Thread:Merrystar/@comment-4142476-20141023194558/@comment-4142476-20141109081054

Hi. I have merged a 1000 article and a 600 article wiki into a 100 article wiki before, and even though I agree that it cost effort, the import function makes it really doable, definitely when I'm including page histories. I believe I finished it in two days back then.

As for images, I think I mentioned in my first post that I have just about every image (close to 300) on my computer. It would be just reuploading them which, as a lot of them are sets under the same license, can be done fast through MultipleUpload. The above merge example also included reuploading images of 2008-2013, which took me only a couple of hours.

WLB's customization is in CSS and JS pages for the most part. I would just need to check WikiFeatures and ThemeDesigner, which takes maybe 5 minutes. We also only have one map, which is not all that hard to recreate either.

Message Walls is the only part that may be an issue; we were hoping to be able to ask Staff for help from the backend and move them for us, either or duplicate them on translation.wikia. If that's not possible, I have started a thread here to hear what my users think about moving without Message Walls.

Regarding your merge proposal, if that's more convenient for Staff, I can do things like extra namespaces and closing/redirecting myself. That way, it will be less effort for you guys as well as faster for us.