FamilySearch Wiki:Community Contributor Training Sessions
How to Become a Wiki Editor
***Wiki Administration is currently standardizing Wiki pages and patrolling all edits by FamilySearch staff and community members. Due to the lack of necessary staff and editors' non-compliance to Wiki standards, the Wiki Executive Council has suspended granting editing rights to community members and current FamilySearch staff at this time. Please send all new content and corrections to the Submit Content or Report a Problem form***
Table 1 - Required Training
Watching each training session and taking each corresponding assessment quiz is required for sessions 1 through 10.
| Training Sessions - Wiki Contributors | Length
of Video |
Link to
Video |
Link to
Handout |
Link to
Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Required | ||||
| Intro to Training Sessions - Community Members | 1:54 | Link | None | None |
| 1 - FS Research Wiki Introduction & FAQs | 6:28 | Link | Link | Link |
| 2 - Ways to Contribute | 6:30 | Link | Link | Link |
| 3 - Policies and Procedures | 9:18 | Link | Link | Link |
| 4 - User Pages, VisualEditor & Wikitext | 8:01 | Link | Link | Link |
| 5 - Wiki Page navigation Tabs | 8:09 | Link | Link | Link |
| 6 - User's Personal Tools | 3:14 | Link | Link | Link |
| 7a* - Basic Editing Functions - VisualEditor | 9:21 | Link | Link | Link |
| 7b* - Basic Editing Functions - Wikitext | 11:46 | Link | Link | Link |
| 8 - Elements of a Wiki Page | 15:36 | Link | Link | Link |
| 9 - Grammar and Manual of Style | 6:48 | Link | Link | Link |
| 10 - Content Allowed in the Wiki | 13:59 | Link | Link | Link |
*Watch either session 7a or 7b.
Table 2 - Editing Lessons for VisualEditor and Wikitext Code
The following training sessions are optional. Wiki Administration may request the completion of select additional trainings based on the user's editing projects.
| Editing Training sessions | Length
of Video |
Link to
Video |
Link to
Handout |
Link to
Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VisualEditor - Sessions | ||||
| 11a - Internal and External Links | 9:28 | Link | Link | Link |
| 15a - Adding Repositories | 8:17 | Link | Link | Link |
| Wikitext - Sessions | ||||
| 11b - Internal & External Links | 19:55 | Link | Link | Link |
| 12 - Formatting Database Links | 16:01 | Link | Link | Link |
| 13 - Formatting Books | 23:33 | Link | Link | Link |
| 14 - Reference and Footnote Citations | 9:58 | Link | Link | Link |
| 15b - Adding Repositories | 6:44 | Link | Link | Link |
Table 3 - Submitting Images
The following training is optional. However, any user wishing to submit an image to the Wiki must take the following training.
| Uploading Images | Length of Video |
Link to Video |
Link to Handout |
Link to Quiz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contributor Training | ||||
| 17 - Submitting Images | 9:21 | Link | Link | Link |