User:Carlyannbagley/sandbox18

Project Leader
Carly Bagley

Examples

 * Angola Gazetteers
 * Malta Gazetteers
 * Iran Gazetteers

Purpose
To update/standardize the gazetteers pages for each country. You will use a lot of your best judgement to make these pages better. Some of these pages won't have much information. And some may have an incredible amount of information. And so we may have to modify the template in the future. Please reach out anytime you have questions or have difficulties knowing where to place information.

Task List
Task List

PART 1 : Google spreadsheet
1. Go to the Task List above and open the Google Spreadsheet. Start by selecting on the tab for Stage 1 and then work your way through the rest of the stages. 2. You'll notice that each sheet has columns for Country, Finished Gazetteer Link, Page Editor Name, Date Edited, Reviewer Name, and Date Reviewed. Here's a key for what everything means on this spreadsheet:
 * Purple Country column: This column lists the pages that you will update. You won't edit this column but you can click on each of the countries and it will take you to its FamilySearch Wiki home page.
 * Red, Orange, and Yellow Finished Gazetteer Link column: This column is where you will post the link of your finished gazetteer page when you are done. (You can also leave comments or notes in these cells if you need to organize yourself.)
 * Red cells represent countries with no gazetteer page. If you look at the sidebar of these country pages, you'll see that Gazetteers is a red link. (Stage 1)
 * Orange cells represent countries with gazetteer pages with little information. (Stages 1, 2, and 3)
 * Yellow cells represent countries with gazetteer pages with lots of information. It's possible that we may or may not edit some of these pages.(Stage 4)
 * Dark Green Page Editor Name column: List your name in this column next to a country you are working on so you can organize who will work on which countries.
 * Light Green Date Edited column: When you complete a page, list the completion date in this column.
 * Dark Blue Reviewer Name column: Don't touch this column. We'll have someone review your country page after you have finished.
 * Light Blue Date Reviewed column: Don't touch this column. We'll have someone review your country page after you have finished.

3. Type your name in the dark green Page Editor Name column next to the country you would like to work on. (Start with Phase 1 first because they are high priority.) 4. Select your country's link from the spreadsheet and select Gazetteers from sidebar.

PART 2: Filling out page
1. Drop this template onto the page:

Online Maps
3. Some of these map pages will have information that belongs in the Gazetteers section. When this is the case,

Finding Gazetteer Content
'''You might have to search by a country's colonial or alternative name. Also, you might be able to find some gazetteers by looking at continent''' 1. Use what is already on the page. 2. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog. 3. Search "COUNTRY Gazetteer" at archive.org 4. Go to this website 5. Go to this website 6. Go to this website 7. Go to this website 8. Try that nation's archive website (you might have to translate "gazetteer" into that nation's language). 9. Link to this website: * World Gazetteers at Archive.org 10. General Google Search. (Avoid gazetteers that aren't helpful like animal or weather gazetteers. A Wikipedia list of places might be helpful.)

Filling out the rest of the page
1. Add the following the rest of the page:

2. Replace COUNTRY with the country's name in the Category template.