User group meeting agenda & minutes 13 August 2008

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 * Changing Colors on Portal pages. Whats the process? davide 03:24, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Are you talking about in general or to specific portal/article? I am not sure that we really want to encourage this for every individual article/portal. Thomas Lerman 19:37, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

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

Information items
Reports from BYU Conference - James reported that a live Wiki session was demonstrated to get students used to the idea of the making changes and how they can be reverted if needed.

The word is getting out and pieces are being added. We can add stub items and go back later to fill them out.

Discussion of changes to our articles. There are options and protections in the Wiki to lock down pages and portals. Sysops may be able to change some pages that are locked. Sysops have even more rights. In Brevard County, Florida some changes are locked. A sysop can help make a changes to locked pages. There is a three revert policy that it will be locked after the third revision. If a page needs to be locked down, contact a sysop. The question was asked if portals should automatically be locked. Darris Williams thought in general it was better to leave them open edit.

A style guide has been given, but no way is known to lock just the style (colors). Perhaps we could contact people that make changes we see as undesireable and encourage them to help and participate. We should encourage positive changes, so we need to be careful how we ask others to be careful with their changes.

Bradford County, Florida has had some material deleted by a copy and paste over. David Dilts will talk to missionaries about pasting in headings over already existing material. David Samuelson and James, and Jimmy Parker and David Dilts will work together to try and fix this.

Darris Williams pointed out we should very seldom block a page. A few papers were blocked, and the home page. But it is rare and usually only after some interaction and working together to solve the problem. All contributions may be edited mercilessly.

Gerda expressed frustration that others are allowed to make changes that may destroy our contributions.

Jimmy Parker Reports from the Field Lady from Virginia on Friday will get librarians in southern Virginia involved in contributing to the Wiki.

We talked about county shells and how through the discussion pages will be used to develope the best possible shell

Recordings after 25 June do not seem to be available.

Barbara found a research query in one of the states. Move the query to the Starting in September we will have two FHL classes about the Wiki.

Keep adding things to the Wiki. Reports from the field

Carryover from Last Week
Report on progress with the county pages -- U.S. Unit

New Items
Recordings of previous meetings??

Log-in Problems

Using the "Getting Started" page as a basis for discussion in Users Group Meetings

= Minutes =

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

Prayer by [Add name here]

Total number of registered users of the FamilySearch Wiki as of the start of this meeting is 3,618. That is an increase of 101 registered users over last week.

Attendees
Jimmy Parker, David Samuelsen, Darris Williams, Barbara Baker, Carlos, James, Gerda Balls, Ruth Merimann, Sylvie Pysnak, David Dilts

Remotely: Raeone Steuart