User:MorrisGF/Sandbox

This is a sandbox area. It is a experimentation area and often contains disposable content. It's a place to practice editing.

So I've been thinking about an idea regarding record collections in a Wiki environment. Here are some thoughts behind it.

People need to know:


 * Where to find the records they need. If the records are available online, are they accessible for free or not? If they are offline, where are the original copies?
 * Records are associated to geographical boundaries and parameters in time. So they have to know historical jurisdictions and modern jurisdictions. They need a tool that connects the two.
 * This can be difficult because they do not know that records migrate from one archive to another through the years depending on funding, storage space, and politics.

So having worked in a Wiki environment for some time the thought came “why couldn’t this be created in a Wiki?” Here are some possible pluses:


 * A Wiki is community based
 * Wiki content is flexible to reflect historical and modern jurisdictions.
 * The links in the Wiki could easily point to online or offline access

Just to try out some ideas let’s take a Swedish parish for example: Let’s say there was a page called: