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FamilySearch Wiki
Finding Records for Your Research
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Getting and Giving Advice
Do you…• want to know where to find an ancestor?• want to know where the best, cheapest records
are? • ever tell people the stuff you’ve learned?
You can do it on FamilySearch Wiki!wiki.familysearch.org
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Today’s Lesson
• What’s a wiki?• Focus of FamilySearch Wiki• How people use the wiki• How edits spur quality• Projects & great content• Contributing
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What’s a Wiki?
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What’s a wiki?
• A Website anyone can edit.• In Hawaii, “wiki wiki” means “quick”
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Wikipedia: Community authoring
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Wikipedia: Community Authoring
1. 9th most popular Website2. Content written by community3. 3,000 new entries per day4. Most errors corrected in 5 mins.5. 11 edits per article
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About FamilySearch Wiki
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FamilySearch Wiki’s Main Focus
• Where to find records • How to use them
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How people use FamilySearch Wiki
• Get research guidance• Help others avoid my mistakes• Make friends• Leave a legacy• Gather information for a class• Reach a wider audience• Be part of something bigger than myself
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Organization: Locality Approach
1. Select a country.• Information about records for that country• States, counties, or parishes
2. Search• “United States”• “New York birth”• “[county] cemetery”
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Growth & Quality
1. Page edits spur quality2. Top contributors have 10k-15k edits/person3. 59,000 edits in 2009 (as of 7/29/09)
4. 7,500 characters/edit on average5. Top pages have 300-500 edits6. FHL research consultants investing 22,000
hours/year7. 2009 edits = 535,000,000 characters8. Don’t blink – you might miss something
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ContentWhat’s really great on the wiki?
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U.S. projects
1. Current projects (for all 50 states)• Federal and state Census• Vital (birth, marriage, death)
2. Other 2009 projects • Land • Probate• Church or military
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International projects
1. Norway2. Sweden3. Chihuahua, Mexico4. Schleswig-Holstein5. Wuerttemberg6. Copenhagen, Denmark7. Sachsen (Saxony)8. Netherlands
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British Isles projects
1. Probate records for England counties2. Principal Probate Registry & Estate Duty
Registers3. Build England county pages 4. Ireland county pages5. Guidance page for East India Company
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Great content: some examples
1. Maryland History2. Burned Counties Research3. United States History
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ContributingEver tell someone else the stuff you’ve
learned?
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Your knowledge is valuable!
Are you good at…
• Spelling? • Grammar? • Bridging ideas? • Finding cool Websites? • Finding local collections? • Linking between
articles?
• Documenting processes step by step?
• Governance? • Recruiting talent?• Organizing volunteers?
It’s easy on the wiki!
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Reach a wider audience
1. Over 600,000 unique visitors in the last year2. Hit counter on each page
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Track traffic on the pages you create
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Track traffic on the pages you create
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Your contributions will last
1. FamilySearch is big • If Michael gets hit by a bus, the wiki won’t go away
2. Creative Commons license• Pages can be copied to other sites with CC license
3. History page• See every draft of every article
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Finding ProjectsYou can contribute to projects in progress!
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Where to find projects
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Where to find projects
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Where to find projects
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Where to find projects
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How to create a project
1. Create a page describing the project.2. Link to your project from the list on the
Community Portal.
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What We Covered Today
• What’s a wiki?• Focus of FamilySearch Wiki• How people use the wiki• How edits spur quality• Projects & great content• Contributing
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Getting and Giving Advice
Do you…• …want to know where to find an ancestor?• …want to know where the best, cheapest records
are? • …ever tell people the stuff you’ve learned?
You can do it on FamilySearch Wiki!wiki.familysearch.org
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The community needs your knowledge!
1. While researching, you’ve learned something that can save someone else time! We need you!
2. Volunteers• We need people of all faiths, ethnicities, &
backgrounds• Call me 801-703-3580 or see me after class!
3. Missionaries• Full time or part-time• @ Church Headquarters or @ home• Call me 801-703-3580 or see me after class!
4. Interns• Any school, anywhere. Call me or see me after class!
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