This is a horrible idea. Among other things, the import is already broken enough in that it doesn't clearly store anywhere the information of where the revisions come from, and this proposal would break it completely by making even the log useless.
In general, if what you want is more flexibility for imports and import configuration, what you're looking for is either bug 26992 or importupload ([[m:Importer]]).

The current situation isn't efficient at all. People have to copy/paste templates and their dependencies, creating forks that will never merge back their changes, not to mention the extra effort it will take to respect legal issues. Importing require priviliged account, while this proposal would make that problem vanish too.

Importing require priviliged account, while this proposal would make that problem vanish too.

This report is not about changing permissions. Only about about import sources.

That's a side effect: to import source you need an account with the relevant granted priviges.

That's a side effect: to import source you need an account with the relevant granted priviges.

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but Special:Import always requires privileges, whether the desired wiki is defined as import source or not.

If your aim is to reduce the need of the "importupload" permission without requiring server-side configuration changes, what you're looking for is T16264 or T17583.

What is suggested, as I understand it, is that importation is not the way to go.

For example, one may one to be able to use existing templates/modules in an other trusted wiki instance, which may have a lot of decencies. The current situation, as far as I know, force to copy each article manually. This is inefficient and create derived versions whose evolution will hardly synchronize.

Ability to call remote trusted template/modules would be a better situation. And having a central repository for that kind of things would be even better.

Please let me know if I can bring more relevant information.

In T18568#1125639, @Psychoslave wrote:

Ability to call remote trusted template/modules would be a better situation. And having a central repository for that kind of things would be even better.

That is covered by T6547: Support crosswiki template inclusion (transclusion => interwiki templates, etc.).

Ok, thank you for the hint.