FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Standardizing Breadcrumbs

Purpose
The purpose of the project is to standardize all breadcrumbs throughout the English Wiki

Contact
Jane Colmenares

Task List

 * US County Pages: Task List

Instructions For U.S. County Pages
1. Go to the Task List and sign up for state and a span of counties in that state to work on.

2. Copy the following template:

3. Go to the first wiki page you are to fix and click on “Edit Source” to go to wikitext.

4. Go to the very top of the wiki page and paste the template copied from above. It should be above the breadcrumb that is already on the page.

5. Now copy the first part of the breadcrumb already on the page and paste that link directly after “|link1=”  If you were working on a US county page, this should be the page for, United States Genealogy.

6. Go back to the original breadcrumb on the page, and copy the second link of the old breadcrumb.

7. Go back to the new template and paste the link directly after “|link2=” If you were working on a US county page, this should be the link for the state.

8. Continue to do this for all the supporting pages in the breadcrumb. Most of the time there are only 2 links before the name of the page (such as a US county). For some countries, there are 3 links before the name of the page (such as an English parish page).

9. For the last part of the breadcrumb, type in the name of the county directly after “|fontstyle=”. For example, if the county is Aurora County, South Dakota, type in Aurora County. Do not include the word "genealogy" after the name of the page. If it is a really long page, you can abbreviate to just the basic information of the page. For example, for the page, Felling Christ Church, Durham Genealogy, you would only put: Felling Christ Church.

10. Once the breadcrumb is created, go to the bottom of the page and click on "Show preview". Check the top of the page to make sure the new breadcrumb looks correct. It should look like this: EXAMPLE

11. If the breadcrumb looks correct, go back to the top of the page and delete the old breadcrumb. Be careful not to delete anything else on the page.

12. In the Edit Summary field, type in: Formatted breadcrumb and save the page.

13. Return to the task list and go to the next wiki page on your list.

SOME THINGS TO REMEMBER:
 * The breadcrumb should never include the word Genealogy on the page. If the old breadcrumb lists "genealogy" change the link so that just the locality appears in the breadcrumb.  For example you would change the old link, United States Genealogy to United States '''
 * If you are adding a template to a country page, the first breadcrumb should be the continent it is on. For the United States, the first breadcrumb is North America and then, the name of the page, United States.  HOWEVER, all subsequent locality pages for that country SHOULD NOT include North America in

Examples
County page: Autauga County, Alabama Genealogy State page :Alabama, United States Genealogy