User:RitcheyMT

=  Michael Ritchey  =

Michael Ritchey, the founding manager of FamilySearch Wiki, is a community and content manager of the Community Services team, a workgroup in the Family History Department, Corporation of the President, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The Community Services workgroup was assembled in December 2008. Roughly half the team came from the Research Support workgroup who are the founders of FamilySearch Wiki.

A new sandbox
A Sandbox of Edit and Contribute

My favorite report
Here's a report regarding wiki edit output from FHL reference units and individuals.

Links to pages that take me forever to find

 * MediaWiki:FSSidebar

Pages I recommend to new users

 * Etiquette Guidelines. When people who are accustomed to creating their own Websites or paper publications first engage as a wiki contributor, they commonly struggle with the transition from a heirarchal command-and-control publication management model to a flat, peer-based, consensus-driven community editing model. A document that we've found useful to get our heads in the right mindset is Etiquette Guidelines. It'll teaches users how to work smoothly and efficiently with others in the wiki environment.

Good articles

 * 1) Prussia-Brandenburg Civil Registration details jurisdiction changes that affect which office would have documented vital records of ancestors there. Shows old place names with their modern equivalents, and links to indexes listing streets and their corresponding civil registration offices.

Users from whom I solicit opinions
These are the users who I invite to weigh in on wiki discussions -- particularly governance or Manual of Style issues.


 * 1) Alan
 * 2) Baerbel
 * 3) Bakerbh
 * 4) Batsondl
 * 5) Bromaelor
 * 6) CK Whipple (Kara Wahlquist)
 * 7) Cottrells
 * 8) David E. Rencher
 * 9) Diltsgd
 * 10) Dsammy
 * 11) Familyjournals
 * 12) Franjensen
 * 13) G Fröberg Morris
 * 14) Genguide
 * 15) Gregorybean
 * 16) Hendricksonp
 * 17) Jbparker
 * 18) Jonesja
 * 19) Laralee
 * 20) Lembley
 * 21) Molliewog
 * 22) Mormor
 * 23) Nixiao
 * 24) Phillip Dunn
 * 25) Proarenee
 * 26) Sonja
 * 27) Thomas Lerman