FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProjects Seeking Contributors

This is a list of the WikiProject that are currently active and working on content. The projects are always seeking contributors, so feel free to join a group and have fun!

Creating New Projects

If you would like to create a new project, following the naming conventions for WikiProjects to help make your project easy to find:

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

For more details about naming new WikiProject pages, see FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages

FamilySearch Projects

Historical Records Wiki Pages

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

United States Projects

Idaho

• Idaho -- adding content to the county pages of Idaho

Indians of North America Project

• Indians of North America

Southern US Rural Records Project

• Rural Records of the Southern United States

US Vital Records Project

• FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. Vital Records

Canada Projects

• Nothing right now

South America Projects

• 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

• 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

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 Laralee

Copy Old FamilySearch Content

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