FamilySearch Wiki:Standardizing Civil Registration Pages

Standardizing Civil Registration Pages

Purpose

We have created a standard of headings/categories of information that need to be on each Civil Registration page in the Wiki. We need to re-organize the content on the current civil registration pages into the categories from the template.

Contact

Amber Larsen

Task List

Instructions

Step 1 - Use a Sandbox

1. Sign up for one of the countries from the Task List. Go to that country's Civil Registration (or equivalent) page.

2. Click on the red link in that country's row on the task list to create the page. This will be the sandbox. In the respective sandbox page, insert all of the headings from the template.

3. Copy all of the code of the country's civil registration page and paste it into the same sandbox.

Step 2 - Rearrange the Information

4. Analyze all of the content from the country's civil registration page, and sort the content into the respective template heading it should go under (all this should be happening in your sandbox). - Each template heading has a description of the kind of content that should go under it.

Example: in the Argentina Civil Registration page, the content under the heading "Time Coverage" would be placed under the template heading "Coverage and Compliance". Its content matches the category of content that should be found under that particular heading of the template.
NOTE: DO NOT EDIT/DELETE ANY OF THE CONTENT YOU COPY FROM THE CIVIL REGISTRATION PAGE. We are simply to reorganize the information, not compromise.

5. As you reorganize the information to fit under respective template headings in your sandbox, keep all the content with whatever heading it comes with from the civil registration page, making it one sub-heading size smaller than the Template heading.

Example: in the Argentina Civil Registration page, all of the content under the heading "Locating Civil Registration Records", including the heading itself and all of its sub-headings and their content, would be copied and pasted under the template heading "How to Find the Records".

Code

The following are the headings that need to go in each sandbox page. You will sort the content from the civil registration page into these headings.

==How to Find the Records==

==Historical Background==

==Coverage and Compliance==

==Information Recorded in the Records==

==References==