User:Luccagenes/Sandbox/Article2

The "Easy Access Series" of articles is designed to provide a focused approach (a hub) to finding a number of wiki pages related to a specific topic.

This page provides access to information pertinent to the Wiki Support group and includes background information about the wiki and the support function designed to maintain the wiki and its communities. Also provided are the links to volunteer opportunities available to all of the Research Wiki readers and references to how this wiki is to be governed by the community in conjunction with the wiki current policies and guidelines. Finally, access to another hub (The Support Team) provides information that pertains to the actual responsibilities of the support personnel.

 Build a Better Wiki Options for Volunteers Use the submit form, if preferred

Add content: big or small Create a new article Improve an article’s content/style Suggest a new article Expand an article Translate an article Update/add links to articles

Take part in 'Wiki'Care Help with Wiki Support Create a “Help” article Mark a stub article Categorize articles/photos Become a moderator Patrol the Wiki Add your input to meeting discussions Join the Welcoming committee Assist with training Become a mentor

Get involved in Team Projects Adopt a page Select an active project Suggest/build a project Watch for “barn raising” projects Whether you like to be at the head of the parade twirling the baton or prefer to remain in the background building the floats, all volunteers are welcome A full listing can be found by clicking here  Build a Better Wiki Options for Volunteers Use the submit form, if preferred

Add content: big or small Create a new article Improve an article’s content/style Suggest a new article Expand an article Translate an article Update/add links to articles

Take part in 'Wiki'Care Help with Wiki Support Create a “Help” article Mark a stub article Categorize articles/photos Become a moderator Patrol the Wiki Add your input to meeting discussions Join the Welcoming committee Assist with training Become a mentor

Get involved in Team Projects Adopt a page Select an active project Suggest/build a project Watch for “barn raising” projects Whether you like to be at the head of the parade twirling the baton or prefer to remain in the background building the floats, all volunteers are welcome A full listing can be found by clicking here

this is a proposed table that could be added to the initial "submit" page. This is just speculation at this point as the forms do not currently exist.

Question: Should these links be "external" as to force a new tab window (side by side)?

Possible checklist of "Code of Conduct" violations (for support group form)


 * Offensive language or Images
 * Corrupt links (viruses, immoral sites, commercial sites, etc)
 * Neutrality issue
 * False or misleading information
 * Personal information displayed
 * Vandalism (Damaged article or pages)
 * Copyright infringement
 * Libelous statements

Note: Currently, all the bullet links are active except for "The Support Team" which is under construction (currently goes to “Beginners First Step” as a temporary set point). The center image links to the Wiki Home Page (Main_Page). The “HubSupportTeam” template can be found in User:Lindachappell/Sandbox.

DONE done DONE done DONE done DONE

Note: the best page to link to the image bullet will be determined and then a table of related links will be made and attached to the bottom of that linked article. Will also add a "highlight box" to the article to give the option of jumping to the related links. May even play with an "article summary" table,

What is Wiki Support
This page is done

FamilySearch Wiki:Wiki Support/Foundation Image map link


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Wiki Support/Reading List

Support Role
This page is done (the three links at bottom did do not fit with this page - check for other locations)

FamilySearch Wiki:Wiki Support/Responsibilities and Projects Image map link


 * Special:User group rights
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Moderator Approval Procedures
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Administrators
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Patrolling
 * Help:Patrolling new pages
 * Help:Patrolling recent changes
 * Help:Patrolling Talk pages
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance

FamilySearch Wiki:Contributor assistance FamilySearch Wiki:Third opinion FamilySearch Wiki:Mediation Committee

Wiki Policies
'''This section is done. Have moved the highlight box and table to the article. Note: The article has apparently been translated, does this addition create a problem?'''


 * Category:FamilySearch Wiki policy
 * Category:Policy proposals
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Policies/Proposed enhancements
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Policies/Noticeboard
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Privacy Policy
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Policies Image map link
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Bots provisions
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Editing
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Deletion Process
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Blocking and Banning
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Dispute resolution
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Attack pages
 * Template:Policies and guidelines (split)
 * http://creativecommons.org/licenses/
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Verifiable
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Neutral point of view


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Civility and Polite Discourse


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Purpose and Appropriate Topics
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Avoid Edit Wars
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Arbitration
 * FamilySearch Wiki:No personal attacks
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Avoid legal threats
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Copyrights
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Conditions of Use
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Ownership of articles
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Page or article naming
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Linking
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Mediation
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Mediation Committee
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Formal Mediation Policy
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Image use
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Libel
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Policy Changes or Additions
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Vandalism
 * FamilySearch Wiki:New Common Taxonomy
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Sandbox policy
 * FamilySearch Wiki:The Un-Portal Page

Guiding Principles
 This page is done and highlight box and table have been transfered to the Guiding Principles article 


