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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 help encourage contribution within a subject area on the wiki, monitor its content, and guide others as they contribute. If you are interested in being a moderator for a specific locality or research subject, please fill out this form to let us know of your interest.

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 recognize contributors for great work
  
• Help Resolve Problems - Generally a very minor part of these responsibilities, it will be important to respond when Wiki Guidelines and Policies are broken by contributors, and help when two or more contributors are in 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 is SugdenHG British Columbia, Canada is User:MDianeRogers China is Twlisa and Chincm Czech Republic is Pysnaks France is SugdenHG Germany is Baerbel Panama is Anelson Italy Luxembourg  Norway is Rcsteuart and/or SteuartRC Poland is Pysnaks and Sonja Singapore is Chincm Sweden is MorrisGF and Larson Switzerland is Sonja Taiwan is Chincm Wales is Bromaelor

United States Alabama is Alaska is Arizona is James Tanner Arkansas is California is  jamiemayhew Colorado is Connecticut is Delaware is District of Columbia is Florida is Georgia (state) is Hawaii is Idaho is  jenson1 Illinois is Lembley Indiana is Iowa is Familyjournals Kansas is SAErickson (need wiki username) Kentucky is Louisiana is Aberksan Maine is Maryland is Massachusetts is  Michigan is Sallyrose1 Minnesota is Mississippi is Missouri is 86woo Montana is Nebraska is  Nevada is New Hampshire is Jabhammons New Jersey is New Mexico is James Tanner New York is  North Carolina is North Dakota is Ohio is Familyjournals Oklahoma is Oregon is  Pennsylvania is Rhode Island is  South Carolina is South Dakota is Tennessee is Evancol Texas is OldNews  Utah is James Tanner Vermont is Virginia is Washington is West Virginia is Wisconsin is Wyoming is

Focused Research Germans from Russia is Indians of North America is  LDS Research is cbb Tracing Immigrant Origins is United States Military Records is McBrideLW

Historical Records

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 lead 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