FamilySearch Wiki:Fixing Classic FamilySearch.org Links: Difference between revisions

== Finding and reviewing pages with broken links to the old FamilySearch.org  ==

::#Go to the [[FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance|Wiki Maintenance]] page  

::#Click on "How to" after "Dead Links"  

::#Go down to #8 and click "Pages with Broken Links"  

::#Select a page you will work on  

::#Sign your name to the "By whom" column (three tildes) in the first spot and add that you will do the entire page (if you can't do the entire page, you'll have to sign your name to each spot as you do them.)  

::#Right click on the link of the page you will work on and open it up in a new window

::#'''Review '''the '''external '''links, one section at a time (external links are those links with the box/arrow after them)  

::##Hold your mouse over the URL and look for links in one of these formats  

::###[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/....... http://www.familysearch.org/eng/.......] (note the "Eng" portion specifically)  

::###[http://webview/supermainframeset.asp... http://webview/supermainframeset.asp...]  

::###[http://pilot.familysearch.org/ http://pilot.familysearch.org]  

::###[http://search.labs.familysearch.org/ http://search.labs.familysearch.org]  

::###Make note of the links you find in these formats. They '''MUST''' be changed.  

::###The "Eng" link will usually show the old blue header/footer of familysearch.org. However, if it goes to the pastel colored page, the link still needs to be changed.  

::##After you mouse over the link, '''right click''' and open it up in a new tab.  

::##Evaluate the pages that you opened up.  

::###Look for websites that are no longer what it should be (404 error, webpage not found error, etc.), that is a broken link.  

::#'''Evaluate the page '''where that link goes. Which one does it go to? Read through the text around the link to see what the author is trying to do. (Ctrl+Click on the link to go to the spot in the document below.