FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Fixing MA Town Links on County Pages

Purpose

The purpose of this project is to fix the Massachusetts Town Links on the County Pages, and add or update the Brief History section by adding the Wikipedia page link

Contact

Angela.Sellers@FamilySearch.org

Task List

The tab of the Massachusetts Task List is labeled Part 33

Massachusetts Task List

Project Instructions

Project Overview

Part One

Pick one County from the task list and put your name in all of the Towns there

The first item to be fixed is updating or adding the Brief History section on the Town page
Next add the Wikipedia Massachusetts Town page link to the Brief History section of each Town on the Task list

Finish all of the Towns in the County on the Task List before going to Part Two

Part Two

Fix Cities and Town links on the County page

Part One

Remember to finish all towns in the county before going on to Part Two

Step One

Open these two links:

From the Massachusetts Task List, choose a Massachusetts County, then click on the first Town link to open the Town page
For these instructions Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts was chosen

From the Massachusetts, United States Genealogy link, open up the State page

Step Two

On the Massachusetts State page, scroll down to the Massachusetts Clickable Map and click on the County that goes with the Town you chose

For these instructions Barnstable County was clicked on
On the County page click on 1.6 Populated Places to get to the List of Cities and Towns

Step Three

Click on Barnstable in the Cities section

This will take you to the Wikipedia page for Barnstable
This page has all the information you will need to make the Wikipedia link

From the Task List Barnstable Town page that was opened, at the top of the Contents section, there should be a Brief History section

If there is not a Brief History section then one needs to be added

Step Four

Steps to adding the Brief History section

At the top of the Town page click on Edit Source
Copy and paste this WikiText below
Add === Brief History === after the the Map section and before the Town Section

=== Brief History ===

This is an example of what it would look like on the Edit Source page

Save the page in the Summary with

Project/* Brief History */ Adding and updating Brief History Section

This is an example of what the Contents section looks like with the Brief History section in it

Step Five

Steps to adding the Wikipedia link to the Massachusetts Town page

Go to the Brief History section and click on Edit Source
Copy and paste this WikiText below right after the Brief History section

*[URL NAME OF PAGE] at Wikipedia

From the Wikipedia page copy the URL and paste it where the URL is in the WikiText that is above
Then copy the name of the page and paste it after the URL

This is what the Wikipedia Link should look like on the Town page in the Brief History section:
Please do not copy

*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnstable,_Massachusetts Barnstable, Massachusetts] at Wikipedia

This is an example of what the WikiText looks like before saving the edit
Make sure there is a space between the URL and Name of Page

Saving the edit

Copy and paste this in the Summary

Project/* Brief History */ Adding and updating Brief History Section

This is an example of what your edit will look like in Show Preview

This is an example of what the Brief History section looks like with the Wikipedia link

Step Six

Please finish all of the Brief Histories for each Town before going on to Part Two
Keep these two links open:

Part Two

Fixing the Massachusetts Cities and Town Links on the County Page

This image is an example of the wrong links for the Cities and Towns
Notice a box and arrow after each of the Cities or Towns
These links need to be changed from the Wikipedia page to the Cities or Town WIKI page

This image shows the right link for Barnstable City and goes to the Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy page

Step One

Fixing the links

On the Massachusetts State page scroll down to the clickable map and choose a County

Barnstable County was chosen

Click on 1.6 Populated Places to get to the list of Cities and Towns

Click on Edit Source by Populated Places and keep this open
All of the links for the Cities and Towns need to be fixed which have the Wikipedia link

Copy and Paste the WikiText below over the Wikipedia link for the Town

*[[NAME OF TOWN PAGE|TOWN]]

From the Massachusetts Task List click on the Town you want to fix
Copy and Paste the name of the Town page into the WikiText

Please do not copy

*[[Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy|TOWN]]

Next copy the name of the city or town and paste it over TOWN part

Please do not copy

*[[Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy|Barnstable]]

This is what the Town Link should look like on the County page:
Notice there is no box or arrow

Step Two

Keep this Edit Source page open on the County page, Populated Places
From the Task List click on each Town to get the Page Name
Keep going down the Cities and Town links that have the Wikipedia link in them and replace

Step Three

Once all of the Cities and Towns are fixed, save the page with:

Project/*Populated Places*/ Fixing Cities and Town links

Once finished with the County go to the next County on the Task List
Start over with Part One in adding the Wikipedia link to the Brief Histories on the Town page