User group meeting & agenda 13 January 2009

= Proposing ideas for this agenda =

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= 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 --
 * 4) Review of Minutes
 * 5) Today's agenda preview

Information items

 * 1) Ann Roach will present information about the use of Adobe Connect.

New Items

 * 1) Maryland Barn Raising Tasks needs more people to sign up to write. (Michael)
 * 2) Need a community member to do a MD barn raising task: Write page on major date sites for U.S. research. (Please contact Michael @ 240-2071.)
 * 3) Need community member to start linking wiki pages to data sets in FamilySearch Record Search. (Michael)
 * 4) The need for a project: Linking to digitized books -- first those on the BYU/FHL project, then on Google Books and elsewhere.
 * 5) I received a notice from my watchlist and the question came up - are email addresses allowed on the Wiki as shown in several instances - https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Australia_Societies ? dsammy 03:14, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Carryover from Previous Meetings

 * 1) Need community member to write a page on proper etiquette for doing roll-backs on the FamilySearch Wiki. (Michael)
 * 2) Demo by Thomas Lerman or his designee -- Proper internal links, including external links to internal pages.
 * 3) Also see the discussion page for the meeting held 30 December 2008, there are some items there that have merit time permitting. Also along that line, see http://www.paperofrecord.com/ (also see this meeting's discussion page).

= Minutes =

Facilitator was Ritcheymt, Note taker was Jimmy Parker, Time keeper was [Add name here].

Prayer by

This week, there are now 6,191 registered users of the FamilySearch Wiki. That is an increase of 103 new registered users over last week.