 * Category:Style guidelines
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Guiding Principles Image map link
 * Template:Policies and guidelines (split)
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Link, don’t copy
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Biographies


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Talk page guidelines (good practices)
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Signatures
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Be kind to newcomers
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Assume good faith
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Etiquette Guidelines
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Three-revert rule


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Digital Coups
 * FamilySearch Wiki:User ID


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Source Citation Formats
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Naming conventions
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Proven techniques
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Proper Content
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Article or page size
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Disambiguation
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Category deletion
 * FamilySearch Wiki:User page
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Syllabuses

Guideline Proposals:


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Geographic Names
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Categorization

Articles:


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Transforming a Style Idea to a Manual of Style Guideline
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Manual of Style
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Accuracy and collaboration
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Consensus


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Tips to avoid disputes
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Talk to each other
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Mediation Requests
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Contributor assistance

The Support Center
Link to sub-hub page (sandbox)

Volunteers wanted
FamilySearch Wiki:Help wanted on the Wiki Image map link

FamilySearch Wiki:Things you can do FamilySearch Wiki:Wiki Support/Things to do Help:Volunteer to help Help:Wiki care and support Help:Wiki trainers Help:Moderators FamilySearch Wiki:Contributor Support Committee FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance and Patrolling Committee FamilySearch Wiki:Maintaining the Help Content Committee Live Research Assistance:Interested in Volunteering?

Category:Wiki Maintenance participants FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProjects Seeking Contributors FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProjects Seeking Contributors/Inactive FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. counties Category:Roles in the FamilySearch Wiki (check links) FamilySearch Wiki:Userboxes

Community governs
This section is complete as the highlight box and the table have been moved to the article.

FamilySearch Wiki:How Community Governs Wikipedia Image map link ( DONE : article needs revamp and finish links, will put the Wikipedia links + descriptions in a collapsable table)

These links are for reference and will not be added at this time (they are already present at various locations) Category:Governance Team members FamilySearch Wiki:Oversight FamilySearch Wiki:Bureaucrats FamilySearch Wiki:Moderator FamilySearch Wiki:Reviewer FamilySearch Wiki:Contributor assistance (how to list a dispute) FamilySearch Wiki:Dispute resolution FamilySearch Wiki:Administrators FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance Templates FamilySearch Wiki:Community Meetings FamilySearch Wiki:Contact us FamilySearch Wiki:Cleanup (see links below) Category:Deletion Requests

Category:ASAP Deletion Requests Category:Neutrality disputes Category:Outdated articles Category:Outdated articles Category:Copyright problems Category:Ambiguous page title Category:Ambiguous page title Category:Articles needing citations Category:All articles with unsourced statements Category:Articles with dead external links

Category:All Articles with dead external links Help:Assigning permissions FamilySearch Wiki:Known Issues

About the Wiki
FamilySearch Wiki:Introduction Image map link

The following links have bee added to the "Related Articles" section of the page above. FamilySearch Wiki:About Us FamilySearch Wiki:History of content organization, browsing, and categories Help:Tour (Welcome to the Research Wiki) Help:Contributor Help Help:Keys to success using the Wiki

Volunteer to help

Submit Wiki Content Offer suggestions (Get Satisfaction) Notify Wiki department of Problems Help write page Help maintain page Get Involved

The Community Center

Category:Wiki community Moderators Adopters Community Council

Things to do

Category:Wiki community FamilySearch Wiki:Things you can do FamilySearch Wiki:Help wanted on the Wiki FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance team work FamilySearch Wiki:Page Enhancement Committee - not current FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance and Patrolling Committee - not current FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProjects Seeking Contributors Category: Volunteer (being updated)

The Support Center

Team Members (Google Doc - needs permission) Meetings Chart and links to Support work Team Member Assignments (Google Doc - needs permission)

FamilySearch Wiki:Wiki Support/To Do as Scheduled (Subheading)

About The Wiki

Take part in Wiki care

Help:Wiki care and support

This is the information I noted when going through the initial page (from the sidebar). You may want to add your specific list (Wiki Support Team, Schedules, Patrolling, Assignments, Team Task, How to, Volunteer, Fine Print) as a sub-hub off the main hub page in something like “Wiki Care”. This is just my casual observation (in other words I don’t know what I’m talking about) since I did not read everything in its entirety. I agree that there is some redundancy here and there and someday “they” could make a “project” out of updating and organizing this section (but they will probably leave that up to you).

