FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject England

Welcome to the WikiProject England page! A focused community effort to create or revise content relating to a single topic.

Scope
Articles about England and England research topics. Ideally a child WikiProject could be set-up for each English County which would focus on articles for county level resources and the parishes within each county. Until these are created these are within the scope of this project. Some articles cover both England and Wales and so would also fall within the scope of WikiProject Wales.

Child WikiProjects

 * FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Dade Parish Registers
 * FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject English parishes

Contributors

 * Steve
 * Don

Tasks
Please volunteer to complete one or more tasks by adding your name to this list. Before you can add your name to the list below, Do this while viewing this page:


 * 1) click the "Edit" option located in the page options box to the right. This will open the "Editing" window.
 * 2) Select the task you wish to work on, then input three tildes in the "Sign Up..." column (the third column) across from the task description. (Do not type your name--the three tildes will automatically insert your username if you are logged in.)
 * 3) Go down to the bottom of the editing page, and click "Save Page" to save your changes.
 * 4) Make sure you share your thoughts on the project you're working on in your User page. Also share your thoughts on others' User pages.

More than one person may sign up to work on a given task. That way, those who sign up for a task can also communicate with each other on what they'ree doing.

Articles about Record Types

 * Census - County Census articles generally have links to FHLC entries about the parish - these are not census specific - idea rename these pages County FamilySearch Catalog results


 * Church Records - work has started on a series of articles explaining CofE Diocese
 * Civil Registration - add details/point to websites of county record offices
 * Poor Law - articles have been created at County level for Poor Law Unions - created articles for each specific PLU - use workhouse template to link to create links to external resource
 * Probate - WikiProject England/Probate Keys Migration

Wish List

 * Add suitable images/pictures to articles

Barn Raising February 2009
The following tasks were defined during the England Barn Raising in February 2009. Some of these articles came from the old England Research outline and need to be updated. This first table lists those topics that are part of this phase of the barn raising.

Simple tasks
Potentially, a large number of volunteers in the community may feel unqualified to write a 'how to' article on a subject of interest, but they are available to do simple tasks that support the writing of articles. This is the place to list and/or volunteer for those tasks! If you're a writer, here's where you can get some help. If you're a volunteer or community member, here's where you can give some!

Other England Pages to Update
Many of these articles came from the old England Research outline and need to be updated. This table lists all topics for all phases of England barn raisings. They are listed here to give you the opportunity to take a task even if all of those above are taken or none of them meet your interests. You may add tasks you think are needed or add a note to one you think is not needed for England.While these pages are not part of the February 2009 barn raising, they can be worked on at any time, and may be the focus for a future phase of England barn raisings.

England county pages to update
These pages should be written during the second phase of the barn raising.

Templates
I have noticed that the template "British Census" is being put on every parish page. Since I did not like the format of it I created 2 other census templates that add additional parameters. The templates is "Suffolk Census" and "British Census2" It has to be remembered that these templates are drafts and subject to change. I would question putting the template "British Census" on every page because if one parameter changes in the template every page will have to be visited again to make that unique change. It is poor judgement to think that every parish page in England needs this template. I had Steve take the time to put a link on every parish page in Suffolk to the Suffolk Census page. Now most of those links are gone, replace with this template. I do not think that the 500 parish pages in Suffolk need a link to ancestry.com, findmypast.com and the other websites in the census section of the page. There are pages created specifically that talk about these websites and it is easy to link to those pages. From what I see someone plans to put this specific template on the 10,000 parish page in England. The templates in question
 * Template:British Census
 * Template:British Census2
 * Template:Suffolk Census

Infoboxes

 * Infobox England Jurisdictions

Navboxes

 * England counties
 * England Archives and Libraries
 * England Research Guidance
 * Poor Law
 * Church of England dioceses

Categories

 * Category:WikiProject England
 * Category:WikiProject England articles
 * Category:England