FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Fixing MA Town Links on County Pages

Purpose
The purpose of this project is to fix the Massachusetts Town Links on the County Pages, and add or update the Brief History section by adding the Wikipedia page link

Contact
Angela.Sellers@FamilySearch.org

Task List
The tab of the Massachusetts Task List is labeled Part 33
 * Massachusetts Task List

Project Overview
Part One
 * Pick one County from the task list and put your name in all of the Towns there
 * The first item to be fixed is updating or adding the Brief History section on the Town page
 * Next add the Wikipedia Massachusetts Town page link to the Brief History section of each Town on the Task list


 * Finish all of the Towns in the County on the Task List before going to Part Two

Part Two
 * Fix Cities and Town links on the County page

Part One
Remember to finish all towns in the county before going on to Part Two

Step One
Open these two links:
 * Massachusetts Task List
 * Massachusetts, United States Genealogy
 * From the Massachusetts Task List, choose a Massachusetts County, then click on the first Town link to open the Town page
 * For these instructions Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts was chosen


 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 2.JPG
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 2a.JPG


 * From the Massachusetts, United States Genealogy link, open up the State page


 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 1a.JPG

Step Two

 * On the Massachusetts State page, scroll down to the Massachusetts Clickable Map and click on the County that goes with the Town you chose


 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 1.JPG


 * For these instructions Barnstable County was clicked on
 * On the County page click on 1.6 Populated Places to get to the List of Cities and Towns
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 3.JPG

Step Three

 * Click on Barnstable in the Cities section


 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 4.JPG


 * This will take you to the Wikipedia page for Barnstable
 * This page has all the information you will need to make the Wikipedia link
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 5.JPG


 * From the Task List Barnstable Town page that was opened, at the top of the Contents section, there should be a Brief History section
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 6.JPG


 * If there is not a Brief History section then one needs to be added

Step Four

 * Steps to adding the Brief History section
 * At the top of the Town page click on Edit Source
 * Copy and paste this WikiText below'''
 * Add === Brief History === after the the Map section and before the Town Section

=== Brief History === Project/* Brief History */ Adding and updating Brief History Section
 * This is an example of what it would look like on the Edit Source page
 * Save the page in the Summary with
 * This is an example of what the Contents section looks like with the Brief History section in it
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 8.JPG

Step Five

 * Steps to adding the Wikipedia link to the Massachusetts Town page
 * Go to the Brief History section and click on Edit Source
 * Copy and paste this WikiText below right after the Brief History section

*[URL NAME OF PAGE] at Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
 * From the Wikipedia page copy the URL and paste it where the URL is in the WikiText that is above
 * Then copy the name of the page and paste it after the URL


 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 14.JPG

*Barnstable, Massachusetts at Wikipedia
 * This is what the Wikipedia Link should look like on the Town page in the Brief History section:
 * Please do not copy
 * This is an example of what the WikiText looks like before saving the edit
 * Make sure there is a space between the URL and Name of Page
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 7.JPG


 * Saving the edit
 * Copy and paste this in the Summary

Project/* Brief History */ Adding and updating Brief History Section
 * This is an example of what your edit will look like in Show Preview
 * This is an example of what the Brief History section looks like with the Wikipedia link
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 9.JPG

Step Six

 * Please finish all of the Brief Histories for each Town before going on to Part Two
 * Keep these two links open:
 * Massachusetts Task List
 * Massachusetts, United States Genealogy

Part Two

 * Fixing the Massachusetts Cities and Town Links on the County Page
 * This image is an example of the wrong links for the Cities and Towns
 * Notice a box and arrow after each of the Cities or Towns
 * These links need to be changed from the Wikipedia page to the Cities or Town WIKI page
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 10.JPG


 * This image shows the right link for Barnstable City and goes to the Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts Genealogy page
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 11a.JPG

Step One

 * Fixing the links
 * On the Massachusetts State page scroll down to the clickable map and choose a County
 * Barnstable County was chosen
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 1.JPG


 * Click on 1.6 Populated Places to get to the list of Cities and Towns
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 3.JPG


 * Click on Edit Source by Populated Places and keep this open
 * All of the links for the Cities and Towns need to be fixed which have the Wikipedia link


 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 4.JPG


 * Copy and Paste the WikiText below over the Wikipedia link for the Town

*TOWN
 * From the Massachusetts Task List click on the Town you want to fix
 * Copy and Paste the name of the Town page into the WikiText


 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 6.JPG
 * Please do not copy

*TOWN
 * Next copy the name of the city or town and paste it over TOWN part
 * Please do not copy

*Barnstable
 * '''This is what the Town Link should look like on the County page:
 * Notice there is no box or arrow

Step Two

 * Keep this Edit Source page open on the County page, Populated Places
 * From the Task List click on each Town to get the Page Name
 * Keep going down the Cities and Town links that have the Wikipedia link in them and replace
 * MA Fixing Town Links Update Brief History Part 13a.JPG

Step Three
Project/*Populated Places*/ Fixing Cities and Town links
 * Once all of the Cities and Towns are fixed, save the page with:
 *  Once finished with the County go to the next County on the Task List
 * Start over with Part One in adding the Wikipedia link to the Brief Histories on the Town page