FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 11 Dec 2014

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Business/Announcements
Contributor's breakfast: Date: Friday, February 13th Time: 8:30 to 9:30 AM Location: The Nauvoo Café Special Note: It will be a dutch treat. We’d just love everyone to come, get some breakfast and mingle with one another for a bit.

Guest Speaker

 * Jan 15 2015: planning to invite 3-4 Family History Centers to give us their perspectives. Lisa McBride is going to suggest which ones. We just need to be certain they do not see this as a request from HEADQUARTERS. What are some questions we could ask them in advance, rather than putting them on the spot?
 * What sort of records do they have?
 * What are they doing to provide access to it? Examples: early non-published cem records; website;
 * Projects they are doing
 * Do they know they have an FHC page on the wiki and do they need any help with it?
 * They need to know they can be creative, can link to local resources, repositories, libraries
 * What do they have that others may not know about
 * What has been your experience using the wiki?
 * Do they have any suggestions?
 * Would they be open to join classes for editing, etc. Beginning lessons
 * Getting others in their area aware of the wiki-- helpful for some who don't know the wiki can help them in their service
 * Lofty goals down the road: every FH consultant adopt the pages for their area (either where they live or where their ancestor's lived.
 * How many of their staff would be willing to work as a wiki helper during the time they are in the center when they are not busy
 * Do they have time? Do they want a way to spend their time? Would they be willing to go to libraries in their area and learn what's there?
 * Would they want to contribute, or give info for someone else to contribute
 * Point out usefulness of the wiki -- to indexing, historical records, helping the helper


 * Lehi city is using Facebook to post photos, historical info, etc.
 * Michael: Entry portal to the Wiki- click help which sends out a request for help: the help desk was a dead end -- need a document that sends them to the online community. Welcoming committee sent something this a.m.


 * It may also be interesting to get others in the future: Such as a few librarians, societies, a few bloggers, a few .... what are your ideas?
 * Where is the news that bloggers come up with?
 * Ancestry insider posted indexing projects
 * James Tanner -- legal and other issues: how some of the documents came into being "there ought to be a law"

Summary of Yammer
FS Wiki Contributors group.

Items from the FamilySearch Blog
 * Photo Duplication Services Discontinued
 * Some wiki pages will need to be updated to reflect this change

Governance Council Report

 * Items to pose to Governance Council

Community Council Report

 * Items to pose to Community Council

Discussions and Proposals Follow-up
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News to be publicized
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Meeting Notes/Minutes

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