1. What is Wiki Support (foundation)   a. Vision    b. Contributors Community                1. Talk pages               2. GetSatisfaction               3. Meetings                       i.  Support meetings                        ii. Contributors meetings                       iii. Tech meetings               4. Yammer   c. Help Content                1. Researchers               2. Contributors               3. Maintenance   d. Policies and Guidelines (several links each)    e. Governance (Wikipedia)    f. Disputes    g. Patrolling and Maintenance (several links)    h. International wikis

2. Current Support Work (Support Role?)    a. Meetings     b. Patrolling                1. Review GS, Salesforce, Submit Wiki Content               2. New pages               3. Categories               4. Talk pages               5. Recent changes    c. Schedule (talbe)     d. Assigned projects     e. Best practices     f. Things to do                1. Specific               2. General               3. Future

3. Volunteers    a. Trainers     b. Wiki care     c. Contributors     d. Moderators

4. Responsibilities    a. Support volunteers     b. Welcome/help volunteers     c. Support international wikis     d. Role management     e. Template maintenance     f. Help (content/ tours, demos, overviews)

5. Administration    a. Transparency     b. Wikipedia/Mediawiki documentation     c. Template management     d. Special pages/Magic Words

6. Team Members

From the perspective of a "novice's point of view"

A hub should not be a page where you can get to "everywhere" in the wiki, it should be a set of directions (road signs) showing you how to get there (leading you there).

Notes about the characteristics of a good hub page

For a “hub” page, you want the user to come in, notice one or two things of interest right away (at the top), pick the link they want, and then go. You do not want to much clutter for the novice (too many choices will get them lost) while the experts know what they want and want to get there fast (using the sidebar or by progressing onto the next page via the hub bullets). A hub should provide quick navigation for those familiar with the wiki as well as a limited number of concise directions for the novice.

Basic page layout: Top row of headliner boxes (two or three, two for 640px and add another for larger display). These could highlight current, next, and future projects that want contributors to help (advertising space). A simple, straight forward sidebar for Wiki Projects is good for quick access to previously accessed pages. A simple bullet hub to redirect the experienced user to where they want to be while as the same time, providing guided direction for the novice. Include a "Quick HELP Links" table near the end (out of sight and not a distraction) for those that are "lost".

Page color schemes: Use minimal dark colors (use for sidebar headers), pick one basic color selection (for example: blue, green, brown, or yellow) with other colors being shades of the main color. Reds are for Alert, Accent, or Warning, use only once or twice per page or as border colors (minimal border widths). Too many colors (outside the photos or images) creates chaos and will drive a novice away. If multiple main colors are desired make sure they do not clash. Avoid colors that will draw the eye away from the content. White letters need to be BOLD and at least 15px in size for dark backgrounds and 20 to 25px for lighter backgrounds to be readable.

Misc. Notes No tabs or picture boxes to select, just a simple "select a bullet" approach. After all, bullets are just round tabs. This approach is not limited to the minimal spacing available within the tabs and also limits the "wordy" aspects of too much information. Concise statements (or one/two word "directions") so quick decisions by the user can be made.

Also note that since this would be a wiki template (the image map adjusts to the image size) it can be sized to fit either the current 640px page or any future page size.

Progress through a series of similar picture hubs to get to page of interest. If (in this case) there are 7 bullets, each with 7 bullets then that is 49 target pages. One level deeper would result in 73 or 343 target pages within 3 mouse clicks. Do not worry how deep the hubs have to go because the user will bookmark their final destination anyway. It is just a mechanism to get them there in the first place or if they lost their bookmark, how to get back there again.

Simple navigation with minimal reading to find your way (go quickly from A -&gt; B -&gt; C -&gt; D)

Hub construction

Construction is simple and efficient. A PowerPoint template could be made available which would provide the option to change a "standardized" square picture (cropped square) to a bullet hub picture.

The text, the number of bullets (four to eight), the size of the bullets and the text, the colors (plus transparency) of the text or bullets, and the image (or multiple images) can easily be modified within a particular PowerPoint template design (after creating a duplicate image to preserve the template).

The image is "Saved As" and then called up for cropping using the windows editor (Paint) for a simple crop of the right side to make a square picture. Save and then done. Ready to upload.

The template design (number of bullets and their size) would be interchangeable with the standardized wiki template containing the image map so very few image maps would have to be made. One for each bullet count and an additional one if the bullet size is changed.

Just copy the code from an existing wiki template (lets say a 7 bullet picture) and save as a new template after changing the image link and the bullet links. Easy (easy?).

Progression display (site map) from “Main page”

I just started this list so PLEASE ADD INFO to the list below if I missed something. A WORK IN PROGRESS

“New to genealogy?”


 * Hub: Getting started


 * Getting started (Basic Wiki Navigation)
 * Genealogy Basics (terminology)
 * Start collecting family info
 * Storing the information (select software)
 * Photographs and Documents (copy and preserve)
 * Learning research principles (wiki + records collections)
 * Things you can try
 * Get others involved

“New to the wiki?”


