Help:Wiki University Contributors--Personal Pages





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My personal space
As a new contributor to the Wiki, we invite you to create and use the following pages for yourself:


 * User: a page to create a personal profile or introduction of yourself as a FamilySearch Research Wiki contributor.
 * User talk: a page to ask questions and receive help from the Research Wiki Support staff.
 * A special Sandbox: a page that contains an easily accessible table of contents of all your sandbox pages.
 * Sandbox workareas: pages you can create as workareas for your projects.

The USER page

 * login to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
 * in the Wiki search box (top right hand corner) enter the following: User:yourusername, then click enter.
 * - NOTE: change "yourusername" to your "FamilySearch login name".


 * press the [Create source] tab to create a new page.
 * add information to introduce yourself.
 * scroll down and type "Created my USER profile page" into the [Summary] box.
 * click on the [Save changes] button to save your User page.

The User talk page

 * login to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
 * go to your newly created User page, then press the [Talk] tab.
 * add a new topic by pressing the link [Start a new talk topic] or by pressing the [Add topic] tab.
 * enter your question or comments, then click on [Save changes] to save the page.

A Special Sandbox

 * login to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
 * in the Wiki search box, enter the following: User:yourusername/Sandbox, then click enter.
 * - NOTE: change "yourusername" to your "FamilySearch login name".


 * click on the [Create source] button.
 * copy and paste this code   onto the first line of the coding box.
 * - NOTE: change "yourusername" to your "FamilySearch login name".


 * copy and paste this code   onto the second line of the coding box.
 * scroll down and type "Created my HOME sandbox page" into the [Summary] box.
 * click on [Save changes] to save your page.

Sandbox Workareas

 * login to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
 * in the Wiki search box, enter the following: User:yourusername/Sandbox/workareaname, then click enter.
 * - NOTE: change "yourusername" to your "FamilySearch login name".
 * - NOTE: the "workareaname" can be any short, descriptive name YOU choose to use.


 * if you are editing using Visual Editor, click on the [Create] button; if you are a Wikitext Editor, click on the [Create source] button.
 * add the new information you desire.
 * add a category named Sandbox to the bottom of the page (after your newly added information).
 * add a [Summary] describing changes made to your sandbox, then [Save] your page.

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