FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Texas Infoboxes
Purpose
Place infoboxes on the Texas counties where they are missing.
Contact
Task List
Instructions
Webex video recording of training
Step 1 - Adding the Infobox
1. Go to the Task List and sign out a group of counties to work on. When you find an infobox already on a county page, skip to the next county.
2. To insert the Infobox onto a county page, copy the code below onto your clipboard.
3. Go to the county page and click on "edit page." When the edit box comes up, click on the "Wikitext" option on the top left hand side of the menu.
4. This code can be pasted directly below the SEO statement at the top of the page, being sure not to have anything else between the opening double brackets and the closing double brackets.
{{Infobox U.S. County
| county = Rrrrrr County
| adoption_sign = Adoption Ssssss
| county_map = Tx-uuuuuu.png
| state = Texas
| state_map = Texas.png
| founded year = Wwww
| founded date = PPPPP
| seat = Hhhhhhhhh
| building image =
| building address = Zzzz County Courthouse<br>Aaaaaaaa<br>Bbbbb}}
Step 2 - Editing the Code
1. The date founded and county seat information have already been added to the county pages, so you can find that when you pull up your page to insert the Infobox. It should be under the heading, Parent County.
2. Rrrrr - change to correct county name (mixed case)
3. Sssss - insert name of adoption template (mixed case) Name can be found on the existing adoption box already on the county page. It will be either TXGenWeb or Hidden Ancestors
4. Uuuuu - change to reflect the name of the county you are working on. Do not capitalize the name, and be sure to leave in the .png afterward.
5. Wwwww - Year county was founded (just the year). It can be found on the county page under the heading, Parent County.
6. PPPPP - Month and day county was founded. It can be found on the county page under the heading, Parent County.
7. Hhhhhhhh - County Seat. It can be found on the county page under the heading, Parent County.<br
8. Zzzzz - Put in the name of county.
9. Aaaaaa - Add the street address of courthouse. It can be found on the county page under the heading, County Courthouse.
10. Bbbbb - City, state address of courthouse. It can be found on the county page under the heading, County Courthouse.
Example of a correctly filled in infobox:
{{Infobox U.S. County<br>
| county = Bowie County
| adoption_sign =
| county_map = Tx-bowie.png
| state = Texas
| state_map = Texas.png
| founded year = 1897
| founded date = February 2
| seat = Smith
| building address = Bowie County Courthouse<br>112 Main Street<br>Smith, Texas}}
Step 3 - Removing Adoption box
2. You will then need to remove the current adoption box from the page. It will either say
or
3. Once you have completed these step, review your page to be sure all fields are correct. Then, add in the Edit summary, "added infobox" and click, Save. Review the infobox to make sure the information displays correctly.
4. You can then go to the next county. When you have finished all counties assigned, you can go back to the Task List and enter the date completed.