FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Community Meeting 2012 October 17

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Agenda
Meeting Participants:

Wiki News
 * Problem with the CSS - bullets fixed last week but lines in tables still don't show. Engineers are aware, but feedback never hurts.

News and Events

 * October 18 The Secret Lives of Women: Research Female Ancestors.... by Gena Philibert-Ortega. UGA (Virtual) 7 p.m. Mountain
 * October 19-20, 2013 ICAPGen Conference
 * January 14-18, 2013 Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG).
 * March 21-23, 2013 RootsTech

Review of last meeting

 * Wednesday, 10 Oct

Purpose and life of the Wiki 15 minutes

 * How does interactive teaching (see Ancestry.com/death) affect the effort and the content we put into the wiki? How long will this wiki be useful?


 * Then the typical agenda: 1) Progress reports; 2) Church Records and Libraries tweaks; 3) Strategies: how to find birth information (US/Utah).

Progress reports Balance of meeting

 * Birth task: 1898-present segment:
 * Neighboring counties clickable maps: Weber County example
 * SEO (Search Engine Optimizer)
 * The practice paragraph for Beaver County moved it from page 14 to page 2.
 * The paragraph was NOT part of the Google description. (Show it)
 * Needs tweaking so still effective, yet more subtle
 * From last week: "Expect to finish task descriptions for these areas of the counties: Libraries, History, Church"
 * Results - not completed, progress. Tweaks needed.
 * Tried an SEO paragraph in the Church records pages
 * Names of Church records pages: are they good for SEO?
 * How to Find Birth Information in the United States: See email from James

From previous meetings (no progress):
 * Get documentation of Delayed Birth Registration - dates started, etc. (Says 1941 on state page, but no citation.) - Pat
 * Do the county newspaper pages - Wilma
 * Value and frequency of FHLC links - topic of a near future meeting.
 * Utah Record Selection Table needs updating. (Just keeping on the list until done)

Idea share
In progress reports this week

Ideas we won't forget

 * Tip Bank