FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Improving the Help content

The Help content in the Wiki is in need of evaluation and improvement. Help articles in the Wiki are all those articles that help contributors to the wiki know how to do all aspects of editing and contributing.

If you are interested in helping with this project, add your name to this list.

Help Content Tasks

Task	Assigned	Status
Reorganize "Entrance" page for all help	Jane	Complete!
Rename "Help:Edit and Contribute" to "Help:Contributor Help" and fix redirects		Complete!
Change links that go to this old portal page to the Tour? and fix the "what links here" - work with Steve Cottrell to do global find and replace. Can we delete that old portal page?		Complete!
Review and reorganize the Help category of links	LaVera
Fix Help articles so that they are all in the correct namespace	Jane	Complete!
Ensure all articles in the Help namespace are categorized correctly in accordance to #3 above	LaVera
Fix Help page: Help:Navigation	LaVera	Complete!
Review this page for potential additional help information

Support Content Needs

Task	Assigned	Status
Create Moderator Setup page	Averyld	Done
Update Help Pages	Parrisl

Current Help Content

Topic	Articles relating to this topic
Main Help Page	Help Edit and Contribute
Help:Navigation	Help:Navigation
Tour	Help:Tour
Editing
- Basic Editing	Help:Basic Editing   (replaced)
- Copy and Paste into a Wiki Page	Help:Copying and Pasting into a Wiki Page
- Simple Edits You Can Make	Help:Simple edits you can make
- Practice in Your Sandbox	Help:Practice editing in your Sandbox
- Edit Summarry	Help:Edit summary
- Edit Summary Legend	Help:Edit summary legend
- Editing Pages	Help:Editing pages   (replaced)
- The Editing Tool	Help:The Editing Tool (FCK Editor)
- Formatting	Help:Formatting
- Advanced Editing	Help:Editing a Page
- Advanced Editing with Wikitext	Help:Wiki markup
- Advanced: Copy Documents Into the Wiki	Help:How to Convert a Microsoft Office Document into Wiki Format
- Magic Words	Help:Magic words
Linking
- Links	Help:Links
- Adding Links	Help:Adding Links
- Linking to Wiki Pages	Help:Create an internal link
- Linking to Wiki Pages	Help:Basic Internal Linking
- External Link	Help:Create an external link
- Advanded Linking	Help:Advanced Linking
Citations
How to Add Citations	Help:How to add citations
Sources Consulted but not Referenced	Help:Sources Consulted but Not Referenced
- Source Citations	Help:Source Citations
Images
- Submitting Images	Help:Submitting images for approval
- Images	Help:Images
- Adding images to Articles	Help:Adding images to articles
- How to Edit and Resize Images	Help:How to Edit and Resize Images
- Using FHL Images	Help:Getting approval for Family History Library collection images to be used on FamilySearch Wiki
- Image Maps	Help:Image maps
Creating Pages
- Basic Page Naming	Help:Name a new article
- Creating a Page	Help:How to create an article
- Creating a Page	Help:Creating a Page
- Creating a New Linked Page	Help:Create a page linked from an existing page
- Creating a New Unlinked Page	Help:Create a page not linked from an existing page
- Creating a Society Page	Help:Creating a society page
- Starting a New Page	Help:Starting a new page
- Starting a New Article	Help:Starting an article
- How to Create Unportal Page	Help:How to Create an Un-Portal Page
Watching Pages
- Watch Page Changes	Help:Tracking changes
- Watchlist	Help:Watchlist
- How to Turn Notifications On	Help:How to turn notifications on
Categorization
- Categories	Help:Categories
- How to Categorize Pages	Help:Categorization
- Advanced Categorization	Help:Advanced categorization[1]
- Namespaces	Help:Namespaces
Tables
Basic Tables	Help:Adding basic tables to an article
Advanced Tables	Help:Tables
- Historical Population Chart	Help:Historical Population Chart
- Infoboxes	Help:Infobox
- Navboxes	Help:Navboxes
- Quick Date Box	Help:Quick Date Box
Renaming/redirecting
- Renaming a Page	Help:Renaming a page
- Redirecting a page	Help:Redirects
- Adding a Page to the Correct Namespace	Help:Namespaces
- Creating an UnPortal Page	Help:How to Create an Un-Portal Page
- Splitting Articles	How to Split Articles
Templates
- Quick Guide to Templates	Help:A quick guide to templates
- Templates	Help:Templates
- Maintenance Templates	FamilySearch Wiki:Maintenance Templates
- Contributor Userboxes	FamilySearch Wiki:Userboxes
- Record Type	Help:Record Type Template
New User Instructions
- How to Register with the Wiki	Help:How to Register with the Wiki
- User Pages	Help:User page
- Navigation	Help:Navigation
- Preferences	Help:Preferences
- Page History	Help:Page history
- Random Page	Help:Random page
- Recent Changes	Help:Recent changes
- Signatures	Help:Signatures
- Skins	Help:Skins
- New Users	FamilySearch Wiki:New users
- Notifications	Help:How to turn notifications on
- Special Page	Help:Special page
- Talk Pages	Help:Talk Pages
Adoption
- Adopt A Page	Help:Adopt-a-page
- Getting Started	Getting Started
- Quick Start Links	Quick Start Links
Archiving
- Archiving a Talk Page	Help:Archiving a talk page
Searches
- Basic Searches	Help:Basic Searches
- Searching	Help:Searching
- Search for Article or Topic	Help:Search for an article or topic
- Search Tips	Help:Search Tips
- Boolean Searches	Help:Boolean Searches in the Wiki
- External Searches	Help:External searches
Contact
- Contact FS	Contact FamilySearch
- Directory	Help:FamilySearch Support E-mail and Worldwide Telephone Directory
Contents
- Contents	Help:Contents
Miscellaneous
- Developing a US County Page	Help:Developing A U.S. County Page
- Diff	Help:Diff
- Did You Know Article	[[]]
- Finding ISBN Number	Help:Finding the ISBN number of a book
- Managing Files	Help:Managing files
- Protected Pages	Help:Protected pages
- Section	Help:Section
- Deleting a Page	Help:Deleting a page
Advanced Instructions
- How to Run/Manage a Wiki Project	Help:How to Run or Manage a Wiki Project
- Wiki Trainer	Help:Wiki_trainers
- Patrolled Edits	Help:Patrolled edits
- Protecting and Unprotecting Pages	Help:Protecting and unprotecting pages
- Range Blocks	Help:Range blocks
- Assigning Permissions	Help:Assigning permissions
- Sysops and Permissions	Help:Sysops and permissions
	Wiki Support/Foundation/Additional Notes
- Blocking Users	Help:Blocking users
-Bots	Help:Bots

