Talk:User group meeting agenda & minutes 2 July 2008

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Meeting Assignments
Currently, we have assignments in the meeting for note taker, time keeper, and moderator. Would it be possible to have someone assigned to monitor the "chat" that may occur from remote attendees? It might be helpful to have someone also monitor the sound as well. This may be the same person and would help being more proactive for those speaking. Thomas Lerman 20:37, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Ann Roach has currently been filling that role. She may have missed some comments today, since she was also presenting a portion of the agenda. And she will be gone next week, so we will need to have someone do it for that meeting.Jbparker 21:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)

Just speaking as one that has been virtually in the meeting a few times, it seems like I am not heard much. I would rather be physically in the meeting to be heard. I know Anne has many things going on at the same time and do not blame anyone for that. Thomas Lerman 14:01, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Tabs on articles
We have discussed at the past couple of meetings about adding new subjects to a discussion page by using the "+" tab. I noticed that Wikipedia renamed tabs shown on articles to make them, in my opinion, clearer. That may be something we may want to consider? Charts comparing the names on the tabs are shown below. . . my suggestion is to rename "page"->"article", "edit"->"edit this page", and "+"->"new section":

Thomas Lerman 14:22, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Looking further, Thomas Lerman 17:26, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) It appears that the reason "page" is being displayed is because the articles do not seem to be in a normal namespace (they are in "(main)" instead of "Article").
 * 2) The "Portal talk" pages are in the "Main page" namespace. This does not seem right.
 * 3) The "policy" namespace is empty. Is that intended for something in the future? Can this namespace be deleted?

FHL Favorites and Wiki
Incorporating the Family History Library Favorites in the Wiki. Stephen Bobowski 30 June 2008