***
