Help:Wiki University Missionary Tutorial

Lesson structure

 * This is a set of short lessons to teach you what you need to know to be an effect missionary in the FamilySearch Wiki.
 * The lessons are designed to help you learn you responsibilities as a Wiki missionary in small easy to digest bites.
 * The exercise and/or questions at the end of each lesson are designed to help you learn how to apply the principles taught in the lessons. Please do not pass them up.
 * They will help you to assimilate the knowledge necessary for you to edit and/or add content to FamilySearch Wiki.
 * The left sidebar will give you some idea of the items we will cover in these Wikitext lessons.

What is a FamilySearch Wiki support missionary?
The Wiki Support Team's assignment is to keep the Family Search Wiki orderly, useful and up to date. There are many duties that help us support the Wiki. The following are some of the major duties.


 * Check all new additions to the Wiki, and all the additions to pages.
 * Answer questions from patrons, contributors and other missionaries and volunteers.
 * Review, edit and organize many pages, files, images, talk pages, categories, and templates to keep them up to date and clean of non-research materials.
 * Teach new missionaries, each other and other groups about the Wiki.
 * Create, organize, and follow through to the completion projects that improve the order of the Wiki.
 * Projects come in all levels from very simple (and sometimes boring) to more complicated requiring some knowledge of Wikitext and/or HTML programming languages.
 * Work as a team to discuss ways to help improve the Wiki.

Sandbox page

 * If you have not done so already, please create a sandbox page you can practice your wikitext lessons.
 * To create a sandbox page for practicing enter this into the search box: "user:your user name/sandbox/name of page you want to practice your wikitext"
 * For example " User:johnsmith/sandbox/wikitext homework ".


 * After you have typed in the name you want for your sandbox practice page, hit the enter key or click search icon on left side of search box.
 * A list will then appear and your entry will appear at the top of the list in red, The red just means that your sandbox page has not been created yet.
 * Click on that "red link," and an blank edit box will appear with the name of the sandbox page you just created displayed at the top.
 * As soon as you enter something in the edit box and save it, it will be a permanent page.
 * This will be the place to save your homework to refresh your memory when needed from time to time.

Try these out
 Quick Quiz
 * What is our main responsibility as Wiki Missionaries?
 * A. Make sure information added to the Wiki is appropriate.
 * B. Work as a team.
 * C. Edit out useless information.
 * D. All of the above


 * We are not responsible for the following:
 * A. Language use by patrons in the articles.
 * B. The truthfulness of the information added.
 * C. Questions asked by patrons.
 * D. None of the above


 * Projects are only the highly trained missionaries.
 * True
 * False

Check your answers