FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting Agenda 04 January 2011

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= Agenda =

Kudos goes to ...
Jane Colmenares who, as a Community member, gave much time, encouragement, and ideas in the beginnings of the (talk digest or gathering place or whatever it may be called) concept.

Announcements
1) The Wiki Contributors Corner forum is being tested for ways to to bring your discussions and ideas to decisions and put them into practice.

Current threads regarding this include:


 * Community Center, Village Pump, or something else? 4 posts
 * Forum Digest: a plan for reaching decisions, implementing ideas 13 posts

Be part of the solution! Review the posts, add comments, and make suggestions.

2) Threads about moderators and adopters:
 * Adoption sign options 7 posts
 * Replacing a moderator or adopter 4 posts
 * Moderators and Adopters: level of activity 30 posts
 * Relative stewardship of moderators and adopters 14 posts
 * Identifying a page's adopter or moderator 5 posts


 * Discussion threads will call for a vote between options.
 * Resulting decisions will be recorded, likely in the Community Center. and implemented on the Wiki, likely in the Community Center.
 * Several threads pertain to this, including:




 * If this method is continued, volunteers will be needed to "shepherd" specific threads or topics through the digest - vote - implement process.

2) We have a secretary who will be taking minutes on the Discussion page for this meeting. Let's help her get the important points.


 * Those points will also be posted to the appropriate threads in the Wiki Contributors Corner forum, so we won't have to go several places to get the conversations.


 * Questions?
 * Comments?

Discussion Items
Notice the announcement about the "talk digest."

Main topic: Moderators and their roles


 * Review of the page FamilySearch Wiki:Moderator


 * What do we need training on?
 * Does anything need changing?
 * What forums threads are needed to affect those changes?

If time permits


 * Review comments already in forum threads