FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 15 May 2012

MeetingPlace ID: 7770; Join the meeting; Dial-in number: 877-453-7266 1 p.m. Mountain time on Tuesdays


 * You can join up to 10 minutes early. If you try to join the meeting at any other time, you will get an error that the meeting doesn't exist.
 * Prior to joining the meeting for the first time, run the MeetingPlace Test to verify that you can participate in a web meeting.

Kudos go to ...

 * Re-wording of Stub template (Massachussets)
 * Jane Colmenares - Ohio &amp; Alabama

Updates and follow up

 * Is anyone clicking through to Forums from the Wiki? Nathan has Site Catalyst results. Murphynw 17:14, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Forums pages were recently moved and the new pages don't have the catalyst code on them so we need to have the engineers replace that code.
 * Elder Meyers and Elder Riggs did look at pages with links to Fourms on them in the Wiki, but only one page showed up.
 * We don't have a firm answer on whether the link is being used and could be eliminated from the Nav box

Business/Announcements

 * 1000 Link Limit --- Linkpendium. Is this a problem? Murphynw 17:56, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
 * If you go directly to the link, it doesn't link to Linkpendium.
 * Should we have a style guide that says to not harvest links from Linkpendium.
 * It might be good to create an article about Linkpendium and have links to larger categories.
 * Wholesale harvesting of links from Linkpendium should be noted as being unethical.
 * Style Guide- how we use link aggregators - deep linking, harvesting
 * Template:Linkpendium has resources for this county (example)? Then the researcher finds the link there, himself.
 * There should be verbage with links, that gives information, not just a list of links.
 * Our main objective is to help the researcher. If we don't have the information, links to other sites that do have it, could be used.  There should be a purpose for sending them from the Wiki.
 * Migration pages could be good models.
 * The fewer clicks, the better.
 * Nathan volunteered to write this up.
 * We need to have more discussion on "ethical" versus "legal" (Wilma)
 * Approach Linkpendium about extending the 1,000 limit - Darris or the library (Nathan, Danielle)

Project Help Requests

 * Need help with your project? See a project that needs to be done? Add it here:

Forums Overview

 * Be part of the solution! Make your opinions known! Post comments to an existing thread or start a new discussion at Wiki Contributors Corner forum.