oversight
8,840
edits
FamilySearch Community Tools: Difference between revisions
FamilySearch Community Tools (view source)
Revision as of 01:30, 11 February 2011
, 11 February 2011no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 72: | Line 72: | ||
*Currently, all inter-wiki links to other languages exist at the bottom of the page. If you do not see a link to another language, then you know that the page has not been translated. | *Currently, all inter-wiki links to other languages exist at the bottom of the page. If you do not see a link to another language, then you know that the page has not been translated. | ||
*Note that the Spanish wiki does not yet have the inter-wiki links to the English wiki. | *Note that the Spanish wiki does not yet have the inter-wiki links to the English wiki. | ||
== Finding Your Way Around the Wiki == | |||
1. Basic Navigation: | |||
a. Views | |||
b. Toolbox | |||
c. Community (the hidden feature!) | |||
d. Personal tools | |||
2. Keyword searches | |||
a. Basic | |||
b. Advanced | |||
3. Browse by country | |||
4. Browse by topic (the categories) | |||
5. Navigational boxes | |||
6. Clickable maps | |||
7. Disambiguation pages | |||
8. “What links here” on every page | |||
== Getting Help == | |||
1. The Wiki Basics | |||
a. Tour - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:Tour | |||
b. Overview - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:Wiki_Overview | |||
2. Wiki Help with Editing | |||
a. Help: Edit and Contribute - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:Edit_and_Contribute | |||
3. Wiki How-to | |||
4. The video tutorials - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:How_To_Demonstrations | |||
a. Basic Search | |||
b. Advanced Search | |||
c. Basic Editing | |||
d. Creating Links | |||
e. Adding Images | |||
f. Creating a New Page | |||
5. The Wiki Forums | |||
6. The FamilySearch Help | |||
7. The FamilySearch YouTube channel has a new series of getting started videos that will help with getting started in your family history research - | |||
== Authoring in the Wiki == | |||
1. Connect with the community through your own user page. See examples: | |||
a. | |||
2. If you add some basic content to your user page you will learn: | |||
a. How to submit images for approval | |||
b. How to add a photo to a wiki page | |||
c. How to create headings on a wiki page | |||
d. How to use templates | |||
e. How to create internal wiki links | |||
f. How to create external wiki links | |||
3. Content ideas for your user page: | |||
a. Add a photo | |||
b. Add a short biography | |||
c. Add user boxes (share more about yourself through these visual badges) | |||
i. https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:Userbox | |||
ii. https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Userboxes | |||
d. Add links to the WikiProjects you are working on | |||
e. Add links to your Wiki Sub-Pages | |||
i. | |||
f. Your own pedigree chart | |||
4. Related articles | |||
a. Help: User page - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:User_page | |||
b. FamilySearch Wiki: User page – https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:User_page | |||
c. FamlySearch Wiki: Talk page guidelines https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Talk_page_guidelines | |||
d. | |||