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==== Ideas for your user page ==== | ==== Ideas for your user page ==== | ||
A user page is a great place to tell a bit about yourself and link to wiki articles and other sites you find helpful. There are no requirements about what user pages must contain -- they exist to help users -- but | A user page is a great place to tell a bit about yourself and link to wiki articles and other sites you find helpful. There are no requirements about what user pages must contain -- they exist to help users -- but here are some ideas of what you might add: | ||
*A short Personal Section telling about yourself. | *A short Personal Section telling about yourself. | ||
*A section about your personal genealogical projects. | *A section about your personal genealogical projects. | ||
*Links to pages you moderate. | *[[Help:Create an internal link|Links] to pages you moderate. | ||
*Links to [[Help:Edit and Contribute|Help pages]] you use often. | *Links to [[Help:Edit and Contribute|Help pages]] you use often. | ||
*A section (a user box) about any genealogical associations with which you are affiliated, and your | *A section (a user box) about any genealogical associations with which you are affiliated, and your responsibilities an activities there. | ||
*A section that suggests the types of improvements that are still needed on pages within the topic area you oversee. (This, along with | *A section that suggests the types of improvements that are still needed on pages within the topic area you oversee. (This, along with a [[How to Run or Manage a Wiki Project|project]] page is a good way to make a "call to action" that can get others working on your projects!) | ||
*It's fun to add User Boxes to your user page. | *It's fun to add [[FamilySearch Wiki:Userboxes|User Boxes]] to your user page. After accessing your user page, click the "Edit" box and add a Moderator Box to your page by doing the following: <u>Type two left curly brackets ({) followed by the words: User Moderator and type in two right curly brackets (})</u>. This will create a User Moderator box on your page. Then go to the bottom of the page and identify your edit as an addition of a User Box and click "Save page". If you wish to delete the box, simply go into Edit and delete the text you typed in before saving page again. | ||
*To learn more about user pages, see [[Help:User page|Help:User page]] and [[FamilySearch Wiki:User page|FamilySearch Wiki:User page]]. To see a good example of a user page, see [[User:Cottrells|User:Cottrells]]. <br> | *To learn more about user pages, see [[Help:User page|Help:User page]] and [[FamilySearch Wiki:User page|FamilySearch Wiki:User page]]. To see a good example of a user page, see [[User:Cottrells|User:Cottrells]]. <br> | ||
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