Importer

An importer is a user with import rights, generally speaking.

On Wikimedia wikis, there are two kinds of importers:

• transwiki importers can perform only transwiki import (import permission);
• importers can perform both transwiki and upload import (import and importupload permissions).

Import is a rarely needed feature; for instance, it's not needed for CC-BY-SA copyright compliance, see Terms of use.

These flags are enabled on all wikis, but can be assigned only by stewards after a request on dedicated page (especially the import flag which includes the importupload right which is particularly dangerous) and only on a temporary basis for a specific task, unless the project has a local process and policy to assign permanent import rights.

Very few projects need and have such a policy, including:

• German Wikipedia,
• English Wikibooks,
• French Wiktionary,
• Incubator,
• Italian Wiktionary,
• MediaWiki wiki (importers, transwiki importers).

Wikis where bureaucrats (or sysops) can assign import rights

On some wikis local bureaucrats (or sysops) can assign and remove import rights. Their list is in the Table below.

Transwiki
No	Wiki	Bug	Fixed on	Notes
1	simplewiki	bug 23988	2010-06-16	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats. See also bug 23462
2	nowiki	bug 21041	2009-12-17	Assigned by local sysops and removed by bureaucrats.
3	zhwikivoyage	bug 60085	2014-01-16	Assigned and removed by sysops. See also bug 61238
4	fawikivoyage	bug 71681	2014-10-07	Assigned and removed by sysops.
Transwiki and importer
5	ckbwiki	bug 52633	2013-08-11	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
6	frwiktionary	bug 23545	2010-05-23	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
7	mediawikiwiki	bug 17071	2009-03-16	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
8	checkuserwiki	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
9	donatewiki	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
10	foundationwiki	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
11	noboard_chapterswikimedia	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
12	officewiki	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
13	ombudsmenwiki	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
14	otrs_wikiwiki	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
15	stewardwiki	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
16	enwikibooks	bug 24304and T278683	2010-08-15/2021-04-13	Assigned and removed by local sysops.
Importer
16	arwiki	bug 19138	2009-06-29	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
17	incubatorwiki	?	2011-04-06	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
18	bnwiki	?	?	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
19	urwiki	bug 19138	2012-12-12	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
20	enwikiversity	T294930	2021-11-04	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.
21	dewiki	T331921	2023-04-19	Assigned and removed by bureaucrats.