1. FamilySearch Wiki Finding Records for Your Research

3. want to know where the best, cheapest records are?

4. ever tell people the stuff you’ve learned?You can do it on FamilySearch Wiki! wiki.familysearch.org

6. Focus of FamilySearch Wiki

7. How people use the wiki

8. How edits spur quality

9. Projects & great content

13. Wikipedia: Community Authoring 9th most popular Website Content written by community 3,000 new entries per day Most errors corrected in 5 mins. 11 edits per article

14. About FamilySearch Wiki

17. Help others avoid my mistakes

18. Make friends

19. Leave a legacy

20. Gather information for a class

21. Reach a wider audience

23. Growth & Quality Page edits spur quality Top contributors have 10k-15k edits/person 59,000 edits in 2009(as of 7/29/09) 7,500 characters/edit on average Top pages have 300-500 edits FHL research consultants investing 22,000 hours/year 2009 edits = 535,000,000 characters Don’t blink – you might miss something

24. Content What’s really great on the wiki?

25. U.S. projects Current projects (for all 50 states) Federal and state Census Vital (birth, marriage, death) Other 2009 projects Land Probate Church or military

26. International projects Norway Sweden Chihuahua, Mexico Schleswig-Holstein Wuerttemberg Copenhagen, Denmark Sachsen (Saxony) Netherlands

27. British Isles projects Probate records for England counties Principal Probate Registry & Estate Duty Registers Build England county pages Ireland county pages Guidance page for East India Company

28. Great content: some examples Maryland History Burned Counties Research United States History

29. Contributing Ever tell someone else the stuff you’ve learned?

31. Grammar?

32. Bridging ideas?

33. Finding cool Websites?

34. Finding local collections?

35. Linking between articles?

36. Documenting processes step by step?

37. Governance?

38. Recruiting talent?

39. Organizing volunteers? It’s easy on the wiki!

40. Reach a wider audience Over 600,000 unique visitors in the last year Hit counter on each page

41. Track traffic on the pages you create

42. Track traffic on the pages you create

43. Your contributions will last FamilySearch is big If Michael gets hit by a bus, the wiki won’t go away Creative Commons license Pages can be copied to other sites with CC license History page See every draft of every article

44. Finding Projects You can contribute to projects in progress!

45. Where to find projects

46. Where to find projects

47. Where to find projects

48. Where to find projects

49. How to create a project Create a page describing the project. Link to your project from the list on the Community Portal.

51. Focus of FamilySearch Wiki

52. How people use the wiki

53. How edits spur quality

54. Projects & great content

56. …want to know where the best, cheapest records are?

57. …ever tell people the stuff you’ve learned?You can do it on FamilySearch Wiki! wiki.familysearch.org

58. The community needs your knowledge! While researching, you’ve learned something that can save someone else time! We need you! Volunteers We need people of all faiths, ethnicities, & backgrounds Call me 801-703-3580 or see me after class! Missionaries Full time or part-time @ Church Headquarters or @ home Call me 801-703-3580 or see me after class! Interns Any school, anywhere. Call me or see me after class!