FamilySearchWiki:WikiProject: Updating Societies Pages for 2021 and Caribbean Countries

Project Leader
Heather Mecham

Purpose
Updating and creating pages for Societies pages.

Task List
Task List

Sample Pages
Costa Rica Societies Atkinson County, Georgia Genealogy

Training Video
[Training Video]

Part 1: Set Up a Sandbox
1. Open a sandbox and copy and paste the code below into the sandbox. == Genealogical Societies == NAME OF SOCIETY ADDRESS LINE 1 ADDRESS LINE 2 ADDRESS LINE 3 ADDRESS LINE 4 ADDRESS LINE 5 email: Website: [URL NAME OF SOCIETY]

Additional Resources
2. Click save.

Part 2: Select a Country
1. Go to the task list. 2. Put you name in the name column on the same line as the country you want to work on. 3. Click the name of the country and it will take you to the existing socities page in the Wiki for your country.

Part 3: Review the Current Wiki Page
1. Review the information on the Wiki page. 2. Check for headings that do not contain any information. We will address that starting in Part 5. 3. Click each link and check to make sure it still works. Broken links should be removed. 4. Look for message boards that are listed in place of genealogical societies. We will move these to the correct place in Part 5. 5. Check for any naked links that need to be named. We will fix those in Part 4.

Part 4: Move Resources to the Sandbox that Belong on the Page
1. Move each society/resource to the sandbox one at a time. Leave out any broken links. We will address those in Part 5. 2. Entries with naked links, need to be fixed. You can fix them by copying and pasting the code below into your sandbox. [URL NAME OF SOCIETY] 3. Paste the URL for the society in place of the code you copied and pasted. 4. Replace the words NAME OF SOCIETY in the code you copied and pasted with the name of the society. 5. Any message boards can be moved from the Genealogical Societies heading to the Additional Resources Heading. 6. Reformat the message board entries using the following code. *[URL WEBSITE NAME Message Board for COUNTRY NAME] 7. Copy the URL of the message board and paste it into the code. 8. Replace WEBSITE NAME with the name of the site where the message board is hosted. 9. Replace COUNTRY NAME with the name of the the country. See below for example.
 * My Heritage Message Board for Costa Rica

Part 5: Update the Genealogical Societies Section
1. Google search for any societies with broken links.