Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24439254-20140320005010/@comment-5175866-20140321225330

All together Merging is a difficult process. I reccomend that MPTrilogy is granted Admin access on here before the merge so they can have access tools to do this. There are several steps which I will explain here. This is a long message but should help you through the tedious process.

Go to Special:AllPages on both wikis and compare the list. Make sure there are no duplicates (as in meaning of content). Make sure to read the title and the content. If they are duplicates then add a category on WWE and put all pages that have a duplicate page on Prowrestling wiki in there. Then I reccomend you request a bot to be flagged (create another account, and ask staff to flag it [on this wiki that is] linking this discussion) so that way you can do some stuff when you are done.

Once you have all of that done, go to Special:Export on the WWE wiki. Copy and paste this list into Special export and make sure to have one item per line. Then go to Special:ListFiles and type in the name of the file (File:imagename) and then press enter to space it out for one item per line. Then go to Special:PrefixIndex and select the template namespace and choose the templates you would like to move over (there are many default templates that will already be on prowrestling wiki. If there are templates that are dups in meaning then subcategorize those into a category under the duplicate pages). Then select MediaWiki namespace on PrefixIndex and select any mediawiki pages if any you would like to move over.

Export these (this will exclude your duplicates). This might be a big download and then you will need to import it on prowrestling through Special:Import. Upload the file, and give it some time to create the pages. Then go back to your duplicate content and make sure there are no duplicate titles first of all (that is pages with the same name as in on prowrestling). If there is use the bot to add a 2 to the end of each them. Then export these over. Once these are exported you will need to use the bot to combine pages and merge histories(there is a help page you can look at if you don't know how). Make sure to discuss merge changes with your community. Once you have evertyhing merged request WWE to be closed, and redirected to prowrestling. From there you will need to manage policy changes and all. Hoped this helped!