FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 17 Jan 2012

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Kudos go to ...

 * Janell for being on the FGS radio broadcast chat, fielding questions. I saw Steve there, too.  Not sure who else was there.  Thanks!  Lise 18:10, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Lise for averting a crisis with Dear Myrtle
 * Sandra Pond and the Wiki support team for bringing broken links down from over 4,000 to 30!

Updates and follow up

 * Thomas MacEntee has requested help developing a "getting started with the FamilySearch wiki" page for the FGS web site. I think it's a great opportunity to help facilitate societies' contributions to the wiki.  He already has the link to the Contributor Help page.  I'd love to brainstorm ideas for a page for FGS.  Lise 17:54, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * This would be a resource for societies to see the value of the Wiki and add to articles
 * Jane suggested "Getting Started:General Research" page has great information. This would be a good example of what could be done.
 * There is a page about developing a society page - Help:Creating a Society page
 * Jane and Lise will work on this and get back to Thomas
 * Business Card - Carol and Darris
 * URL has been added and it has gone to graphics and marketing.
 * A template will be ready for Rootstech
 * What format should be used so that people can edit it?
 * IT group should be able to help us with an Adobe Acrobat Creator[[Image:Moderator business card.jpg|thumb|center]]
 * Report from James and Lise on their presentations this past week
 * James -
 * Lise - radio broadcast went well, with a large audience - over 45.  There seemed a lot of interest from societies to get involved with Wiki.  The follow up is critical.
 * Report from Nathan - 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. (Did we ever finish this discussion?)
 * Widget box could be created for Society sites, etc. that would lead people back to the Wiki. Widgetbox.com
 * Make an official widget for Wiki? If it's on an  account, it doesn't have ads on it.  Jane has an account on Widgetbox
 * If we had a widget, socities would be happy to use it. Get FamilySearch to pay for it?
 * Darris will talk to Janell about going further with this, with Jane and will report back next week for any status updates
 * Widgetbox has a lot of LDS widgets.

Business/Announcements

 * Live Chat is up and running and we've received a few. Jane has added a template to some pages to make people more aware.
 * UGA - 3rd Thursday meeting on the 19th will be about the Wiki

Project Help Requests

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Improve the Wiki

 * User talk:TrostLZ Would someone from Historical Records be able to look at this page and address the question from the contributor?

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