Help:How to import an article from Wikipedia

From AIDS Wiki

Here are the steps to import an article from Wikipedia. Please note that these steps only apply to articles imported from the English Wikipedia. (Help sections for other types of article importing may be added at a later time.)

General guidelines to consider before importing articles

1. Try to import articles which have received a fair amount of attention and which have reached some reasonably stable version. Try to avoid articles which are currently in a state where a lot of information is being added to them. Some judgment is required here, as many important topics related to AIDS dissent may have received little if any attention at the mainstream Wikipedia. (If you're interested, look at the history page for John Lauritsen at the English Wikipedia.)
2. Try to import articles which are more central to topics of interest to AIDS Wiki. For instance, the article on David Ho is an automatic shoe-in for importing, but it would probably be a bad idea to import every article on an obscure chemistry or biology topic which only appears a few times. In the latter case, a simple external link to the Wikipedia article is probably more appropriate. Again, good judgment is required.
3. Try to import articles which will really add to AIDS Wiki. In other words, if you're wondering whether to import an article, think for a moment about it. If you have trouble convincing yourself it's worth importing, it's probably better not to for the moment. If it's really important, someone else will likely consider it later.
4. Try to not just focus on importing articles! We need to generate our own content in tandem with importing content.

How to import an article

1. Go to the webpage for the article at Wikipedia. For example, to import the article on David Ho, go to "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ho". (Don't try to import the article on David Ho right now; it's already imported.)
2. Click on "edit this page". Copy the entire text of the article.
3. In another tab (window), go to the link "http://www.reviewingaids.org/awiki/index.php/David_Ho". Here, of course, replace "David Ho" with what you want the name of the article on the AIDS Wiki to be. In almost all cases, this will be identical, but not always. (See AIDS Quilt.) You can also do a search for the topic and click on the red link at the top of the page if the article does not exist.
4. Click on "edit this page" and paste the article in the textspace.
5. Type "imported from wikipedia" into the summary bar and click "Save page".
6. Go back to editing by clicking "edit this page" again. Now, take all the wikipedia-specific templates and categories out.
7. At the bottom of the article, double space and include a credit template. This process involves several steps. Type the following: {{credit|pagetitle=David_Ho|id=30842095|date=8 Jan 2006}} Here's how you get the proper information:
   1. Click on Wikipedia citation search page. Type the name of the article you wish to import ("pagetitle") and hit enter. A page with information appears.
   2. The "id" number is the "Page Version ID".
   3. The "date" is "Date retreived". (This is the date you are actually importing the article, not the date of the last revision to the article at Wikipedia.)
8. Resave (if you wish), and then work on the images in the article, if any appear. For each image, change the name (if you wish) to the name you want the image file at the AIDS Wiki to have, and then resave. You now have to import each image from Wikipedia by following the steps given at the link.
9. You should now go through and do basic clean-up work:
   1. Remove obvious POV and errors.
   2. For each link, change to an external Wikipedia link or leave as an internal (possibly red) link.
   3. Possibly reorganise the content of the article.
   4. Wikify: Add new links, categories, templates, content, footnotes, references, and/or commentary.