 * Hub:What is the Wiki


 * About the Wiki (history, governance, Wiki Support)
 * Setting your preferences (custom versus default)
 * Editing in the Wiki (editor types: wikitext, VisualEditor, rich editor)
 * Advanced navigation (basics + sidebars, hubs, categories, etc)
 * Using the search engine (filters) + searching categories
 * How to use the Wiki Help files (link to Hub:Help content?)
 * User page and playing in a sandbox (+ add sandbox pages &amp; archiving)
 * Watching pages (from menu tab or during edit saves)
 * Using “Talk” pages + (use the "help me" template if stuck)
 * Uploading images (copyrights) + (what to include if uploading images)
 * Categorizing (searching and adding a category to articles)
 * How to report issues (fixes) (using "talk" or "submit")
 * Review the"Known Issues" page before submitting a case for tech
 * Dos and Don’ts Revoew

“Want to help?”


 * Hub: Volunteers


 * Things you can do
 * Join a team project (Research projects or Support projects)
 * Contribute to the wiki (add content/citations or "fix/submit")
 * Join groups (Meet and Talk - attend committee meetings)
 * Provide input (to area projects, create articles, enhance content)


 * Research projects
 * Inside the Wiki (WikiProjects)
 * State projects
 * County projects
 * Barn-Raising projects
 * Adopt a page
 * Specialty projects (nationalities, ethnic groups, Native Americans. etc)
 * FamilySearch digital collections
 * International projects (England, Denmark, Mexico, Sweden, etc)
 * Outside the Wiki
 * Billion Graves
 * Find a grave
 * |David Rumsey Map Collection
 * USGenWeb
 * FamilySearch Indexing (projects by country)
 * Wiki Support projects
 * Fix or submit projects (clean up)
 * Enhance content (upgrade or update)
 * Add new content (articles or sections)
 * Translations (to and from English)
 * Categorizing (articles and photos)
 * Expand Help content
 * Join Wiki Support Team (patrolling, approving images, etc.)
 * How to participate (IS THIS THE SAME AS "THINGS YOU CAN DO"?)
 * Join Wiki Support Team (patrolling, approving images, etc.)
 * How to participate (IS THIS THE SAME AS "THINGS YOU CAN DO"?)
 * How to participate (IS THIS THE SAME AS "THINGS YOU CAN DO"?)


 * Research Groups (join)
 * Meet and Talk (contact)
 * ask questions ( to project leaders, to anyone! )
 * meetings (Community support, Contributors, Technical)
 * Ask for an invitation to Yammer
 * Participate at GetSatisfaction
 * Your input is wanted (provide information)
 * Provide local information for area projects
 * Update articles (links, style, content, images, etc)
 * Create new articles (start new or expand of existing)
 * Your input is wanted (provide information)
 * Provide local information for area projects
 * Update articles (links, style, content, images, etc)
 * Create new articles (start new or expand of existing)

From the SIDEBAR


 * Hub: Wiki Support


 * What is Wiki Support
 * About the Wiki
 * Support Role
 * Community governs
 * Wiki Policies
 * Guiding Principles
 * Volunteers Wanted
 * The Support Center
 * SubHub:Support Center
 * Team
 * Meetings
 * Maintenance
 * Assignments
 * Projects
 * Reports
 * Training
 * Talk with us (use "submit" form)


 * Hub: Wiki Community
 * New to genealogy
 * New to the Wiki
 * Contributor help
 * Research help
 * Committees
 * Project Meetings
 * Societies and Libraries
 * Research help
 * Committees
 * Project Meetings
 * Societies and Libraries
 * Project Meetings
 * Societies and Libraries
 * Societies and Libraries
 * Societies and Libraries

Miscellaneous


 * Hub: Help content


 * Getting started (navigation)
 * Using search (filters)
 * Searching categories (category, files, templates)
 * Advanced navigation (using Sidebars and Hubs)
 * Special pages
 * Using the wiki editors (wiketext, rich editor, VisualEditor -future)
 * add images
 * add tables
 * add citations
 * copy and paste
 * Editing pages
 * Etiquette (do not edit other user pages - use the talk page)
 * User pages (not the same rules as articles)
 * copying code from other pages
 * copy tables
 * copy parameters
 * internal versus external links
 * image map editor (create)
 * Creating new pages
 * Appropriate content
 * Guidelines and Policies
 * Manual of Style
 * Use template to mark :In-progress (relinquish article when done)
 * categorizing a page
 * Selecting best categories
 * Creating a category or subcategory
 * Learn HTML and wikitext (Lessons 1-7)
 * Reporting abuse
 * Types of abuse (Neutrality, Commercial, Offensive, Immoral)
 * Discuss on Talk page
 * Mark pages/content with templates
 * ASAP Deletion Request
 * Reporting abuse
 * Types of abuse (Neutrality, Commercial, Offensive, Immoral)
 * Discuss on Talk page
 * Mark pages/content with templates
 * ASAP Deletion Request
 * ASAP Deletion Request

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