FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProjects Seeking Contributors

Projects seeking contributors

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FamilySearch Wiki:Naming Conventions for Project Pages In order to make project pages easier to find, follow the standardized project naming conventions:
 * 1) The name of the project should begin with the word "FamilySearch Wiki" and followed by a colon :
 * 2) After the colon type the word "WikiProject"
 * 3) The type the name of the project. Example: FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah
 * 4) Be sure to add the new project to the list below, under the subject heading that is related to the new project:

Historical Records Wiki Pages

 * FamilySearch Records -- add content to articles describing collections on FamilySearch Historical Records

Idaho

 * Idaho -- adding content to the county pages of Idaho

Indians of North America Project

 * Indians of North America

Southern US Rural Records Project

 * Rural Records of the Southern United States

US Vital Records Project

 * FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject U.S. Vital Records

Canada Projects

 * Nothing right now

South America Projects

 * Nothing right now


 * Julian and Gregorian calendars is a stub that needs fleshing in.
 * The Barbour Collection is a small article that needs lots of improvement!

Europe Projects

 * Sweden
 * Ireland Court Records
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Welcoming committee needs volunteers to welcome new contributors and help them get started in various ways. Also to help develop the guidance for committee members.
 * WikiProject Linking to Books in the BYU Family History Archives needs volunteers to link wiki pages to digitized county and state histories on the BYU Family History Archives site.
 * Professional Genealogists, a project to help professional genealogical researchers market their services for free on their user pages.
 * Integrating Place Standards Database with FamilySearch Wiki


 * The England Barn Raising project has launched! Tasks await English experts, wiki experts, and volunteers willing to help with routine editing. Anyone willing to help can sign up now.


 * WikiProject Maryland News and Events needs volunteers to find genealogical news and events relating to Maryland and link to them from the News and Events section of the Maryland Portal.


 * Denmark has several individual projects that need volunteers to help with expanding and improving content about Danish research.


 * Link wiki articles mentioning the Periodical Source Index to the main PERSI article.

Portals to un-portals

 * Portals to un-portal pages All portal pages on the wiki need to be converted to un-portal pages. Questions can be directed to Laralee

Copy Old FamilySearch Content

 * Copying Research Guidance and Help Content from FamilySearch.org into the Wiki.