New York City LDS History:Community Portal

Revision as of 12:53, 9 June 2008

The community portal serves as an entry point to the committee's work in process. Here you can find the following:

How to Help

Tasks

Here are some tasks you can do:

• Wikify: Make articles use links, headings, sources, templates, and categories in a standard way.
• Create: If there is a topic you think needs to be addressed, create a new article. Also, a red link anywhere on this wiki indicates that someone thought an article should exist, but they didn't have the time or expertise to write it themselves. If you can, get that topic started by writing the first draft yourself. You can see the entire list of such articles at Special:Wantedpages.
• Copyedit: Fix grammar, punctuation, style to be more accurate, and in accordance with the New York City LDS History Style Guide.
• Source: Although opinions and personal ideas can be helpful, statements purported to be official Church policy will be more effective if backed up by an official source. Use the Cite ex tension to add <ref> tags to list your sources
• See Also: Adding "See Also" sections to the end of articles can improve navigation
• New_York_City_LDS_History:Searching: Write/Edit this page, which is linked to from the Search Results page
• New_York_City_LDS_History:Copyrights: Write/Edit this page, which is linked to from the Editing page that appears whenever you edit a page; this should briefly explain Public Domain, Fair Use, and improper use of copyrighted materials.
• User Page: Add your own user page to give people some idea of your background and experience.

New Projects

• Harvest Articles from the Brooklyn Eagle
• Harvest Articles from the New York Times
• Harvest Information from the Internet
• Harvest Information from Books
• Harvest Information from the LDS Church Archives and Library
• Harvest Information from Dialogue
• Harvest Information from Sunstone
• Add categories to improve navigation
• Add templates where appropriate
  • Add a {{Edit}} to flag articles or sections that need to be rewritten (useful for the harvesting project)
  • Add a {{Merge}} to flag articles that need to be merged (if an article duplicates information found in another article)
  • Add a {{Delete}} to flag articles that need to be deleted (generally this would only be needed if more than one article covers the same topic)
• Expand the style guide

Work in Process

Newsletter Drafts Draft Tables of Contents for newsletter issues, due dates, responsibilities, etc.

Coordination and Community Board

Meeting Agendas The Agendas for the most recent and for previous montly meetings of the committee, along with the schedule for when the next meeting will occur.

Committee Members

Current Members

• Sue Allred
• Randy Astle
• Brent Belnap
• Alison Clark
• America Cruz
• Michelle Everett
• Julie Kanan
• Ann Knight
• Kent Larsen
• Jim Lucas
• Melissa Milewski
• Glen Nelson
• Suzan Nelson
• Adreanne Paydar
• Amneris Puscasu
• Marci Stringham

Internet Members

The following people help update this website and assist our research, even though they do not live in the New York City region:

Past Committee Members

The following people have been members in the past and have participated in past issues of The New York LDS Historian and done research for the committee. We thank them for their assistance:

• Sara Anderson
• Darrell Babbidge
• Jennifer Babbidge
• Nathan Bowen
• Sarah Jane Bowen
• Winnifred Bowers†
• Claudia Bushman
• Richard Bushman
• Mark Butler
• John & Reva Corrigan
• Beverly Diaz
• Nelson Diaz
• Mark Holden
• Anne Klarer
• Joanna Legerski
• Frank & Alice Miller
• Michael & Jessica Mladineo
• Ted & Julie Moore
• Geraldo Nieves
• Karen Hales Parkinson
• Tom & Louise Plummer
• Jenny Reeder
• Joanne Rowland
• Matt Squires
• Ned Thomas
• Cherylnn Thomas
• Scott Tiffany
• Sariah Toronto
• Melissa Valentine
• Chris Wheeler