FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProjects Seeking Contributors: Difference between revisions

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Projects seeking contributors

Want to join a group and work together on a project? Come to a Live Community Meeting!

FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages In order to make project pages easier to find, follow the standardized project naming conventions:

The name of the project should begin with the word "FamilySearch Wiki" and followed by a colon :
After the colon type the word "WikiProject"
The type the name of the project. Example: FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah
Be sure to add the new project to the list below, under the subject heading that is related to the new project:

FamilySearch Projects[edit | edit source]

Historical Records Wiki Pages[edit | edit source]

FamilySearch Records -- add content to articles describing collections on FamilySearch Historical Records

United States Projects[edit | edit source]

Idaho[edit | edit source]

Idaho -- adding content to the county pages of Idaho

Canada Projects[edit | edit source]

Nothing right now

South America Projects[edit | edit source]

Nothing right now

Julian and Gregorian calendars is a stub that needs fleshing in.
The Barbour Collection is a small article that needs lots of improvement!

Europe Projects[edit | edit source]

Sweden
Ireland Court Records
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.
WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives needs volunteers to link wiki pages to digitized county and state histories on the BYU Family History Archives site.
Professional Genealogists, a project to help professional genealogical researchers market their services for free on their user pages.
Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki

The England Barn Raising project has launched! Tasks await English experts, wiki experts, and volunteers willing to help with routine editing. Anyone willing to help can sign up now.

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 Maryland Portal.

Denmark has several individual projects that need volunteers to help with expanding and improving content about Danish research.

Link wiki articles mentioning the Periodical Source Index to the main PERSI article.

Maintenance Projects[edit | edit source]

Portals to un-portals[edit | edit source]

Portals to un-portal pages All portal pages on the wiki need to be converted to un-portal pages. Questions can be directed to Laralee

Copy Old FamilySearch Content[edit | edit source]

Copying Research Guidance and Help Content from FamilySearch.org into the Wiki.

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 Want to join a group and work together on a project? Come to a Live [[Live User Group Meetings|Community Meeting]]!
-(Add new projects at the top of this list.)
+[[FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages|FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages]] In order to make project pages easier to find, follow the standardized project naming conventions:
+#The name of the project should begin with the word "FamilySearch Wiki" and followed by a colon :
+#After the colon type the word "WikiProject"
+#The type the name of the project. Example: FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah
+#Be sure to add the new project to the list below, under the subject heading that is related to the new project:
+== FamilySearch Projects ==
+=== Historical Records Wiki Pages ===
 *[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject FamilySearch Records|FamilySearch Records]] -- add content to articles describing collections on FamilySearch Historical Records
+== United States Projects ==
+=== Idaho ===
 *[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Idaho|Idaho]] -- adding content to the county pages of Idaho
-*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Wikiproject portals to un-portals|Portals to un-portal pages]] All portal pages on the wiki need to be converted to un-portal pages. Questions can be directed to [[User talk:Laraleepn|Laralee]]
+=== Indians of North America Project ===
+*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Indians of North America|Indians of North America]]
+=== Southern US Rural Records Project ===
+*[[FamilySearch WikiProject:Rural Records of the Southern United States|Rural Records of the Southern United States]]
+=== US Vital Records Project ===
+*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. Vital Records|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. Vital Records]]
+== Canada Projects ==
+*Nothing right now
+== South America Projects ==
+*Nothing right now
 *[[Julian and Gregorian Calendars|Julian and Gregorian calendars]] is a stub that needs fleshing in.
 *The [[Barbour Collection]] is a small article that needs lots of improvement!
-*[[FamilySearch WikiProject:Rural Records of the Southern United States|Rural Records of the Southern United States]]&nbsp;&nbsp;
-*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Indians of North America|Indians of North America]]
+== Europe Projects ==
 *[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Sweden|Sweden]]
 *[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Ireland Court Records|Ireland Court Records]]
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 *[[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:WikiProject Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki|Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki]]
-*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. Vital Records|FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. Vital Records]]
-*[[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.
 *The [[England Barn Raising Tasks|England Barn Raising]] project has launched! Tasks await English experts, wiki experts, and volunteers willing to help with routine editing. Anyone willing to help can sign up now.
-*[[Task to Copy Research Guidance and Help Content|Copying Research Guidance and Help Content]] from FamilySearch.org into the Wiki.
 *[[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 [[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]].
+== Maintenance Projects ==
+=== Portals to un-portals ===
+:[[FamilySearch Wiki:Wikiproject portals to un-portals|Portals to un-portal pages]] All portal pages on the wiki need to be converted to un-portal pages. Questions can be directed to [[User talk:Laraleepn|Laralee]]
+=== Copy Old FamilySearch Content ===
+:[[Task to Copy Research Guidance and Help Content|Copying Research Guidance and Help Content]] from FamilySearch.org into the Wiki.
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