FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Ideas

Provide context
When we link from one topic to another (alternative) topic, people need context so they know why they were linked to this topic. Example: linking to Census from Birth, people need some explanation of what birth info they will find in censuses.

Tip Bank
What do you think of providing a tip or two under a topic. Example under Birth: "Birth records for children may give information about the parents."

And what about a link to a "Tip Bank" page that grows.

Table at top of page

 * Top of County experimental page: How can we improve it, to be more inviting, informative, and effective? What still needs to be done, before we can go forward with this on each county page? Comments from the meeting:
 * Overall: everyone liked it. One was concerned that the table of contents was too large and the maps were lost, but we realized my page was enlarged to almost 200% and inhibiting the real view.
 * Colors: OK. One liked the gold for the highlighted sources.
 * Border:liked the heavy border around the table.
 * Wording: the third section was called "Records in the spotlight" During the meeting this was changed to "Remember these collections"
 * Information in each section: Top two OK. Third section: remove word "statewide" since they were all Utah collections. Suggested that both the State of Utah and the FamilySearch death certificates be linked. Also, perhaps a link to the Utah Vital Records#Death be made in that section. (Wilma will try to word this so it all still takes only 2 lines) Perhaps the word (more) linked to the appropriate place. AdkinsWH 04:25, 8 February 2012 (UTC) Done
 * Remember these collections needs to have room for unique and important county collections. AdkinsWH 04:25, 8 February 2012 (UTC) Notice the LOC link to Beaver newspapers
 * Needed for rollout: Dates for the top section will need to be adapted. Parent and neighboring counties will have to be copied (they exist already in every county). Each county will need to have headings for Birth, Marriage, and Death added, if they are not already there.
 * Some will done generically such as links in the top section will probably change automatically with the PAGENAME template.

Links to FHL and Allen County Public Library catalogs

 * Links to FHL and Allen County Public Library catalogs. See different looks, adapt. Discuss this before we implement everywhere. Decisions from meeting:
 * Since the link to the county results in a random list of items, and not a list of topics, it won't serve users to have a link to the county for the ACPL catalog. The person doing the task will need to go to the county and make a list of topics the entries will fit, then put ACPL links under each of those topics. Similar to the FHLC links, except that the person will need to make that topic list themselves.
 * Having a link under Libraries in each county seems not right. Link instead to the state page where all of these are listed.
 * Include Public Lib, DUP, SUP, others in the county, (WA: get the list from the experimental county page) and then send them to the state page, where they can do their own searching.
 * WorldCat was also discussed. Liz Snow will check if it includes public libraries, which would be more useful to many of our users than only university libraries. We will need to teach them effective searching if it is listed.

Study of Utah Death Certificates
Example, Patsy said a study needs to be made to see if Wayne County is under-reported in utah death certificates.