Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-18812574-20180425170008/@comment-18812574-20180428085345

Step one complete. For a mass merge we need to contact a member of staff on CC, but I am 99% it is possible.

On this article (which I already linked) the process for a merge is fully explained. They are pretty clear that they want the blogs posted on both sites to occur before contacting staff though, because otherwise we'd be wasting their time: The best reason to merge is when the active communities on multiple wikis realize that their work would be more organized and attract a larger number of readers and contributors if they were combined. In this case, the admins and users of the communities should discuss the merger thoroughly, making sure to advertise the discussions on both wikis so everyone involved has a chance to contribute ideas.

When there is a consensus that the merger should go through, users can begin merging the content as described below, or contact FANDOM staff for technical assistance. Provide a link to the merger discussion to staff, otherwise, they'll need to ask for clarification that the merger is a community decision, not one user's whim.

For a technical explanation of how the merge happens, see Exporting pages.

Basically, there are two major problems with a merge: 1. Article collisions 2. Templates Article collisions are when two pages across the two wikis exist that have the same name. In these cases, the article being imported from the mergee into the merger must be renamed. The second issue is with the templates. There is the option to import templates along with the articles being imported, and there is also the option to, well, not import said templates (ahem).

Anyone can export from the mergee wiki, but only admins can import the articles into the target wiki. These functions are carried out on Special:Export (for anyone) and Special:Import (admins only).

"Manually" importing can be done via categories. For example, to test this out, I imported the entire category of "ShonenChicoBoy" from TBF to BFF which can be seen by selecting "Import log" under Special:Log.