FamilySearch Wiki:New Contributors Training

WHEN: Thursday 2:00 - 3:00 MST (4:00 - 5:00 EST)
The first part of the meeting is training on a scheduled topic. The last part of the meeting is open for personalized help with questions you may have, or with projects you may be working on. Current Wiki news and concerns may also be discussed.

WHERE: Online with MeetingPlace
MeetingPlace ID 5858 Link to Meeting or call 801 240-2663 (toll-free 877-453-7266), then follow the prompts.

PURPOSE: Support &amp; Collaboration

 * 1) If you have experience with family history but are new to using the Wiki, this meeting is for you! You may receive support in contributing to the Wiki, which helps others with direction in their personal research.
 * 2) Project leaders with Wiki projects may find these meetings a good place to meet and recruit team members for your projects. New users will learn about the Wiki from you and other members of your project team.
 * 3) The Family history community naturally reaches out to mentor and share our knowledge and sources with each other. As we do this, we experience the support of collaboration and the sweetness of success. Working together, we will find our ancestors!

Scheduled Topics:

 * 1) Registering; signing in; setting your preferences; understanding the navigation bar; Community guidelines; Forums; MeetingPlace tips
 * 2) Editing pages using the Rich Text/FCK editor and the standard editor; intro to Wikitext; setting up your User page; watching pages and understanding the Watched Pages e-mail; using Talk pages
 * 3) Creating and editing links; setting up your Sandbox (a subpage) and linking back to your User page; signing your name; IE browser tips
 * 4) The Table of Contents (TOC); heading levels; advanced searching; types of pages, including special pages
 * 5) Copying and pasting – from within the Wiki, from other Web sites including Wikipedia
 * 6) Copying and pasting – from Microsoft Office Word, from OpenOffice.org Writer; running OpenOffice from a flash drive
 * 7) Uploading images and files; placing images and files and their thumbnails in an article; roles in the Wiki
 * 8) Creating and adding tables; using templates, infoboxes, and userboxes; adding References/Citations to an article
 * 9) Understanding Wiki namespaces; creating and naming a new page; splitting an article; renaming, moving, and redirecting articles
 * 10) Combining articles; deleting articles; understanding and adding Categories to articles

*These dates are subject to change.

Past Meetings
To review the recording of a previous meeting, click MeetingPlace Select Find a Meeting (ID 5858), enter the date (or date range -- such as From: Jan 1, 2011 To: current date), and click Search. Scroll down and select the meeting.