FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 10 Apr 2012

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Introduce new members

 * Benjamin Fuller here for Historical Records

Kudos go to ...

 * Sandra Pond for work on categories

Updates and follow up

 * Consider change to "Community" label for the menu on the right - what do you think about "Editing in the Wiki"? Other ideas? -- janellv 18:34, 3 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Suggestion: Working in the Wiki; Contributors' Community; Things to do; Wiki Workers; Wiki Writers;Community Volunteers; Wiki Neighborhood
 * Vote next week - talk to researchers this week and ask what they would expect to see when looking for help
 * We need to vote on this one today.
 * Vote results -
 * Results and suggestions should go to the Useability team for input on what people will be searching for - Janell will talk to Tyson and Blair Keddington
 * Building the Wiki - 10 votes out of 14


 * Widgets - update - Jane and anyone else involved with this one


 * Wiki page - FamilySearch Wiki Widget
 * Namespace needs to be changed
 * Discussion ensued regarding using "Research Wiki" on the page or just "FamilySearch Wiki".
 * Style Guide should reflect common words used in Research (SCO) - Lise is getting some information.

Moderators and Adopters
First meeting of the month focus


 * Discussion about implementing duties from Forums.
 * Message that went to Moderators - if it offended anyone, we apologize.

Project Help Requests

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

Improve the Wiki

 * State topics Blitz. You may have noticed that many state topics pages are being edited. The 1940 Census landing pages are advertizing U.S. state topic Wiki pages (example: California(see right side bar "California Research Topics" and "FamilySearch Wiki Articles"). This could be very good and give the Wiki lots of exposure!
 * Staff at the FamilySearch Library are frantically (we weren't forewarned this was coming :) ) trying to make sure all these pages are presentable. Things we're trying to fix include: (1) dead links, (2) outdated information, (3) reducing oversized images, and (4) repairing reference errors. Volunteers are welcome to help. To sign up for a state to work on, visit State Pages Blitz Progress Chart on Google Docs. Contact me if you have any questions: Danielle Batson.

Given the above, should the page for Hamilton County Ohio here look like this? Has all the resources as clickable anchor links to a second page with those. If so, it isn't as clear as it should be I think that you go to another page for the categories, which are clickable headers.

Forums Overview

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