FAMILYSEARCH WIKI POLICY REVIEW

While we will not be revising the following FSW articles, we will be reviewing them, looking for:

1. Information of a how-to nature that actually belongs in a Help article
   • When this is found, it will be noted on the talk page, and then after discussion (or after a week if there is no discussion) it will be removed to a Help article).
2. Help articles related to these articles
   • If Help articles are found, we will do interlinking between the articles
   • If Help articles are NOT found, they will be created as needed and then interlinking will be done.
3. Mirrored Maintenance Templates for the various policies.
   • The policies should be reviewed for whether or not a maintenance template should be created to go on articles to notify when policies are broken.

Topic	Articles Relating to Topic	Assigned
Support
- Support Responsibilities	Responsibilities and Projects
- Support Notes	Foundation/Additional Notes
Content
- Contributor Guidelines	FamilySearch Wiki:Contributor guidelines
- Attack Pages	FamilySearch Wiki:Attack pages
- Proper Content	FamilySearch Wiki:Proper Content
- Image Use	FamilySearch Wiki:Image use
- Verifiable	FamilySearch Wiki:Verifiable
- Sandbox	FamilySearch Wiki:About the Sandbox
- New Users	FamilySearch Wiki:New users
- Signatures	FamilySearch Wiki:Signatures
- Talk Page Guidelines	FamilySearch Wiki:Talk page guidelines
- User Page	FamilySearch Wiki:User page
Communication
- Civility	FamilySearch Wiki:Civility and Polite Discourse
- Be Kind	FamilySearch Wiki:Be kind to newcomers
- Personal Attacks	FamilySearch Wiki:No personal attacks
Governance / TOS
- Conditions of Use	FamilySearch Wiki:Terms of Use
- Image Approval Policies	FamilySearch Wiki:Image use
- Policies	FamilySearch Wiki:Policies
- Consensus	FamilySearch Wiki:Consensus
- Copyright	FamilySearch Wiki:Copyrights
- Disambiguation	FamilySearch Wiki:Disambiguation
- Guiding Principles	FamilySearch Wiki:Guiding Principles
- Moderator	FamilySearch Wiki:Moderator
- Libel	FamilySearch Wiki:Libel
- Ownership	FamilySearch Wiki:Ownership of articles
- Policies	FamilySearch Wiki:Policies
- Purpose	FamilySearch Wiki:Purpose and Appropriate Topics
- Vandalism	FamilySearch Wiki:Vandalism
Organization
- Help Namespace	FamilySearch Wiki:Help namespace
- Namespace	FamilySearch Wiki:Namespace
- Non English Wiki	FamilySearch Wiki:Non-English versions of the wiki

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HELP PAGES/LINKS NEEDING DEVELOPMENT

Topic	Articles Relating to This Topic	Assigned
Editing
- Minor Edit	Help:Minor edit
- Reverting	Help:Reverting Content to Previous Version
- Dummy Edit	Help:Dummy edit
- Quick Start Overview 1	Quick Start Overview 1: Major Features of the Wiki
- Quick Start Overview 3	Quick Start Overview 3: Registering with FamilySearch Research Wiki

NEW HELP PAGES DEVELOPED

Topic	Articles Relating to This Topic
Editing
- Wiki Cheatsheet	Help:Wikitext Cheatsheet
- Edit Summary Legend	Help:Edit summary legend
- New User Quickstart	Help:Wiki Basics
- Wiki Terminology	Help:Wiki Terminology
- Infobox	Help:Infobox
- Quick Date Box	Help:Quick Date Box
- Historical Population Chart	Help:Historical Population Chart
- Random Page Admin Settings	Help:Random Page Admin Settings

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