User:Carlyannbagley/sandbox12

Project Leader
Carly Bagley

Purpose
To add "Maps" and "Gazetteers" to every country's sidebar.

Task List
Task List

Step 1. Getting Started
Go to the Task List (it's right above these instructions). Open the Google Sheet so you can see all countries. This Google Sheet is divided by continent/geographic area. There are 7 tabs: Africa, North America & Caribbean, South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia, and Pacific. Select one of the tabs at the bottom of the window. You'll notice that each sheet is organized by Country, Maps, and Gazetteers. You'll also notice that underneath Maps and Gazetteers, some of the cells are red and some are green. The red cells mean that "Maps", "Gazetteers", or both need to be added to the a country's sidebar page. Green cells mean that either "Maps" or "Gazetteers" has already been added. (Usually! PLEASE double-check every country to make sure that each has been added to the sidebar.) Select a country. The hyperlink will take you to its country page. On the right side of the page, you will see the sidebar (the rectangle with the country's flag on it). Underneath Background, you will see several links underneath.
 * If you see a "Map" bulletpoint underneath Background, go to the Google Doc. Highlight the map cell and fill it with green. Then, type your name in the cell. Please be careful when updating the document. Make sure that the cell you are updating is for the country you are looking at.
 * If you see a "Gazetteers" bulletpoint underneath Background, also go to the Google Doc. Highlight the gazetteer cell and fill it with green. Then, type your name in the cell. Please be careful when updating the document. Make sure that the cell you are updating is for the country you are looking at.
 * If you don't see "Maps" or "Gazetteers", then go to Step 2 below.
 * If you see a single "Maps & Gazetteers" bulletpoint, then go to Step 3 below.

Step 2: Adding "Maps" or "Gazetteers"

 * 1. Sign into FamilySearch if you haven't already.
 * 2. Next to the search bar, there are 6 tabs. ("Read," "Edit," "Edit source," "View history," a star, and "More") Select Edit source.
 * 3. Towards the bottom of the page, you should see Templates used on this page: with template links listed underneath. Select edit by the sidebar template. It should something like this:
 * Template:Zambia-sidebar (edit)

NOTE: Select edit. Do not select the template.
 * 4. There will be a lot of text on this page. You will be editing a country's background information. Scroll down until you see something like the following:
 * | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background: #C8C8C8; font-size:14pt"|Country Background:
 * | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * *History
 * *Jurisdictions
 * *Languages
 * | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * *Maps
 * *Social Life & Customs
 * *Social Life & Customs

NOTE: Notice how the wikitext above has a label, "Country Background." This is very important. Other wikitext on this page will look similar to the above, but it needs to be labeled as Country Background. Or else, you might edit the wrong place.
 * 5. Ok, time to add "Gazetteers" (or "Maps") to the page. Look at the wikitext above. All the links are divided into two sections. Notice how the first section has links for History, Jurisdictions, and Languages. The second section has links for Maps and Social Life and Customs.
 * We still need to add "Gazetteers" to the list. We also need to add it alphabetically to the list. Copy the text below:


 * *Gazetteers


 * And then place it where it belongs alphabetically. For this example, because "Gazetteers" comes before "History," alphabetically, "Gazetteers" will be first on the list. It should look something like this:


 * | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background: #C8C8C8; font-size:14pt"|Country Background:
 * | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * *Gazetteers
 * *History
 * *Jurisdictions
 * *Languages
 * | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * *Maps
 * *Social Life & Customs
 * *Social Life & Customs

You will then put in the country's name where COUNTRY is. (NOTE: Some country's have a lengthy name. Put in the name that the other links use. For example in this template, you would put in "Zambia" because that's what the other links use. You wouldn't put in "Republic of Zambia." We're doing this to keep things standardized :) ) If you need to add "Maps" to the sidebar, then you would follow these instructions too. Instead, you will copy the following and make sure that you alphabetically place "Maps" where it needs to go:
 * *Maps


 * 6. Alright, so because we added "Gazetteers" to the first section, it's kinda lopsided now. We need to make sure that there is an equal number of links in each section. So, we are going to move the bottom link (which in this example is "Languages" and move it to the top of the second section (above "Maps"). This is so we can keep the links in alphabetical order. It should look something like this:
 * | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * *Gazetteers
 * *History
 * *Jurisdictions
 * | style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * *Languages
 * *Maps
 * *Social Life & Customs
 * *Social Life & Customs

Because we have 2 sections and 6 links, each section has 3 links. But if we had an odd number of links, then we would have one more link in the first section. For example if we had 7 links, then we would put 4 links in the first section and the remaining 3 in the second section.
 * 7. Select Save page. It will then redirect you to a page that shows your updated country sidebar. Double-check to make sure it looks okay. The new link you added will be red. This is fine because these new pages will be updated in the future.
 * 8. Go to the Google Doc.