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How to import content from Stack Exchange?
I have linked my Codidact account to my Stack Exchange account. This account has a Mi Yodeya account.
Maybe I misunderstand what the feature is supposed to do, but when I click on "Claim content" under "Claim Stack Exchange content" in my profile, I would expect the one question from Mi Yodeya to be copied here. Instead, I get the message:
There doesn't appear to be any of your content here.
What does this mean?
NB: when I linked the accounts together, the Mi Yodeya account was 'hidden' in Stack Exchange. Maybe that caused problems? I have unhidden the account now, but maybe this is not recognized? I'm just guessing here, it may not be relevant.
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| User | Comment | Date |
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| Keelan | (no comment) | Oct 29, 2021 at 20:15 |
Sorry about the confusion! We imported a small number of questions and answers from Mi Yodeya. If any of those had been written by you, then they would have been assigned to a "holding" account on import. When you connected your accounts and claimed the content, those posts would have been changed to be owned by you.
Early in Codidact's development, we expected to be doing a lot of data imports and so built this connection. Over time we've come to realize that bulk imports don't serve us well, and some communities that did them later deleted some of that content. Here on Judaism we only did selective imports; we had the idea of selectively importing more on request, but it turns out that the data-import scripts are kind of fragile so we haven't. (I think I still have an open feature request for a UI for one-shot imports.) We probably ought to make some changes to that section of the profile to make all this more clear, sorry!
Meanwhile, if you have a question you asked over there, you can re-ask it here -- it's your words and you don't need anyone's permission. If you have a good answer to a question someone else asked, and you'd like to bring it here (and, even better, improve it here), you can re-ask the question in your own words and then answer it.
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