FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 3 Jan 2012

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Updates and follow up
I'd like to add a follow up discussion concerning Business Cards for Wiki Page Adopters and Moderators, in particular, for the upcoming Rootstech conference. I have a document with some suggested card styles to be discussed. --Carol B. Moss 20:48, 27 December 2011 (UTC)



Business/Announcements

 * Support will be turning on their patron chat on Tuesday, 1/10/2012. We will initially provide coverage Tuesday 11-5 and Wed-Friday 8-5.  evancol 16:07, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Brainstorm ideas for a Widget/Button/Badge for libraries, societies, organizations to include on their pages that identifes them as being mentioned/featured in the FamilySearch wiki. See Maureen Taylor's blog for a Wikipedia example.  Thanks to Fran Jensen for pointing this out.  Lise 17:53, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Style Guide Discussions

 * FHA Template
 * The new Family History Archive viewer lacks a persistent URL for each scanned book. The URLs "are session based and only good for that browser and session" (quoting an engineer). To overcome this, there is a special URL that needs to be inserted: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid= . After the equals sign, add the IE# found in the URL for each book in the new viewer.
 * Here is an example of a broken link (you can't copy and paste the URL from the browser): https://dcms.lds.org/view/action/ieViewer.do?from_proxy=true&amp;dps_pid=IE63938&amp;dps_dvs=1323814300276~211&amp;dps_pid=IE63938&amp;change_lng=en
 * Here is a link that works: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE63938
 * Here is a page that uses the new template: https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Bronx_County,_New_York#Death (see second paragraph in "Death" section - hyperlink to word "online"). Wikitext: Murphynw 20:04, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

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