Copy pages from Wikipedia

  • MUST USE FIREFOX TO DO THIS!!
  • Find missing plants on plants.am
  • go to the wikipedia export page (see bookmarks under plants.am).
  • Copy paste page name into export window,
  • then copy paste information from export window to plants.am new page but only text
  • after: "preserve">
  • before: </text>
  • click on save.

Find missing pictures on existing pages of plants.am

  • log in to plants.am
  • open same named page on wikipedia (by copying and pasting the name of the page into the wikipedia search and clicking go)
  • right click on picture needed on plants.am and open in new window, then click on upload
  • right click on photo on wikipedia that you want, and click on open in new window
  • right click on photo on wikipedia IN new window, and click save picture as...
  • remove initial part of filename BEFORE saving IF it says 240px- (or some other number followed by px-)
  • now save in desktop/plants.am folder
  • in plants.am browse in the new file you just saved in the upload window
  • now in the wikipedia picture page, click on "description page" and it will take you to wikimedia page for the photo.
  • copy the window address from wikimedia to plants.am
  • click on "edit" tab in wikimedia and copy/paste all the text to plants.am
  • click on upload
  • Shnorhavor! You uploaded 1 photo!

Pages with plant lists needing to be added

Pages needing photos added:

I've got a question: what should be done if there's no "description page" mentioned above?