FamilySearch Wiki:Technical Meeting Agenda 28 September 2010

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 * What's the holdup on MoS process for the navbox templates (discussion was started on Aug 24 and it has not been brought to a consensus, yet). Already there's some problems with the few who don't want to wait for the consensus and trying to impose on others.

Here's the quote from them "Nobody seemed to be coming to an agreement for over a month. If we are going to finally discuss it soon, fine. This Tuesday?" This was last Thursday. Yesterday I got this in email last night "We don't seem to have reached consensus on nav bars, so don't be too surprised if we just change them back the way we prefer." I have the rest of the message. The form they prefer is ... dsammy 14:39, 28 September 2010 (UTC)


 * MoS backlog of proposals still waiting for consensus. Category of Style guideline proposals. dsammy 14:39, 28 September 2010 (UTC)


 * FYI, the FHL templates are in a bit of a problem. The consensus has not been reached on this, contrary to the assumption of some. There's a technical problem as well which was explained to product manager staff last week. The problem centered on the transition to the digital age when there no books, microfilms or fiches in existence except in digital format. Also there are no templates yet for locality and subjects. The recommended template does not work as intended. The one for Baker, Baker, Oregon is 207062 and the template says FHL 207062, but it ends up as Church records, 1667-1890, Church of England. Parish Church of Sowe (Warwickshire). Only the template for "FHL Collections" is working as intended if for specific record in the FHL Catalog. The other templates using book, microfilm or fiche are more likely not to survive the transition to the digital because they are dependent on the call numbers or film/fiche numbers rather than the record id. WorldCat uses record ID, hence the WorldCat template does work because it is dependent on the record ID. (Thomas L., if you are reading this, is there a way to eliminate the word "Collections" from the FHL Collections template for good?) dsammy 14:39, 28 September 2010 (UTC)