Talk:User group meeting & agenda 30 December 2008

I'd love to see the church make a Wiki site available where people could create pages for individual people. This could provide a much simpler interface to the information on FamilySearch than the old or new interfaces. The beauty of Wikipedia is its simplicity. It's ok if FamilySearch continues to provide a more powerful back-end for power-user genealogists, but how about the casual person who wants to find information about some random "John Doe" and finds that there are four people, and each has 30-100 entries, and he just thinks that FamilySearch is filled with duplicate junk and gives up. Most of the duplication is about stupid stuff like whether a person was born in "1909" or "july 1909" or "July 1909" or "28 July 1909" and so on ad nauseum. Maybe a Wiki page for each person isn't the exact right answer, but I'd love a simpler interface if I want to send a link to a friend about some ancestor. Minus all the mistakes that others have made.

Response to above: It does exist already as an independent site http://www.biographicalwiki.com/index.php/Main_Page This site was created over a year ago by Stephen Robison, a former consultant at the Family History Library. dsammy 08:30, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Since we sometimes have had situations where people have put up biographiphies, might this be a good one to refer people to who wish to put up biographies? I'm thinking we could make reference to it in the various guiding principles documents that we have now on the subject. And thanks again David for sharing the link. JamesAnderson 17:11, 22 December 2008 (UTC)