User:Wonghk3/Sandbox/WU-Contributors -- Personal Pages

Head of Household
Image goes here
President:	President's name
Address:	Business Address
Phone:	Cell phone
Hours Open:	Hours Open

Contributor Lessons

1. HOME
2. What is the Wiki?
3. Anatomy of a Wiki Page
4. Your Personal Pages
5. Editing the Wiki
6. Getting Help

<< Previous Chapter

Next Chapter >>

My personal space

As a new contributor to the Wiki, we invite you to create and use the following pages for yourself:

• User: a page to create a personal profile or introduction of yourself as a FamilySearch Research Wiki contributor.
• User talk: a page to ask questions and receive help from the Research Wiki Support staff.
• A special Sandbox: a page that contains an easily accessible table of contents of all your sandbox pages.
• Sandbox workareas: pages you can create as workareas for your projects.
  
  

- The sections below will provide instructions on HOW TO CREATE each of these types of pages. - In all cases, you must be logged in to the FamilySearch Research Wiki, else you will not be allowed to edit. - None of the pages that you create or modify will affect any of the Wiki articles. - Here is a mini-video that provides a simple demonstration: [place link to VIDEO 2 here]

The USER page

• login to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
• in the Wiki search box (top right hand corner) enter the following: User:yourusername, then click enter.

- NOTE: change "yourusername" to your "FamilySearch login name".

• press the [Create source] tab to create a new page.
• add information to introduce yourself.
• scroll down and type "Created my USER profile page" into the [Summary] box.
• click on the [Save changes] button to save your User page.

The User talk page

• login to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
• go to your newly created User page, then press the [Talk] tab.
• add a new topic by pressing the link [Start a new talk topic] or by pressing the [Add topic] tab.
• enter your question or comments, then click on [Save changes] to save the page.
  
  

- This is the page you can create if you need specific help. The Wiki support team will respond to the messages you post here. - Beware: All Wiki Article pages contain a "Talk" tab. - Comments added to an Article talk page, specifically pertains to that article. - While an Article talk page is created the same way, it is a different page than the User talk page.

A Special Sandbox

• login to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
• in the Wiki search box, enter the following: User:yourusername/Sandbox, then click enter.

- NOTE: change "yourusername" to your "FamilySearch login name".

• click on the [Create source] button.
• copy and paste this code {{Special:PrefixIndex/User:yourusername}} onto the first line of the coding box.

- NOTE: change "yourusername" to your "FamilySearch login name".

• copy and paste this code [[Category:Sandbox]] onto the second line of the coding box.
• scroll down and type "Created my HOME sandbox page" into the [Summary] box.
• click on [Save changes] to save your page.
  
  

- You can quickly access your "table of contents" by clicking on the link named "Sandbox" found on the top right hand corner of your page below the ?Help button. - Alternatively, you can access it by clicking on the "Personal Sandbox" link found under "Edit the Wiki" in the gray Research Wiki sidebar to the left of the page. - A longer way to access the page is by entering "User:yourusername/Sandbox" in the Wiki search box.

Sandbox Workareas

• login to the FamilySearch Research Wiki.
• in the Wiki search box, enter the following: User:yourusername/Sandbox/workareaname, then click enter.

- NOTE: change "yourusername" to your "FamilySearch login name".

- NOTE: the "workareaname" can be any short, descriptive name YOU choose to use.

• if you are editing using Visual Editor, click on the [Create] button; if you are a Wikitext Editor, click on the [Create source] button.
• add the new information you desire.
• add a category named Sandbox to the bottom of the page (after your newly added information).
• add a [Summary] describing changes made to your sandbox, then [Save] your page.
  
  

- You can create as many workarea sandboxes as you desire as long as they contain a different "workareaname". - We normally create a sandbox for each project we work on if that project calls for using a workarea. - All sandboxes must contain the [[Category:Sandbox]] - TO EDIT A SANDBOX using Visual Editor, click on the [edit] button; if you are a Wikitext Editor, click on the [edit source] button.

<< Previous Chapter

Next Chapter >>