Community Wiki Support Meeting 20 June 2013

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Kudos go to ...

 * THE WHOLE TEAM. All the work I see is so good and I love how the red pages are going away ion many pages. Sister Pond
 * Mark on Somerset England articles - adding personal knowledge
 * Lee and Robin - on Janell's vacation.
 * Whole Team - for working together and in such a way to keep things going.
 * Whole Team - answering Mark's questions
 * Lee - Time spent on FHL template training
 * Howard - Connecticut adpot- a-page badges are up

Priority items for this meeting:

 * Item:


 * Goal for this item:


 * Steps to achieve this goal:


 * Assignments and dates of completion:


 * Evaluation date:

Updates and follow up

 * Discuss Namespace training next week
 * Maintenance Report - All is going well. The out of date sections are down by half in the last 3 months. And we are keeping the many other to 0 or at least no gains. Thanks Sandra


 * Review of Individual Assignments


 * Evaluation of goals set from previous meetings:


 * Blogs to follow, etc. - Lee


 * AC - hold off for the new wifi router; increasing in bandwidth (100X more)
 * Bandwith - amount of speed and how much data you can receive without interruptions. Bandwidth speed test:  http://www.speedtest.net/

Business/Announcements
Training


 * Categories - write to others on their Talk Pages to let them know about categories

How Categories are organized: By Topic Search:

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Category:Contents


 * Namespace- like filing cabinet. Example: Help:Contributor Help

If no prefix then it is part of the Main.Do a search for articles on Namespaces.

Default search: Main, Help, FamilySearch Wiki (preferences can be changed)

Search in Wiki is determined by Namespace. Default search is Main Namespace

(For video see Skype Chat)


 * Use of the FamilySearch Catalog Template - Lee


 * Example:




 * Produces this on the page:




 * Here's the link to the item in the catalog:
 * Asholt Census Records

Improve the Wiki

 * Propose we have we a category for Wiki Missionaries as other missionary groups do.
 * GSWAC Liasion committee
 * Moderator pages and form
 * Moderator pages and form