FamilySearch Wiki:Contributing to the Wiki: Difference between revisions

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Content on the Wiki

The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online genealogical guide that lists websites, explains records, gives research strategies, and suggests other resources to help you find your ancestors from countries around the world.

Share your knowledge

Submit Content or Report a Problem on the Wiki

Use the link below to fill out a form to submit information to the Wiki. Examples of information includes:

New online database containing genealogical information
Link to a genealogical society or library for a county
Report any broken links or errors you see in the Wiki
List of resources found in an archive or library
Report inaccurate historical or geographical information
Report a typo

*Form to Submit Content or Report a Problem

Editing the Wiki

***Wiki Administration is currently standardizing Wiki pages and patrolling all edits by FamilySearch staff and community members. Due to the lack of necessary staff and editors' non-compliance to Wiki standards, the Wiki Executive Council has suspended granting editing rights to community members and current FamilySearch staff at this time. For adding content about an affiliate library on a Wiki page, please send all new content and corrections to the Submit Content or Report a Problem form. ***

More Information About Editing the Wiki

Wiki University

The Wiki University contains a series of lessons on how to edit the Wiki using either VisualEditor, a simplified way to edit the Wiki or Wikitext, using simplified html code.

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-==Become a FamilySearch Research Wiki Contributor==
+==Content on the Wiki==
-The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online genealogical guide that lists websites, explains records, gives research strategies, and suggests other resources to help you find your ancestors from countries around the world. The Research Wiki is a community project, and we welcome all of those interested in sharing their genealogical knowledge to add to the Wiki.
+The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a free, online genealogical guide that lists websites, explains records, gives research strategies, and suggests other resources to help you find your ancestors from countries around the world.
 ==Share your knowledge==
-You can help us by adding content to the Research Wiki to help others.  This can be done through fixing broken URLs, adding content about a record type, listing new resources available or giving strategies for locating records. <br>
+=== Submit Content or Report a Problem on the Wiki===
-<br>There are different ways you can add this information:
+Use the link below to fill out a form to submit information to the Wiki. Examples of information includes:
+*New online database containing genealogical information
+*Link to a genealogical society or library for a county
+*Report any broken links or errors you see in the Wiki
+*List of resources found in an archive or library
+*Report inaccurate historical or geographical information
+*Report a typo
+<br>
+ <span style="font-size:140%">*[https://forms.office.com/r/B6591zBP78 '''Form to Submit Content or Report a Problem''']</span>
-===Submit Wiki Content===
+==Editing the Wiki==
-If you would like to submit a resource, URL, or even a paragraph on a topic in the Research Wiki, you can use our [[FamilySearch Wiki:Content Submission Form|online form]].  A volunteer will add the information to the Research Wiki in the appropriate place.
+<font color="red">'''***Wiki Administration is currently standardizing Wiki pages and patrolling all edits by FamilySearch staff and community members. Due to the lack of necessary staff and editors' non-compliance to Wiki standards, the Wiki Executive Council has suspended granting editing rights to community members and current FamilySearch staff at this time. For adding content about an affiliate library on a Wiki page, please send all new content and corrections to the [https://forms.office.com/r/B6591zBP78 Submit Content or Report a Problem form]. '''***</font>
-===Report a Problem===
-Found some incorrect information on the Wiki? You can either [[FamilySearch:Contributing to the Wiki#Edit Directly to the Wiki|edit the Wiki]] yourself as listed below or [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfhFHS21uSFf6MjdS17ApKW03CQtFcXgmeNdRRwBYNMy9YSPA/viewform?c=0&w=1 fill out this form]. A Wiki volunteer will fix the information for you.
-===Edit Directly to the Wiki===
-'''''<font color="red">***UPDATE*** As of February 1, 2024, only FamilySearch Center personnel and FamilySearch affiliate library personnel will receive editing rights on the English Wiki. All other requests will be suspended until new training can be provided. Training will be available coming summer 2024. Until that time, community members who wish to add or change something on Wiki pages, can use the [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe58tpSxtxYjB5NSCXbCKLobLBrpvsrT0-Jjz2tdG2vVN2njQ/viewform Submit Wiki Content/Report a problem form].  For more information, see the Wiki page, [[Help:Wiki Roles of Editor and Pagecreator|Wiki Roles of Editor and Pagecreator]].</font>''''' <br><br>
 ==More Information About Editing the Wiki==
-There are many Wiki Help articles teaching you how to edit the Wiki:
-*[[Help:Editing a Page|Edit a Wiki Page]]
-*[[Help:VisualEditor|Editing a Wiki Page using VisualEditor]]
-*[[Help:Links|Adding Website Links]]
-*[[Help:Editing the Wiki|More editing wiki articles]]
-*[[Help:Guiding Principles and Policies|Wiki Guiding Principles and Policies]]
 ===Wiki University===
 The [[Help:Wiki_University_Tutorial|Wiki University]] contains a series of lessons on how to edit the Wiki using either [[Help:Wiki University VisualEditor -- Tutorial|VisualEditor]], a simplified way to edit the Wiki or [[Help:Wiki University Wikitext--Tutorial|Wikitext]], using simplified html code.
-[[Category:Wiki Help]]
+[[Category:Wiki Help]][[Category:Wiki Administration]]