User talk:Sydneymatlock

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New Contributor Lessons
Hello! Thank you so much for your contributions to the FamilySearch Wiki. We are pleased to share a series of weekly lessons that you may take at your convenience. They are designed to help you get comfortable using the Wiki. We have shared the first two lessons below:

'''Lesson 1. '''

Create Your User Page:


 * Help with your user page
 * Go to your user page

Lesson 2.

Create Your Sandbox:


 * Practice editing in your sandbox
 * Go to your sandbox

Marilynbgardner49 23:51, 31 July 2015 (UTC)

I see that you are working on the Marble Falls Texas Family History Center page. Thank you. You might appreciate the tips available on the Wiki Help page, Adding Details to a Family History Center Page.

Uploading pictures
I'm having an issue uploading images to the Marble Falls Family History page. I read the instructions and understand that I need to have images uploaded and approved before adding them through the editor. However, when I select "Upload File" under Toolbox, it sends me to a special page and says "you are not signed in - return to Main Page." I thought it might be an error that would soon be resolved, so I tried again a couple of weeks later and it persisted. I emailed tech support and didn't get a response. It's been about 3 weeks and I'm trying again with no luck. Am I missing a step somewhere? I have tried on probably three different computers (at home and at the FHC), in various browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Silk). Thanks in advance. Sydneymatlock 16:37, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi Sydney,

Great job putting the helpme template on your page. The problem of being timed out has been going on on the Wiki for several months. The programmers have not had time to fix it yet. We are so sorry it has happened to you. It was much worse recently because a special project brought almost 100,000 workers to the FamilySearch system but this has been finished and seem to be back to about 15-20 minutes of still time and it will time you out. Hope this helps. Sandralpond 00:48, 21 August 2015 (UTC)