FamilySearch Wiki:England Meeting 9 April 2014


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Kudos go to

 * Missionaries for work on Steve's infoboxes

Updates and follow up

 * Status on B2 missionaries identifying themselves on their user talk pages


 * The majority have identified themselves and included contact information.


 * Status on removing lines to online parish register abbreviation tables


 * Steve reports this should be completed for most parishes.


 * Infobox question -- Can the box handle multiple probate jurisdictions and dioceses? Example: Putney, Surrey


 * A new secondary parameter "Probate Other |" has been added to the infobox to handle probate jurisdictions.


 * Infobox question -- What about parishes for which a Wiki page exists, but that are not included on the spreadsheet and vice versa.


 * In this situation, the infoboxes will have to be created manually.


 * Census template: can we find and replace the "a." that precedes these templates on parish pages and blank them out? See Denton, Norfolk.


 * Steve taught Nathan how to do a "replace text" as an administrator and remove the "a."

Wiki Content

 * Should we keep census descriptions on pages such as Putney, Surrey?


 * Nathan is going to standardize and abbreviate the census descriptions.

Business/Announcements

 * Norfolk project


 * Steve recommended adding church photos from GeoGraph. Nathan contacted AngelofNorth who has done this in the past, but that user did not respond. We currently need a volunteer who is willing to do this.

New Agenda Items

 * Discussion on how to order headings on a parish page; what words should be included in the headings?


 * "Parish description" was preferred over "Parish history," but a final decision was not made for rewording this heading.


 * Some jurisdictions, such as the heading "Poor Law Unions" could be removed, because that information is identified in infoboxes now, but a final decision was not made regarding removing that section of the parish page.


 * Can we do a find and replace old teasers/seo paragraphs with the new one? Examples:

Old Guide to Acton, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers (baptism, christening, marriage, and burial records), civil registration (birth, marriage, and death records), census records, history, wills, cemetery, online transcriptions and indexes, an interactive map and websites.

New Guide to Acton, Cheshire family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.


 * The new seo paragraph was preferred and the old ones have now been switched out.

Steve requested we move the meeting information from the main project page to a subpage.


 * Nathan will do this.