Thread:Merrystar/@comment-24045678-20170416012828/@comment-11001-20170421133446

Yes. I understood what you were asking.

The short answer is you can't import it directly into a specific namespace.

There are two options and I'm not sure which will work better for you. One is to use a bot (or other tool) to rename the pages before you export them. Most of the merges I've seen involved much smaller numbers of pages and people just moved them by hand but that would be a lot of work for you.

Alternately you can edit the XML files created by the export tool and do an automated text replacement to add the namespace into the titles. Then when you upload them they will go to the right spot.

I suspect the latter is somewhat easier on the scale of thousands of pages unless you happen to be familiar with using bots for renaming (or know somebody willing to help you with that) in which case it might be a tossup.