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== Welcome!  ==

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<br>We invite you to find your niche and connect with other wiki users and contributors. Learn how to improve the wiki and make valuable contributions in the [[Help:Edit and Contribute|Contributor's Corner]], ask your questions in the [http://forums.familysearch.org/en/ Forums] or find a friend in [http://forums.familysearch.org/en/group.php Social Groups]. Check out the ongoing discussion attached to wiki pages of interest and join in!

 

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'''Community Bulletin Board'''

 

 

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Site Design Ideas|Your vote counts!]] Do you like these possible site changes on the [[FamilySearch Wiki:Site Design Ideas|Site Design Ideas]] page? We are ready to make some of these changes soon.  

*[[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Format for Citing and Linking to Works in FHLC, Worldcat (OCLC)#Linking_to_works_in_the_FHLC|Linking to works in the Family History Library Catalog]]

*[[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Format for Citing and Linking to Works in FHLC, Worldcat (OCLC)#Replace_.22Family_History_Library.22_with_.22FHL.22_in_references|Replacing "Family History Library" with "FHL" in references]]

*[[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Format for Citing and Linking to Works in FHLC, Worldcat (OCLC)#Referencing_OCLC.2FWorldcat_works|Referencing OCLC/Worldcat works]]

*[[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Format for Citing and Linking to Works in FHLC, Worldcat (OCLC)#Format_for_OCLC_and_FHLC_works|Format for OCLC and FHLC references]]

*[[Talk:Create an external link#Creating_Numerous.2C_Repetitive_Links|Creating Numerous, Repetitive External Links]] and [[Talk:Create an internal link#Creating_Numerous.2C_Repetitive_Links|Creating Numerous, Repetitive Internal Links]]

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style|Manual of Style]]

*There is an ongoing discussion about the development of record-type articles. The two discussion points include: (1) The headings that should be used in record-type articles, and (2) The pros and cons of having long article or short articles with multiple links between them. This discussion is taking place within the context of the [[Maryland Newspapers|Maryland Newspapers]] article. Join the discussion on the talk page at: [[Talk:Maryland Newspapers|Talk:Maryland Newspapers]].  

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages|Naming Conventions for Project Pages]]. People are having trouble finding project pages because we're naming them so many different ways and putting them in multiple namespaces. Please help us figure out what to do by adding to the [[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Naming Conventions for Project Pages|discussion page]].

 

 

(Add new projects at the top of this list.)  

 

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Rural Records of Mid-Southern United States|Rural Records of Mid-Southern United States]]

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Indians of North America|Indians of North America]]

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Sweden|Sweden]]

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Welcoming committee]] needs volunteers to welcome new contributors and help them get started in various ways. Also to help develop the guidance for committee members.  

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Record Search|Linking to Record Search]] needs volunteers to link wiki pages to new indexes and digitized records in FamilySearch [http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html# Record Search].  

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives|WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives]] needs volunteers to link wiki pages to digitized county and state histories on the [http://www.lib.byu.edu/fhc/index.php BYU Family History Archives] site.

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Professional Genealogists|Professional Genealogists]], a project to help professional genealogical researchers market their services for free on their user pages.  

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages|FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages]] In order to make project pages easier to find, we need to the community to propose and discuss the standardization of project naming conventions and decide which namespace to put project pages in.

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Maryland News and Events|WikiProject Maryland News and Events]] needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events relating to Maryland and link to them from the News and Events section of the [[Portal:Maryland|Maryland Portal]].

*[[FamilySearch Wikiproject: Danish Articles Needing Revision|Denmark]] has several individual projects that need volunteers to help with expanding and improving content about Danish research.  

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Wikiproject Linking Wiki Articles Mentioning the Periodical Source Index to the Main PERSI Article|Link wiki articles mentioning the Periodical Source Index to the main PERSI article]].

 

'''Creating new articles'''

 

*FamilySearch Wiki is "international" so any article with a general title such as "The Census" should really cover the entire globe! If you are writing an article which applies to one country only, then that should be made clear in the title of the article, such as ''The Census in England'' or ''England Census‎'' etc..  

*To make your article easier to find by others, make sure you insert a Category at the end of the article, e.g. [[:Category:Scotland|Scotland]].

 

 

*[[List of changes to the Research Wiki skin|List of Changes to the Research Wiki Skin]]

 

 

[[Talk:Community Portal|Submit]] an article that needs a group effort to improve and expand the content. Every month, beginning January 2009, a new article will be featured here for collaborative improvement.  

 

*The [[Barbour Collection]] is a small article that needs lots of improvement!

*The Research Wiki has several entries in the [[A genealogical glossary terms|Glossary]] about the Julian and Gregorian calendars (see Double-dating; Julian; and Gregorian entries). Unfortunately, an article about the usage of the [[Julian and Gregorian Calendars]] in family history research does not exist. There are many websites related to the history of the calendars and also a site that helps with converting dates to a variety of other calendars (See [http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/calendar/ Calendar Converter]). In addition, there are several other articles within the Wiki that refer to either the Julian or Gregorian calendars. Each of these article could eventually be linked to this new page! If interested, please join in a community effort to write this new article for the FamilySearch Research Wiki!

 

'''Guidelines, Help, and Resources'''

 

*[[Running a Barn Raising|How to Run or Manage a WikiProject]]

*[[FamilySearch wiki user group meeting|FamilySearch Wiki User Group]] meets weekly online to discuss various aspects of contributing to the wiki.  

 

 

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_portal Wikipedia:Community portal] yields ideas that can help this page evolve.  

*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipedia:WikiProject] is a nice, simple way to list many projects.