User:JensenFA

Getting Started Page; Family History for Beginners; Contributors Page; Moderators Page; Administrators Page

= Policies and Procedures =

This section will document the ongoing development of the Wiki policies and procedures and link to the documentation pages. The table below helps to visualize the policies and procedures that are already in place and those that need further development:

Policies and Guidelines

 * FamilySearch Wiki Policies
 * Guiding Principles

Content Standards Policies

 * Neutral point of view
 * Verifiability
 * No original research
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Naming conventions

Content Standards Guidelines

 * Conflict of interest
 * Do not use overly lengthy quotes
 * Disambiguation
 * Do not create hoaxes
 * Patent nonsense
 * Reliable sources
 * User page

Behavioral Standards

 * Bots
 * Civility
 * Editing policy
 * No legal threats
 * No personal attacks
 * Ownership of articles
 * Sock puppetry
 * Three-revert rule
 * User accounts
 * Vandalism

Templates

 * Template:Details


 * Fran, I noticed this link and its reference to an image and Template:Template doc. I do not know if you have noticed, but I have done a bunch of stuff dealing with templates and more specifically the documentation. I have submitted an image for approval and Jim Greene is checking into whether that can be approved or not. Anyway, I thought I would bring this to your attention. Thomas Lerman 23:11, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the update. I knew you were working on the Documentation template. What is the status now? What other templates besides Documentation are you working on?

Banning and Blocking

 * Banning and blocking - This describes who can ban or block and how.

Deletion Requests

 * Maintenance Templates - Delete
 * Moderating the deletion of pages

Disambiguation

 * Design and implement Disambiguation.

Editing

 * Design and implement Editing best practices. See Wikipedia How to edit a page for ideas
 * Design and implement the usage of the Summary field to be used when editing content. Include a suggested list of abbreviations because the field is limited to 250 characters. See Wikipedia Edit summary legend and Edit summary legend/Quick reference
 * Define difference between minor edits and major edits with the corresponding best practice.
 * Why is the "minor edit" check box on all pages automatically checked. Why is this the default? This needs to be changed.
 * Design and implement arbitration
 * Design and implement content disputes policies and procedures. (See Wikipedia:Dispute Resolution)

Flagging

 * Design and implement simplified way to add a maintenance flag to an article or a single section of an article in the Wiki. See Flagging for documentation
 * Maintenance Templates - This page lists all maintenance flags that have already been implemented.

Image Approval

 * Re-design and implement Image approval processes.

Moderating Role

 * Design and implement Moderator role and vetting practices.

Neutral Point of View

 * Neutral Point of View - this is a brief description that also links to Wikipedia
 * Maintenance Templates
 * Template:Pov

Patrolling

 * Re-design and implement Patrolling procedures.

Redirects

 * Edit and Contribute - Does this page explain the policy or guideline for redirects?
 * Help:Renaming a page
 * Help:Redirects
 * Moderating the deletion of pages - explains the difference between delete and redirect

Roles

 * FamilySearch Wiki:Administrators (aka Sysops)
 * Portal:Moderation - do we really need moderators? Wikipedia only has Administrators/Sysops, not moderators.

= Maintenance Flag Monitoring =


 * Category:Deletion Requests - immediate action is needed
 * Category:Copyright problems - one week requirement
 * Category:Neutrality disputes - two week requirement
 * Category:Articles needing citations - discussion needed before implementation
 * Category:Not English - move pages to language wiki if available
 * Category:Outdated articles - flag remains until fixed
 * Category:Ambiguous page title - flag remains until fixed
 * Category:Merge articles - flag remains until fixed

