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What is a Wiki?
A wiki is a web site developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. Wikipedia is an example of a wiki

Video: Wiki In Plain English

What is the FamilySearch Research Wiki
The FamilySearch Research Wiki is a genealogy wiki

Video: FamilySearch Research Wiki

Use the Wiki to get answers to genealogical questions
Share some success stories that show how it solved a problem - video preferred Show how it can teach you strategy or improve your research processing - video

Promote Your Society
Podcast: FamilySearch Research Wiki and Your Society with Thomas MacEntee (56 minutes)


 * Publicize your society by creating your own Society Page (Instructions on creating a Society Page)

How Do I Start?
Videos

Interactive Tutorials

Create a FamilySearch Account

Create Your User Page

Editing Tips


 * Wiki Cheatsheet

How to Get One-on-One Help


 * Your Family History Library Consultant
 * Contributor Help
 * Support Team Chat
 * FamilySearch Forums

From Jane's wiki toolbox

 * Wiki Basics


 * Help:Adopt-a-page/Quick_Start_Links

This doesn't seem extremely crucial. Some societies may want to do this, but it could be places somewhere less prominent - perhaps under ways societies can help.

Types of Pages

 * User Page
 * Discussion/Talk Page
 * History Page

What Does it Mean ?

 * Wiki Cheatsheet
 * Wiki Markup
 * Help:Wiki_Terminology
 * Magic Words
 * Edit Summary Legend

Keywords

 * Namespaces
 * Sandbox
 * Categories

For the Project Leader

 * How to Run or Manage A Wiki Project
 * Wiki Trainer
 * Adopt a Page ~ Getting Started
 * Creating a Society Page
 * Developing a U.S. County Page

How We Do It

 * Contributor Guidelines
 * Guiding Principles
 * Policies
 * Purpose and Appropriate Topics

Watch a Video

 * Editing a Wiki Article
 * Adding Links
 * Adding Images
 * Adding Citations
 * Creating a Wiki Article
 * Watching Wiki Articles
 * Using Templates

I like the order of this list

Interactive Courses

 * Wiki Overview
 * Editing Articles
 * Adding Links and Citations
 * Creating Articles
 * Inserting Images and Using Templates
 * Watching Articles and Using History

Ways to Get Help

 * Your Family History Library Consultant
 * Contributor Help
 * Support Team Chat
 * FamilySearch Forums

Around the Wiki

 * New Contributor Training
 * Community Center
 * Community Meetings
 * Community News