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Allow me to make a counter-proposal.

**Don't import any content wholesale, but be open to the idea of importing specific questions and their answers.**

*Why in the world do it that way, you ask?*

Even though it's only been a few days, Judaism Codidact already has 14 questions, only three of which are unanswered at this point and a few have more than one answer. I don't know to what extent that content is duplicated from Mi Yodeya, but it seems pretty clear to me that there's enough questions to be asked to get the site started.

Certainly judging by the votes both on [the Judaism Codidact proposal](https://meta.codidact.com/q/276280) and the Mi Yodeya SE Meta post referenced from there, there appears to be enthusiasm among the Mi Yodeya community about having another place to ask questions, answer questions, and interact with others, so there's *people* here who are presumably willing to contribute time and content.

I was in favor of importing content from Writing SE to seed the [Writing Codidact](https://writing.codidact.com/) site, and later similarly (but more selectively, in part because its scope was different) for populating [Scientific Speculation](https://scientific-speculation.codidact.com/) from Worldbuilding SE. In retrospect, especially with regards to Writing, I'm not sure that was such a good idea, at least the way it was done. Writing has always been a low-traffic site, and it's hard to *differentiate* either site when most of the content duplicates what's already available on a more established platform. To me, the fact that it didn't take all that long before we got a feature request for a way to [see only content that has been created on Codidact](https://meta.codidact.com/q/276413) is another hint that merely importing already-existing content isn't always a good idea.

On the flip side, an empty Q&A site (or one with just a few questions, or with questions asked and answered by the same users) can easily look deserted. The folks behind the [Electrical Engineering Codidact](https://electrical.codidact.com/) proposal recognized this from the beginning and choose instead to initially populate the site with brand new questions and answers, and had a plan for how to, once it was populated with seed Q&A, bring in additional subject matter experts and spread the word. Time will tell how that works out in practice.

I'm not saying you *have to* start from scratch. I would suggest that you consider it seriously as *one option*.

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If at some later point the situation changes, and it looks like Mi Yodeya may be at risk of being shut down (either as just one site, or because Stack Exchange itself falters), nothing prevents importing content *then* in order to preserve it in a user-friendly fashion, possibly into a separate category. Stack Exchange data dumps are available [at the Internet Archive](https://archive.org/download/stackexchange), so even if Stack Exchange closed up shop with absolutely no warning or put everything that they control behind a paywall, most of the content could still be salvaged.