Animporter is a user withimport rights, generally speaking.

On Wikimedia wikis, there are two kinds of importers:

• transwiki importers can perform onlytranswiki import (import permission);^[1]
• importers can perform both transwiki andupload import (import andimportupload permissions).^[2]

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

These flags are enabled on all wikis,^[3] but can be assigned only by stewards after a request ondedicated page (especially theimport flag which includes theimportupload right which isparticularly 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).

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

• User groups