FamilySearch Wiki:Community Meetings

Live FamilySearch Wiki Community Meetings
The Wiki Community offers several meetings to support you in using the Wiki as a tool in your family history research. You may connect with other researcher with more experience that are willing to give you research direction. A project leader may be willing to mentor you when you join a project. You may want to collaborate with the advanced technical community and make suggestions for improving the Wiki. Join us in any or all of the meetings that interest you or create one of your own! Project leaders are encouraged to post their project pages and meetings under Project Meetings below.

Within MeetingPlace, #5 on the telephone will mute or un-mute.

New Wiki Users Meeting

 * Information &amp; Agendas: Genealogists Helping Newbies Meeting
 * Time: Thursday 7:30 - 8:00 PM (Mountain Time) (9:30 - 10:00 PM Eastern)
 * Format: MeetingPlace ID: 5213 Click to Attend Dial in Number: 801-240-2663
 * General meeting information:


 * 1) If you are new to family history and/or new to using the Wiki, this meeting is for you! You may receive support in using and contributing to the Wiki as well as direction in your personal research.
 * 2) Project leaders with Wiki projects may find these meetings a good place to meet and recruit team members for your projects. New users will learn about the Wiki from you and other members of your project team.
 * 3) The Family history research community naturally reaches out to one another in sharing and mentoring each other. As we learn and share what we know, we will experience the support of collaboration and the sweetness of success. Together, we will find our ancestors!

Experienced Genealogist

 * Information &amp; Agendas: Genealogists Helping Genealogists
 * Time: Thursday 7:00 - 7:30 PM (Mountain Time) (9:00 - 9:30 PM Eastern)
 * Format: MeetingPlace ID: 5213 Click to Attend Dial in Number: 801-240-2663
 * General meeting information:


 * 1) If you have experience with family history but are new to using the Wiki, this meeting is for you! You may receive support in using and contributing to the Wiki and help others with direction in their person research and using the Wiki in the Genealogists Helping Newbies meeting following this 30 meeting.
 * 2) Project leaders with Wiki projects may find these meetings a good place to meet and recruit team members for your projects. New users will learn about the Wiki from you and other members of your project team.
 * 3) The Family history community naturally reaches out to mentor and share our knowledge and sources with each other. As we do this, we experience the support of collaboration and the sweetness of success. Working together, we will find our ancestors!

Technical Meeting

 * Information &amp; Agendas: Wiki Tech Users Meeting
 * Time: Tuesday 2:00 - 3:00 PM (Mountain Time) (4:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern)
 * Format: MeetingPlace - Adobe Connect
 * Archives
 * General meeting information:


 * We discuss content, technical issues, workarounds, community, site design, and strategy.
 * This is the meeting for technical discussions concerning the Wiki.

Wiki Project: Indians of North America

 * Information &amp; Agendas: Indians of North America Project
 * When? — Contact Jimmy Parker for times
 * Format: Skype chat and email

Not open to new team members until May 2010