User talk:LakeCL

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I saw that you added text to a Discussion/Talk page and then removed the text. You added "what is this" and then blanked the page. Based on this activity, I assume you were trying to figure out what the Discussion pages are and what they are for. Based on that assumption, I thought it appropriate to share with you a little about the Discussion pages. All pages within the Wiki are associated with a Discussion page on a one-to-one relationship. When users have questions or comments related to an article, they typically add their comments to the Discussion page in an effort to communicate with the original author(s) prior to making changes. This is especially true when the user would like to make major edits to a page. There is a help article that describes the usage of the Discussion pages that I think will help: FamilySearch Wiki:Talk page guidelines. The FamilySearch Wiki:Editing page may also be helpful. If you have questions, please let me know. Thanks for all your contributions to the Wiki. I hope your continued use of the Discussion pages will be helpful as you participate in the Wiki community. --Fran 19:55, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

Linking between Record Search and Research Wiki
Chris, I see that you have been testing the link between the Record Search entry for England and Wales Census, 1841 and the England and Wales 1841 Census Population article in the wiki. I see that currently the link is working with the text string CID1493745 only included inside a template (does adding the same string here cause a problem?). Do you have more testing to do?

I'm interested to understand what is happening behind the scenes. I'm guessing the link in Record Search is referring to a database that is automatically created, by an spider/automatic indexer that crawls through the wiki article indexing instances of CIDxxxxxx. If that is the case I'm sure it takes some processing to keep the database up to date. As an alternative, have redirects been considered. For instance for each Record Search entry the About this Collection link could be coded to a specific wiki page in the format CIDxxxxxxx and then that page could be redirected to the fully titled article. --Steve 23:17, 18 February 2010 (UTC)


 * To read the reply and further discussion see User talk:Cottrells

New parameter in Record Search article template for the browse URL
Hi Chris, today I realised that the link the template was returning was not correct for collection that are browse images only, for example England Norfolk Church of England Parish Registers and Bishops’ Transcripts. To overcome this I have added a new parameter access which if omitted or set to anything other than access=browse will return the correct URL for the majority of collections. Setting the parameter to access=browse will change the URL so that it is appropriate for browse images only collections. --Steve 22:31, 26 March 2010 (UTC)

Thanks, I had not even noticed that problem. I will let the others on my team know.