= Sprint Tasks =

Sprint 13

 * Barn Raising: US barn raising to improve History pages that were added last sprint. The pages are tracked on the Reference Documents table located at US content in FamilySearch Research Guidance and Help - pressing forward full steam ahead!!!
 * Barn Raising: Canadian barn raising to improve History pages that were added last sprint. The pages are tracked on the Reference Document table located at Canadian content in FamilySearch Research Guidance and Help - on hold
 * Barn Raising: Evaluate FamilySearch step-by-step statewide indexes for inclusion into Wiki - with Joan but on hold. Waiting for Michael to make a prioritization decision.
 * Barn Raising: Begin planning and preparation for the Glossary barn raising next Sprint
 * Barn Raising for Utah: Take Utah portal page out of the portal design and into a regular page design
 * Barn Raising: Begin planning and preparation for a Utah barn raising.
 * Barn Raising for Utah: incorporate the Utah prime meridian photograph I took to the Utah land records page
 * Barn Raising: Continued work on previous barn raisings to further enhancement of content by adding FamilySearch research guidance and research help content to the Wiki that I signed up for
 * Community Development: Enhance usage of the Community Portal
 * Policies and procedures: Administrator's workbench design and identify requirements
 * Policies and procedures: Read the Administrator's reading list
 * Policies and procedures: Three revert rule design and identify requirements
 * Policies and procedures: see also the research that Michael is doing this sprint: FamilySearch Wiki:How Community Governs Wikipedia
 * Ongoing: FamilySearch Blog 1 hour per week- done (added 'Record Search Success Story')

Sprint 12

 * Manage United States barn raising to add US Reference Documents on FamilySearch.org to the Wiki - done
 * Manage Canada barn raising to add Canadian Reference Documents to the Wiki- done
 * Redesign Getting Started page - done
 * German wiki integration - postponed by Anne

Other tasks outside of Sprint

 * FamilySearch Blog 1 hour per week- done
 * Update Utah History with content from Utah Historical Background - done
 * Manage FamilySearch Research Wiki Policies and Procedures

Sprint 11.5

 * Maryland Barn Raising Tasks - done
 * Task to Copy Research Guidance and Help Content - done
 * FamilySearch Blog 1 hour per week
 * Finding Genealogy News and Events within the United States - done
 * Community Portal - done

Possible Future Tasks

 * Add citations to all content originated from Research Outlines. See the Wales Biography as an example.

= Quick Links =


 * Category:FamilySearch Wiki
 * Category:Help
 * Getting Started Page
 * Family History for Beginners
 * Contributors Page
 * Moderators Page
 * Administrators Page
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Sources Consulted but Not Referenced

= Forums =

Steps to search for unanswered posts in a Forum:


 * 1) Click on North America
 * 2) Click on Search this Forum
 * 3) Click on Advanced Search
 * 4) In the Search Options section, change the first item, “Find Threads with” from “At Least” to “At Most”
 * 5) Leave the Replies at 0
 * 6) Click Search Now

= My Teams =

= My Sub-Pages =


 * User:Franjensen/what2do
 * User:Franjensen/Policy namespace
 * User:Franjensen/Research topics is an attempt to browse by topic.
 * User:Franjensen/Sandbox is my sandbox.
 * User:Franjensen/New Ways to Publish a Personal or Family History
 * User:Franjensen/Flagging
 * User:Franjensen/Mayflower
 * Follow up on this site or just plain clusty.com

= Wikipedia Help =


 * Wiki text markup articles: Wikipedia: How to edit a page and specifically the Wiki Markup section of the article.
 * Transclusion
 * Help Template
 * Template Messages
 * Template:Details - doesn't work yet. Need to figure out how to fix it.
 * ToDo template and list
 * Collaborations
 * Community portal

= Class on Creating Memory Books =


 * Writing Your Family and Personal History
 * Write a Family History
 * For Further Reading about writing a family history see the bibliography listed under the section titled "Writing a Family History."

= My Ancestors =

My ancestors were from Denmark, England, Germany, Ireland, and Scotland. After my ancestors immigrated to the United States they settled in California, Idaho, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, and Utah. My husband's ancestors were from Denmark, England, and various U.S. Southern States.