User group meeting agenda & minutes 13 August 2008

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 * Changing Colors on Portal pages. Whats the process? davide 03:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Are you talking about in general or to specific portal/article? I am not sure that we really want to encourage this for every individual article/portal. Thomas Lerman 19:37, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

= Agenda =

Administrative items

 * 1) Assignment of time keeper and note taker
 * 2) Introduction of new members: 10 seconds for name and desired takeaways.
 * 3) Prayer -- Joan Healey
 * 4) Review of Minutes
 * 5) Today's agenda preview

Information items
Reports from BYU Conference -

Reports from the Field -

Carryover from Last Week
Report on progress with the county pages -- U.S. Unit

New Items
Recordings of previous meetings??

Log-in Problems

Using the "Getting Started" page as a basis for discussion in Users Group Meetings

= Minutes =

Facilitator was Jimmy Parker, Note taker was David Dilts.

Prayer by Joan Healey

Total number of registered users of the FamilySearch Wiki as of the start of this meeting is 3,620. That is an increase of 2 registered users over last week.

Attendees
Jimmy Parker, Mollie Forbes, David Samuelsen, Joan Healey, Darris Williams, Barbara Baker, Carlos, James Andersen, Gerda Balls, Ruth Merimann, Sylvie Pysnak, David Dilts

Remotely: Raeone Steuart

Items Discussed
Reports from BYU Conference - James Andersen reported that a live FamilySearchWiki session was demonstrated at the Conference to get students used to the idea of the making changes and how those changes can be reverted if need be.

The word is getting out and pieces are being added. We can add stub items and go back later to fill them out.

Reports from the Field - Jimmy Parker reported that a lady from Virginia (Lise Embley?) will on Friday will make a presentation and get librarians in southern Virginia involved in contributing to the FamilySearchWiki.

Discussion of changes to our articles. There are options and protections in the Wiki to lock down pages and portals. Sysops may be able to change some pages that are locked. Sysops have even more rights. In Brevard County, Florida some changes are locked. A sysop can help make a changes to locked pages. There is a three revert policy that it will be locked after the third revision. If a page needs to be locked down, contact a sysop. The question was asked if portals should automatically be locked. Darris Williams thought in general it was better to leave them open edit.