Help:Location Infoboxes

What are Location Infoboxes?

 * You can see them on the right side of a page whenever you ask for information on a country in Wikipedia.
 * Infoboxes usually contain stistical information.
 * In FamilySearch Wiki, we have the same format.

Purpose of Infoboxes in FamilySearch Wiki

 * The reason for infoboxes in FamilySearch Wiki is to give to the patron a quick run down of genealocial material available to them in an condensed form on that page.
 * In this way, if a patron is looking to see if a location has Census Records, they don't have to read through the entire page to find out.
 * Every country, county or however a country in divided up has an Infobox on the right side of the page as shown here for Ohio.

How are Infoboxes Create

 * They are templates which are made up of some kind of table.
 * See the creation of Tables and templates in Wiki University.

How to edit a Infobox

 * They are edited just like any other template.
 * Whatever edit you make will showup on any page where the infobox is displayed.
 * Best to made edits in beta to make sure that there are no problems.

United States
These three infoboxes are the same. So for that reason: Whenever you add links to the State page template, you must add them to each of the other two topic page templates.
 * For State pages use: template:USstatesidebar
 * For topic pages for states with one word in their name, for example, Ohio use: Template:USstateOneWordTopicPages
 * For topic pages for states with two words in their name, for example, North Carolina use:Template:USstateTwoWordTopicPages

British Isles
Just keep in mind, when you add links to any of the British Sidebars you have to add them to the other two.
 * For Country pages in the British Isles use:template:BritishIsleSidebar
 * For British Isle county pages use:template:EngCountySidebar
 * For Topic Pages use:template:BritishIsleSidebar

Scandinavia Countries

 * For Country pages in Scandinavia use: Template:ScandinaviaCountrySidebar
 * for County pages in Scandinavia use: Template:ScandinaviaCountySidebar