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The moderator user box added to your user page will communicate to other wiki users that you are the moderator for the content. Add the box by typing {{User Moderator{{{2}}}{{{3}}}{{{4}}}{{{5}}}{{{6}}}{{{7}}}{{{8}}}{{{9}}}{{{10}}}{{{11}}}...}} to your user page. You might want to add the name of the localities and/or subjects you are moderating to your user page along with the user box.

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What is a moderator?

Moderators are volunteer administrators of the FamilySearch Wiki who encourage contribution within a subject area on the wiki, monitor its content, and guide contributors. If you are interested in becoming a moderator for a specific locality or research subject, please fill out this form to let us know of your interest.  If you have any further questions, please contact LaVera Parris at parrisl@familysearch.org.

Your request will be reviewed, and you will be contacted in a short period of time.

Responsibilities

The Moderator Job Description includes the following items:

• Build Community - Help build an active, vibrant community of contributors in a locality or topic.
  
• Recognize Contributions - Introduce themselves to new contributors to that locality, potentially recognizing those contributors whose work is particularly valuable.
• Help Resolve Problems - Generally a very minor part of these responsibilities, it will be important to respond when Wiki Guidelines and Policies are not observed by contributors, and assist when two or more contributors have an editing dispute by supporting the Dispute Resolution guidelines.
• For more detailed information on the responsibilities, see the Moderator Responsibilities page.

Who are the Moderators?

Our current moderators include:

Countries Austria ........................................................ SugdenHG British Columbia, Canada................. MDianeRogers Brazil and the A1gina principal Portuguese Wiki ................................Adriano Almeida Central America (Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama) ...........Dwsmith2 China.................................Twlisa and Chincm Czech Republic .........................................Pysnaks France .........................................................SugdenHG Germany ..........................................................Baerbel Italy Luxembourg Norway ....................Rcsteuart and/or SteuartRC Panama ................................................ Anelson Poland ..................................Pysnaks and Sonja Singapore ......................................................Chincm Sweden ......................................MorrisGF and Larson Switzerland ..........................................................Sonja Taiwan ...............................................................Chincm Wales ...........................................................Bromaelor

United States Alabama .......................................................Dwsmith2 Alaska Arizona ................................................James Tanner Arkansas California.............................................jamiemayhew Colorado Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Florida Georgia (state) Hawaii Idaho ..................................................................jenson1 Illinois ................................................................Lembley Indiana Iowa .................................................Familyjournals Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts:..........................................................Ldrew Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire ....................................Jabhammons New Jersey New Mexico .........................................James Tanner New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio..................................................Familyjournals Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina ........................................SavingStories South Dakota Tennessee ............................................................Evancol Texas.................................................................OldNews Utah......................................................James Tanner Vermont Virginia....................................................Heather Van Hise Washington ....................................................AdkinsWH West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming

Focused Research African American Research .................SavingStories Germans from Russia Indians of North America LDS Research ............................................cbb Tracing Immigrant Origins United States Military Records .....................McBrideLW

Historical Records

• WikiProject FamilySearch Records................................HoranDM chickitalie rashby3 robertmcall TimothyNB hardybe

Things you can do

The following items are things that a moderator can do to help improve the content in their area of expertise and also grow the community of volunteers authors and editors:

• Review and edit content as needed
• Populate the "Help Wanted" page for your locality
• Upload images
• Encourage the creation of new pages
• Encourage users to clarify ambiguous page titles
• Discuss, approve, interpret, and clarify policies
• Get good ideas from other moderators and areas of the wiki and assist contributors in your area to implement them
• Communicate important issues to other contributors in your subject area
• Organize and lead WikiProjects
• Identify and invite knowledgeable people to help with the wiki

See also

• FamilySearch Wiki:Moderator/Getting Started