User:Carlyannbagley/sandbox19

Colonial Records Project for Underserved Countries
Project Leader: Carly Bagley Task List: Task List Examples: Egypt colonial records page example Ghana colonial records page example Malta colonial records page examples Purpose: To create colonial records pages for each country of the world. You will need to find information for how to access these records. You will use a lot of your best judgement to make these pages better. Please reach out anytime you have questions or have difficulties knowing where to place information.

Creating a Colonial Records page
1. Go to your country's page. 2. Select Edit source. 3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select (edit) right next to Template:County-sidebar 4. We are going to add a new Colonial Records topic page to each of the countries. Scroll until you find the section for Record Types. You should find some coding that looks like this: | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background: #C8C8C8; font-size:14pt"|Record Types It may not look exactly like this because not all countries have the same topic pages. That's okay, just add Colonial Records where it fit's alphabetically. Since this is for Egypt's colonial records, you will copy this code: *Colonial Records And then paste it under Egypt Civil Registration so that it looks like this: | colspan="2" style="text-align:center; background: #C8C8C8; font-size:14pt"|Record Types (You may have to move one bullet point to the other column so they are even. In this case, we had to move Military Records to the next column.) 5. Select Save changes 6. The link in the sidebar for Colonial Records will be red. Click on the link. 7. Your page will look like this (now you can start editing on this page):
 * style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * Church Records
 * Civil Registration
 * Military Records
 * style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * Online Records
 * Religious Records
 * Religious Records
 * style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * Church Records
 * Civil Registration
 * Colonial Records
 * style="vertical-align:top; width:50%"|
 * Military Records
 * Online Records
 * Religious Records
 * Religious Records

Editing your page
Make sure you write in the description whether it was colonized, a protectorate, or if the other just country occupied it. And any other special circumstances.