User:Wonghk3/Sandbox/WU-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 you create about yourself.
 * 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.
 * there will be two tabs at the top labeled [Create] and [Create source]:
 * - if you are using Visual Editor, press the [Create] tab.
 * - if you are a wikitext editor, press the [Create source] tab.


 * add information to introduce yourself, then add a brief description summarizing what you did in the [Summary] section.
 * Finally, click on the [Save changes] button.

The User talk page

 * go to your newly created User page, the 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 comments, add a Summary, then Save your page.

A Special Sandbox

 * in the Wiki search box enter the following: User:yourusername/Sandbox, then click enter.
 * click on either the [Create] or [Create source] button.
 * add the template named  , add a Summary, then Save your page.

Sandbox Workareas

 * in the Wiki search box enter the following: User:yourusername/Sandbox/workareaname, then click enter.
 * click on either the [Create] or [Create source] button.
 * add the content you desire, add a Summary, then Save your page.

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