FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 5 June 2014

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Business/Announcements

 * Have we heard anything about the upgrade?

Agenda items

 * Who knows how to link to the recordings of these meetings?AdkinsWH 17:35, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

Summary of Yammer
Posts to FS Wiki Contributors group May 28 and after:


 * Trying to identify barn-raising projects - likely around a geographic area. Comments included: to help people make a difference
 * Welcomed back a previous contributor
 * Plans for posting the test page to the Wiki. No comments made.
 * A few cartoons

Moderators and Adopters
Who has a list of their emails, so moderators will be notified each time? Also, we need agenda items specifically for moderators and adopters.AdkinsWH 17:13, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

10-15 minutes: Open discussion, and propose agenda items for future moderator meetings:


 * Contributors with no user page, no email. What can a moderator do?

Wiki Content
10 minutes:


 * The mockup page for Illinois has been posted to the Wiki as of Wednesday, June 4th. This was not announced, since the testers wanted to see the "natural" results of people coming to the page for research, not people coming to look at the changes.
 * This is a beta test, from which we should learn much.
 * Before the page is posted "for real" (sometime in June), bloggers and others will be notified so they can drive people to the page. This will let us gather comments and measurements of clicked and unclicked links and soo much more.
 * A suggestion was made to coordinate the colors of the bars with the colors on the map.
 * We want all the bars the same color. Different colors may send a message of more or less importance.
 * The colors on the maps most likely need to be changed to FamilySearch colors, which will match the color of the bars. Won't be done for Illinois soon.
 * Will experiment on this suggestion on another state soon.
 * Most of you realize this reformatting is spurred by the need to upgrade the MediaWiki software, which will dramatically impact the pages.


 * Question related to the FS colors: Could someone please provide a written definition and a list of colors (and the corresponding HTML codes) for the colors that are considered FS colors?

Wiki Support

 * Projects hub - Caleb

Community Council Report

 * Jane showed us some wiki comments and stats based upon the pop-up survey. Many comments were about the survey itself. These included comments about the indexing instructions, which should not—but do—affect the Wiki stats.
 * Discussed town/county pages: in most states not needed. Do come up with a way so people can find the county a town or city is in through the wiki. Some alternatives were mentioned. Wilma will explore further, get Yammer input.
 * exceptions are New England states, New York and a few others

Items to pose to Community Council