User:Caileigholdroyd/Sandbox/Latin America Parish Page Instructions

Project Leader
Caileigh Oldroyd

Purpose
Adding content to the Latin American parish pages in the English Wiki.

Websites

 * Catholic Hierarchy for histories

Part 1 - Adding Alternate Names
1. To add alternate names, look under column D, "Alt Names". 2. Add the alternate names in bullet form. Each name is separated by a comma on the spreadsheet.

Example:
 * Santo Cristo de Esquipulas de la Agonía
 * Santo Cristo de la Agonía
 * La Agonia (Santo Cristo de Esquipulas)
 * La Agonia
 * Iglesia La Agonia

Part 2 - Adding Histories
1. First copy this sentence and add it under the "History" subheading on the parish page. 

PARISHNAME is in the Diocese of DIOCESENAME within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the neighborhood of NEIGHBORHOOD, district of DISTRICT, canton of CANTON, and province of PROVINCE.

2. Fill in the information. Diocese name is under column E, "Diocese" Location information is in column B.
 * The location column has the information in reverse order of what is presented below. Some may not have a district or neighborhood. It is okay to fill in just what is on the spreadsheet. Just take out the jurisdictions it doesn't have. 
 * Alajuela, Alajuela, Sarapiquí 
 * Alajuela is the Province, Alajuela is the Canton, and Sarapiquí is the District. 

This example would look like this on the page: 

San Miguel Arcángel is in the Diocese of Ciudad Quesada within the Metropolitan Archdiocese of San José de Costa Rica. Administratively it is part of the district of Sarapiquí, canton of Alajuela, and province of Alajuela.

3. Check Catholic Hierarchy for a history of the parish's diocese (diocese is found in column E).
 * The history or the diocese is under "Historical Summary" and in table format.



4. Copy this sentence and put it after the first sentence you populated. Then add the information from the table to the sentence.

The DIOCESENAME was EVENT on DATE from FORMERDIOCESENAME. Records kept at the parish level likely stayed within the parish, but records made before EVENTYEAR may be housed in another archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

Here is an example with the information filled in:

The Diocese of Ciudad Quesada was erected 25 July 1995 from the Diocese of Alajuela and the Diocese of Tilarán. Records kept at the parish level often stayed within the parish, but records made before 1995 in a defunct parish may be housed in another diocesan archive depending on how they decided to keep the records.

5. Edit the paragraph as needed to fix grammar.

Part 3 - Parish Records
Some parishes may have a table that needs to be put under the subheading "Record Availability" after the bullet points. 1. Copy the portion of the task list for the parish that needs a table added to its page. 2. Open the website, Excel2Wiki. 3. Paste in the copied data from the Excel file in the large box on the page. 4. Make sure these four boxes are checked before moving to the next step: 5. Once you have clicked the options, click on the Convert blue button. 7. The program will create wikitext for the table you added. 8. Copy the wikitext found in the box by highlighting the information with your mouse, then holding down the "Ctrl" key and the "C" key once. (Or, left-click on the mouse and select, "Copy") 9. Return to the parish page you wish to put this Excel table and click on the tab, "Edit the source." Then, paste the information into the page under the subheading "Record Availability" after the bullet points 10. Click "Show Preview" and make sure everything looks good. 11. Click "Save Changes" with "Latin America Parish Page Project" as the summary.
 * The parishes that need a table will have a yellow highlight over the columns Record Type, Dates, Historical Records, and Explore Images. It will look like this on the task list:
 * This example would be for the parish page of Nuestra Señora del Pilar
 * Follow the instructions below on how to turn this portion of the Google Sheet into wikitext
 * Click Format first row as header:
 * Click class="wikitable":
 * Click "sortable"
 * Click "Format first column as header"

Example of what it will look like on the page: