Talk:User group meeting agenda & minutes 30 Apr 2008

Please add suggestions for the agenda here. We welcome your contributions! Please remember to add four tildes (~) at the end of your entry to "sign" it with your name. That'll help us contact you if we need clarification on the item you'd like to address in the meeting. Molliewog 16:20, 12 March 2008 (MDT)

Images and other uploaded files
We have several BMPs that have been uploaded into the Wiki. I have downloaded, converted them to JPGs (using IrfanView), uploaded the JPGs, and fixed the articles. Now, the BMPs are not referenced at all. Who has rights for deleting the BMPs? Perusing MediaWiki, etc., it appears that the default is that BMPs, PDFs, etc. may not be uploaded. Do we really want BMPs to be uploaded? They definitely do not display nicely. I suppose PDFs may be nice in certain circumstances, but the links generally are not very friendly (at least a couple of clicks to download). Do we really want everyone to be able to upload PDFs? The number of clicks can be reduced, but will that method be guaranteed persistent file names? Thomas Lerman 15:08, 23 April 2008 (MDT)

Follow-up: Something seems broken in the Wiki (maybe when using IE?)
Something seems broken in the Wiki seems to be, at least for A Guide to Research, a very bad problem. Can we find out at least what is causing the problem and possible resolution? It may be just the size, but seems to be something more as it seems like I was having the same problem just editing a section. It was brought up at the last meeting that the file may be corrupted. I would like to find out the problem for sure. I agree that the article may be too long, but it would be nice to resolve just in case we run into this again. Thomas Lerman 15:13, 23 April 2008 (MDT)