Thread:Merrystar/@comment-4142476-20141023194558/@comment-11001-20141104051448

Hello Yatalu. I apologize for the delay in responding again.

Your "plan" for doing the merge by copying WLB to the existing Translate Wikia is considerably more complicated than it would be to copy Translate Wikia back to WLB, and also includes some things that cannot be done.

It is not possible to move Message Walls from one Wikia to another. All Message Walls will be lost if you choose to close WLB and re-assign the URL.

It is also not possible to move Maps; you will need to completely recreate your map.

The more difficult part of merging content is moving images. Translate Wiki has 22 images total. WLB has over 300. Moving those images is going to be a lot of work.

WLB is highly customized. You would need to recreate all of that.

Translate Wiki has nothing but the content pages (which are nearly all tiny), a few templates, and a few images that needs to be moved. A possible merge strategy would be:


 * 1) bot move all useable pages on Translate Wiki to Dictionary:
 * 2) export all pages and templates; download any images actually being used.
 * 3) request a Dictionary namespace on WLB
 * 4) import all pages and templates.  reupload 20 images if desired.
 * 5) request that translate wikia be closed and the URL redirected to wlb

This would cause effectively no disruption to the active WLB, nor any need to temporarily stop editing/lock pages/ or anything of that sort to finalize a move. You would not lose your message walls, forums, map, etc. And the end result is the same.