FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah

Wiki community members, Utah Genealogical Association (UGA), and a few members of US/Canada Reference at the Family History Library will work to improve the Utah related pages on the FamilySearch Wiki from November 2011 through March 2012 to help educate genealogists how to find ancestors who lived part of their lives in Utah. We hope you'll be part of the project to help untold numbers of future users! Template:Adoption Utah Genealogical Association

Schedule

2011 12 October Show and tell and brainstorm with US/Canada Consultants and Utah moderators
15 October show and tell WikiProject Utah to Logan Family History conference. Begin recruiting.
18 October initial Project Utah meeting to:

approve overall agenda
select future meeting times
approve a Wiki site for Project Utah meeting agenda and minutes
approve a tentative Project Utah schedule
approve or begin approving proposed project rules
approve or begin approving a proposed project model county style page

In subsequent meetings finish any business from above, and:

adopt the existing task list for modification, or create a proposed alternative task list
approve a project completion measuring tool (possibly modeled after the one for Illinois)

2012 1 Jan Utah treasure hunt begins
31 Mar WikiProject Utah ends

Participants

List of participants of FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject New York:

**Participants**
User Name	Name	Contact Info
hendricksonp	Patsy Hendrickson	hendricksonp@familysearch.org
AdkinsWH	Wilma Adkins	whadkins@burgoyne.com
markhammj	Marilyn Markham	markhammj@familysearch.org
HoleDL	Dawne Hole	Holedl@familysearch.org
FowlesLO	Lois Fowles

We ask that each participant paste the following code on their user page:

{{User WikiProject Utah}}

Overall Objectives

Improve or create Utah related Wiki pages:

Top Utah introductory page
Statewide topic pages
County pages
Repository pages
Migration pathway pages

Next Scheduled Meeting

Next meeting: Thursday 8 October 2011 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. (Mountain Time)
Format: MeetingPlace Meetings ID 7717. Click to Attend or Dial in Number: 801-240-2663. MeetingPlace ID 7717.

Contact David Dilts telephone 801-240-3477 for details.

Framework

Proposed subject to community approval:
The following rules will be adopted by the WikiProject Utah members until end of the project tentatively schedules for 31 January 2012.

1A. Project Goal: Concentrate on adding new content that teaches readers how to use well Utah genealogical search strategies, records, or repositories.
1B. Benchmarks: Create content for Utah Wiki pages with a balance of these four hierarchical factors in mind:

a. Genealogical Pedagogical Purpose. Be able to explain what the reader can do genealogically that they could not do before reading your words or seeing your images or tables.

b. Clarity. Make sure everyone understands your meaning and the pedagogical purpose of your words.

c. Brevity. Be succinct as possible without sacrificing pedagogical purpose or clarity.

d. Documentation. Footnote(s) revealing the source(s) of the content you are creating.

2. Vetted content. Before you add similar words to more than one Utah Wiki page your words must be vetted and approved by any two other team members who are guided by rule #1 and agree with you on that way of presenting it.

3. Style. The first few days of the Utah project we will agree on a model style, and create at least one example page of it. Team members must follow that style during the project. After that agreement NO style changes will be allowed for the remainder of the project (tentatively until 1 February 2012). No discussion of changing the style will be allowed. Style includes but is not limited to:

Words used in headers (anything that would appear in the table of contents if there were one) Match with FHL Catalog subject headings as much as possible.
Heading levels three, four or five; avoid one and two
order of presentation
Table of contents style or position (or lack of TOC)
image, table, or template positions or size; prefer sharp images relevant to the topic on the page
font
bold
italic for titles of published books
underline
indentation
bullets
numbering
citations in footnote style

Please use the full Chicago Manual of Style footnote style (modified):

- Author(s), followed by a comma

- Title (book titles in italics)

Publication data in parenthesis:

- Publication place, followed by a colon

- Publisher

- Year of publication

- comma, and the the page number(s) followed by a period

Access information:

- link to free online copy, if any. IF a free online copy is available no further access data needs to be added. IF NO free online edition is available, then add:

- WorldCat template: {{WorldCat|#####|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}.

- FHL template: {{FHL|####|item|disp=FHL Film ###; Fiche ###; Book ###}}.

- Brief annotation explaining the content, or why, or how a reader would want to use the source.

image, table, or template style
internal link style
external link style including brief annotation. Prefer http:// links over https:// links.
use, or lack of use of standard templates

4. Wording changes. Before changing the saved wording of another team member who followed these rules you must get their consent (except for obvious minor typos).

5. Links with purpose. The Wiki is not a links repository. It uses links to support the genealogical educational purpose of a page or section of a page. Show and explain links with an educational purpose in mind. Annotate each external link briefly but well enough for the reader to realize what they will be getting if they click that link.

6. Seek out local and unique genealogical search strategies, records, or repositories and explain them to readers.

7. Describe each edit in the Summary field before clicking the Save button.

8. Non-compliance will result in work being reverted, or changed to follow these rules.

Model Utah County Style Page

See Beaver County, Utah.

Templates

It has been decided to use templates for narrative text that will be used on multiple county, town, or other pages (such as Courthouse pages). This will allow changes to be made across all pages simultaneously. Check first to make sure that a template filling your need does not already exist by clicking on the category link listed below. If a template fitting your needs does not already exist, follow the steps below. If you wish to edit an existing template page, make sure to contact the team member(s) who created the original before making your changes.

To create a new narrative template for the pages of the Utah WikiProject:

1. Create a new page with the following name: Template:Utah[record type]
2. Type the text for your template. Make sure that all concepts, sentence structure, and grammar are independent and can stand on their own if need be.
3. Add the Utah Project template category using the following wikitext: <noinclude> [[Category:Templates for Utah pages]] </noinclude> . (If the category is added to the template without the <noinclude> , the category will also appear on all pages that use the template.)
4. Approve the wording with at least three other members of the Utah WikiProject Team.
5. Add the template to county pages using {{[template page name]}}

To see a list of current existing narrative templates, see Category:Templates for Utah pages.