FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Word Lists

Purpose
Standardizing the Genealogical Word Lists to ensure that the words line up with their translations.

Task List
Task List

Instructions
This project fixes one of two problems: it turns lists of words into tables, and reformats tables where words are separated by breaks into the standardized table format.

Part A: Create Tables
1. From the Task List for creating tables select the word list you are working on.

2. Go to Alphabetical/General Wordlist, and click [edit source] after the letter A.

3. Insert the following table under "=== A ==="

4. At the top of the table, replace FOREIGN LANGUAGE with the name of the language of the word list (either Czech, Dutch, or Italian).

5. From the genealogical word list now below the table, copy the first foreign language word into the first FOREIGN WORD in the table.
 * For example, the first row in the Dutch Genealogical Word list reads

*aan - upon, to
 * You would then copy the word aan and paste it into the first FOREIGN WORD in the table
 * The table now looks like


 * aan
 * ENGLISH WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD

6. From the genealogical word list now below the table, copy the first english translation(s) of the foreign word into the first ENGLISH WORD in the table.
 * For example, the first row in the Dutch Genealogical Word list reads

*aan - upon, to
 * You would then copy the words upon, to and paste it into the first FOREIGN WORD in the table
 * The table now looks like


 * aan
 * upon, to
 * upon, to

7. Delete the row you just copied from the genealogical word list into the table.

8. Repeat the process with the following rows in the genealogical word list and the table.

9. If you need more rows in the table, insert the following into the table, before the final |} as many times as needed
 * FOREIGN WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD

10. Once you have added all of the words that begin with A, delete any blank rows from the table.
 * In wikitext, a row is made up of the following three lines:


 * FOREIGN WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD

11. Repeat with every section of letters in the word list.

Part B: Reformat Tables
1. From the Task List for reformatting tables select the word list you are working on.

2. Go to Alphabetical/General Wordlist, and click [edit source] after the letter A.

3. Insert the following table directly under "=== A ==="

This table will be referred to as Table 1.

4. At the top of the Table 1, replace FOREIGN LANGUAGE with the name of the language of the word list (either Latin or Spanish).

Looking at the pre-existing table, referred to as Table 2, you will notice that the words are separated into two large columns, with all of the foreign-language words following the first horizontal bar, "|", and the english translations following the second horizontal bar, "|". Each word is separated by breaks " ".

5. From Table 2, copy the first foreign word into the first FOREIGN WORD in Table 1.
 * For example, the first word in the Latin Genealogical Word List is "datum".
 * Table 1 now looks like


 * datum
 * ENGLISH WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD

6. From Table 2, copy the first english translation(s) of the foreign word into the first ENGLISH WORD in Table 1.
 * For example, the first word in the Latin Genealogical Word List is "datum".
 * Table 1 now looks like


 * datum
 * date, given
 * date, given

7. Delete the words you just copied from Table 2, including the that immediately follows the words.

8. Repeat the process with the following rows in the genealogical word list and the table.

9. If you need more rows in the table, insert the following into the table, before the final |} as many times as needed
 * FOREIGN WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD

10. Once you have added all of the words that begin with A, delete any blank rows from the table.
 * In wikitext, a row is made up of the following three lines:


 * FOREIGN WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD
 * ENGLISH WORD

11. Repeat with every section of letters in the word list.