Talk:User group meeting & agenda 30 December 2008

I'd love to see the church make a Wiki site available where people could create pages for individual people. This could provide a much simpler interface to the information on FamilySearch than the old or new interfaces. The beauty of Wikipedia is its simplicity. It's ok if FamilySearch continues to provide a more powerful back-end for power-user genealogists, but how about the casual person who wants to find information about some random "John Doe" and finds that there are four people, and each has 30-100 entries, and he just thinks that FamilySearch is filled with duplicate junk and gives up. Most of the duplication is about stupid stuff like whether a person was born in "1909" or "july 1909" or "July 1909" or "28 July 1909" and so on ad nauseum. Maybe a Wiki page for each person isn't the exact right answer, but I'd love a simpler interface if I want to send a link to a friend about some ancestor. Minus all the mistakes that others have made.

Response to above: It does exist already as an independent site http://www.biographicalwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page This site was created over a year ago by Stephen Robison, a former consultant at the Family History Library. dsammy 08:30, 22 December 2008 (UTC)