FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 6 June 2013

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Introduce new members

 * Cecelia Wilbur - intern, works with Ben Fuller on Dorothy's team. Writing and research experience.
 * Ian Edwards - moderator for Wales, retired head of IT in university. Member of Wiki community advisory council. Interest in technical side, correct coding. Ben Fuller is also going into web design

Moderators and Adopters

 * Moderators to offer: Tips and best practices for resolving problems; questions and feedback
 * How much copy and paste is allowed from Genuki and Wikipedia? Books the data is from are gazetteers that are out of print. But Genuki has copyright of that version. Link to it.
 * If you can get hold of an original book and type it out, but to copy from their site.
 * Wikipedia is not copyrighted.
 * Why bother doing the Wiki, point straight to Genuki?
 * Paraphrase, cite, and point
 * The way the wiki will succeed is has to be better than the competing product. Not just a copy from a competing product.
 * Or contact the owner and get permission:
 * Find the people who are making the assignments, and talk with them.
 * Discussion re: responsibilities, "super moderator,"....

Priority Items

 * Question: Are these 'Local Histories...at BYU Digital Archives' pages to be updated? For example, Local Histories of the United States on BYU Digital Archives, Pennsylvania - South Dakota. The books are now in the FamilySearch digital books, I believe, at least the ones I looked at. (MDianeRogers)
 * Check with US/Canada or Dennis Meldrum
 * Update? If so, but in different format. Table to large. Transpose - reverse column/row
 * Demonstrate how to use ~ ~ ~ ~ on Talk pages.

Community Council Report

 * Minutes

New Agenda Items

 * Updates on FamilySearch Wiki Facebook page - Cecelia Wilbur. May - 3,000 fans! One week later, 3040. Can bring all the users/moderators together. Communities for FamilySearch and many others. Encourage to use facebook for moderator/adopter issues, etc. US/Canada rep can be added as an admin.
 * Also FS Wiki Twitter page  Twitter at "Records Wiki"