FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Sweden Church Images and Parish Pages

Project Leader
Amber Larsen

Goal/Purpose
To enrich the parish pages for Sweden by adding pictures of the parish churches to each Swedish parish page in the FamilySearch Wiki. A researcher may go to a Swedish parish page looking for websites, place names, jurisdictional information, or databases, but these tools alone are simply text on a page. The purpose of adding pictures to the parish pages is to enrich the research experience by giving a visual glimpse of the ancestor’s life. Its fun and exciting to see a place where you know the ancestor visited often. This project also provides an opportunity for people who enjoy working with graphics.

Task List
Task List Google sheet

Step 1 - Locate Church Photo
1. Sign up for your desired set of churches on the task list. 2. Click on the link in the Diocese/Stift column for your span of churches. It will take you to a list of Sweden parishes/churches on WikiCommons. When on WikiCommons site, click on the first link within your span of churches. (An example parish is shown below) 3. After you have clicked on the link to a church, click on the photo that you think gives the best view of the outside of the church building (preferably in color if available). Ideally, we are looking for a photo that shows as much of the building as possible. 4. After you have clicked on the best photo, click on the blue More details button on the bottom right-hand side. 5. After you have clicked on More details, select and Copy the URL of the image details page. 6. Open this Google sheet and paste the URL into the WikiCommons Image URL colulmn.
 * NOTE: If no photos show the outside of the church building, you can just skip that church.

Tips
See the following articles for detailed explanations of uploading and file approval:


 * FamilySearch Wiki: Image use


 * Help:Uploading images and files


 * Help:Submitting images for approval