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Copying from Wikipedia to this wiki is encouraged, wherever the source page has potential for augmenting with more specifically genealogical material.

Whenever you do such copying from a page in the English-language ("en") version of Wikipedia, please add the following template near the bottom of the page: "enWP|" (inside double curly braces, i.e. {{enWP|}}). Alternatively use the smaller version {{Usedwps}}, which can be inserted with one click from the sidebar icon. Then before the final brackets paste the name of the Wikipedia article. If the page itself is a template, you need to have that inside a pair of opening and closing <noinclude></noinclude> tags. You need to add similar attribution for other languages of Wikipedia and for other Creative Commons projects such as Wikimedia Commons.

Unless copying just a paragraph, please copy the whole page from its edit box. We can use nearly everything, even (eventually) the interwiki links to other languages (though they should be "commented out" initially).

Don't be afraid of leaving lots of red links (though there may be fewer than you expect!) Any red link is an easy starter for a potential page. However, some we redirect back to Wikipedia: insert "wikipedia:" after the opening brackets, and if there's no pipe (|) in the link add one before the final brackets, e.g [[wikipedia:astrophysics|]].

Some Wikipedia templates are also here, or have better Wikia versions with the same name, and will therefore transition seamlessly. Other common templates for which Wikia has differently named equivalents have been redirected and will also transition seamlessly. Anything else may be worth adding. Check Help:Templates and its external links (particularly to the Starter wiki and the Templates wiki) or start a forum item to see if any other user wants to help or has a better idea.

Categories from Wikipedia do no harm, though we may redirect some or simply change some links. Before Wikia departed from the "red link" standard, you might see a red one, but now you have to click to see if a category exists here. Where a new link points to a category that we don't have and that is not redirected, you can give it the same parent categories as Wikipedia gives it.

Renaming Wikipedia categoriesEdit

This table shows how some of the Wikipedia categories are renamed on Familypedia.

Wikipedia name Familypedia name
year births Born in year
year deaths Died in year
year establishments Established in year
year establishments in XXX Established in year
year disestablishments Disestablished in year
US State counties Counties of US State
XXXish emigrants to YYY Migrants from XXX to YYY
Popluated places in XXX Settlements in XXX
Populated places established in year Established in year
Popluated coastal places in XXX Coastal settlements in XXX
Categories named after populated places in XXX Categories named after settlements in XXX
Populated waterside places in XXX Waterside settlements in XXX
Populated riverside places in XXX Riverside settlements in XXX
XXXish people People of XXX
XXXish monarchs Monarchs of XXX
XXX alumni Alumni of XXX

Pages deleted from WikipediaEdit

We can copy them too, but should try to go through the history to list the registered authors. For thousands of such pages, saved from oblivion, see the Speedy deletion Wiki, founded in 2012 but collecting earlier deletions and all future deletions

Copying from Wikipedia to a Wikia wiki is permissible if both use the same license. It is necessary to include the proper acknowledgment so that readers can refer to the original and discover its authors.

One way to add attribution is to use the {{Wikipedia}} template. If your wiki does not have a copy of this template, you can find one here. Another option, often used by Wikipedians when using works from Wikia, is to make the attribution in the page history via the edit summary.

Wikia sites are not intended to duplicate substantial portions of Wikipedia or any other site. You may copy all or part of an article (and its links and templates) to start off a page on the subject, but you are expected to adapt it so as to reflect this particular wiki's slant on the subject.

How do I copy files from other Wikimedia sites?

On a Wikimedia site, click on a picture that you want with the mouse. This will take you to the picture's information page. Below the copy of the picture will be a link with the pictures name. This link leads to a full-size version of the picture, as the one displayed on the information page is often a reduced size.

Right click on this link, and select "Save as..." or "Save image as..." to save the picture to a convenient folder on your computer.

Click "upload file" on your wiki and upload as described above. Be sure to copy the source and licensing information from the source page to your summary box, as required by open content licenses.

Sometimes if you are working fast you get an error message saying you don't have access to the server. Wait, try again, and it's usually OK. Another tip is to empty the picture folder on your computer after every page or two so you don't get confused with too many files. Once the files have been uploaded there is no need to keep them on your machine unless you want to.

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