User talk:JeaLeone

County Wiki
10/1/2021 I recently volunteered (I am new) to edit the wiki for Hennepin County, Minnesota. I started by adding Maps. There are so many that I wondered if the page was looking overwhelming rather than helpful. There are so many headings, i.e. biographies, genealogies, and so much more information to add. Setting boundaries for my work would be easier if I found a MODEL PAGE to emulate. . . . or is the task endless.

Response to County Page comments
Hello, and thank you for your recent contributions! We appreciate your help in adding information to help people in their family history research. You are correct; there is an abundance of material and it is sometimes difficult to know what to do with it all! There is no 'model page' at this time, but looking at other Minnesota county pages may give you some ideas. Currently, the headings on United States county pages are in the process of being standardized, and Minnesota pages have all been completed. It is best to place your entries under one of the provided headings rather than adding new ones.

As to your map entries, if there are any that apply to Minnesota on a state level, you might want to move them to the Minnesota Genealogy wiki page. About the 1913 P. O. Westby Atlas of Hennepin County section...I appreciate the care and work you've taken to make research easy for individual towns. I looked but did not see one single link that would allow users to then drill down to towns (at least, not a place that clearly shows the town names). I can put those into columns for you so as to take up a little less room. And thank you for ordering the map entries by date - that is very helpful!

A helpful resource for learning more about contributing to the wiki is our Wiki University. You will find the link on the left side of any wiki page, under the heading Edit the Wiki. Here is the link to the page that shows how to format links to the Wiki's standard (Under the section titled Linking): Wiki University Manual of Style. We aim for the standard of having a link and a name, so that the name is what shows on the page, not the actual URL, like the example I just used for the Manual of Style.

Thank you again for contributing!

Pamela

psleavens, Wiki Support Team (talk) 14:43, 4 October 2021 (MDT)

Response (continued)
Hello again! Sorry I wasn't clear the first time around. So, to clarify, the main 1913 map link, https://www.loc.gov/item/sanborn04339_021/, does list the town names on the right-hand side, but when I click on a name, it isn't very easy to find the actual online image. The individual town links you added help with that.

I notice you added your last comment on the User page, rather than this Talk page. We invite people to use the User page to introduce themselves, tell a little about their genealogy background, etc. The Talk page is where we post questions/answers, etc.

Thank you for adding Societies! Alpha order isn't necessary, but I'm happy to do a little reformatting using wiki-text to even up the spacing for you.

Pamela psleavens, Wiki Support Team (talk) 10:38, 5 October 2021 (MDT)

General editing information
I am so impressed and excited about the wonderful information you are adding to this county page! Thank you for enhancing research possibilities for Hennepin County. I wanted to point out the reason for a few editing changes I've made.

You'll notice I've removed some details from the wiki page where that information is already contained on the linked internet page. For example, the list of societies within the scrapbooks of the Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs. Those are easily viewed on the linked page. We try to keep the wiki page itself helpful but not too comprehensive, as long pages with lots of detail can make it hard to navigate the wiki page and find what you are looking for.

General formatting (this information is contained in the Wiki University I referenced in an earlier message): We work hard to maintain a standard format for links that includes the URL and then a name for the item or website, rather than using words such as 'Here'. The exceptions are using the word Website or Facebook for links to an institution where the name of the institution is already given (such as under Societies and Libraries, etc.). You will notice also that I sometimes move an item to a different section, again according to standards of where certain items should be.

Thank you again for your great contributions!

P.S. We are continually updating standards for the wiki pages, so you may see changes made to your additions that are based on new standards. If you ever have any questions about these changes, please feel free to post them on this Talk page.

Pamela psleavens, Wiki Support Team (talk) 11:11, 8 October 2021 (MDT)