As the creator of the medals, Dser has the authority to place the image on his blog if he hasn't earned it yet, but not eligible to place them on his userpage if he hasn't earned them.
The Medals System was finally created as of July 20, 2010.
Article medals[]
Gold medal
To obtain an article medal, a user must have contributed a certain amount of times.
Red= 10 contributions
Green= 20 contributions
Bronze= 40 contributions
Silver=80 contributions
Gold=300 contributions
Upload medals[]
Gold medal
To obtain an upload medal, a user must have uploaded a certain amount of images or sound files.
Red= 5 uploads
Green= 10 uploads
Bronze=20 uploads
Silver= 40 uploads
Gold= 100 uploads
Cancelled new medal[]
Red medal
The new medals were going to be made, but were cancelled, due to possibility of running out of articles on the wiki. The upload medal was kept, because there are sometimes multiple images to one article.
Due to the cancel of the new medal, the red medal displayed above can be displayed anywhere.
Userbox medals[]
Gold medal
As of August 22, 2010, the Userbox medals were added to Plantspedia. In order for one to obtain these, you must have a given number of userboxes.
Red= 1 userbox
Green= 2 userboxes
Bronze= 4 userboxes
Silver= 8 userboxes
Gold= 20 userboxes
The original triangle design that was going to be used for the New medal was used for this medal instead.
Language medals[]
Red medal
When interwiki language links start to work, the language medal will be issued. To obtain these medals, a user will have to make an article on a separate Plantspedia.