Urbepedia:Copying from Wikipedia

What should be copied

 * Anything really relevant that otherwise would have to be written here by someone (reinventing the wheel).

How to copy an article
Our technical people are working on a process similar to Transwiki, but that is not ready yet. (As soon as our article has been saved, you may add a link to it in the "See also" section of the Wikipedia article; but it may be better to wait until we have given it new material.)
 * (Create then) use a link from a page in this wiki to open an edit box for the correctly-named page (preferably exactly as Wikipedia names it)
 * In another window, go into edit mode on the Wikipedia article, copy the source code of the article (including all the templates (most of which should work here eventually if not already) and categories (most of which can or should also be categories here), and paste into the prepared edit box on this Wiki.
 * Add the acknowledgment template as below.

Add the "Acknowledgment" template notice
Before the first save, for a simple permanent acknowledgment and reference, add the template (where "Page name" is the title of the English Wikipedia article). Click "Show preview" to see how it all looks. The template should have produced something like this:

Further improvements

 * Edit our article, making it the best article possible. Edit Wikipedia links (e.g. Wikipedia:Article_name) when appropriate, so that they direct to the Wikipedia article if we don't have one of the same name and don't expect we ever will.  Click  Save page .

Merging articles from Wikipedia with our articles
Sometimes, people may start an article here when an article already exists on Wikipedia. This is how to merge:
 * 1) 	Compare the articles.
 * 2) 	Copy (from the Edit box) the sections from Wikipedia our articles lack.
 * 3) 	Paste the sections from the WikiPedia articles into our articles lacking those sections.
 * 4) Add the template, and do other improvements, as above.