FamilySearch Wiki:2009 User Group Meeting Agenda and Minutes

Beginning with the Jan 2009 Users Group Meetings, we have separated the Agenda and the Minutes for each meeting. Hopefully, it will make the minutes of the meeting easier and quicker to read.

1st Quarter

 * Jan 06 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and minutes
 * Jan 13 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and minutes
 * Jan 20 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and minutes
 * Jan 27 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and minutes
 * Feb 03 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * Feb 10 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * Feb 17 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * Feb 24 2009 User Group Meeting agenda
 * Mar 03 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * Mar 10 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * Mar 17 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * Mar 24 2009 User Group Meeting agenda
 * Mar 31 2009 User Group Meeting agenda

2nd Quarter

 * Apr 07 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * Apr 14 2009 User Group Meeting agenda
 * Apr 21 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * Apr 28 2009 User Group Meeting agenda and recording
 * May 05 2009 agenda and minutes
 * May 12 2009 agenda
 * May 19 2009 agenda and recording
 * May 26 2009 agenda and recording
 * June 2 2009 agenda and recording
 * June 9 2009 agenda and recording
 * June 15 2009 agenda
 * June 23 2009 agenda and recording
 * June 30 2009 agenda

3rd Quarter

 * Community Meeting 7 July 2009 agenda - no notes
 * Community Meeting 14 July 2009 agenda and recording - Unportal page proposal; Search results in red for keywords used in search; Spammer attack on previous day; Use Portal:Idaho for training purposes when teaching others about state pages; New York portal page problem.
 * Community Meeting 21 July 2009 agenda - Geocities refugees; Misinformed FHC consultants.
 * Community Meeting 28 July 2009 agenda -- No meeting; Agenda items included Potential editing problems reported by missionaries; The new Place Template; Category re-categorizing; Several suggestions for Home page improvements; Discussion suggestion for the Genealogical Glossary Terms. Were these items brought forward for discussion when meetings were resumed?
 * Community Meeting 4 August 2009 agenda -- No meeting; PlaceOpedia introduced as a new discussion item. Note: also see the Discussion page.
 * Community Meeting 11 Aug 2009 agenda -- No meeting; Agenda items included potential editing problems reported by missionaries; The new info box and populated places template; Request string function extension through Forum; Suggestion for Home page improvements; Comments on Glossary page improvements.
 * Community Meeting 18 Aug 2009 agenda - no notes
 * Community Meeting 25 Aug 2009 agenda - Doesn't appear the meeting took place due to Adobe Connect problems; Notes included a request for consensus on the new info box and populated places template; and the possible use of DimDim when staff are not present to run the meeting.
 * 1 September 2009 Community Meeting agenda and recording - Discussions included: DimDim; Portal/UnPortal status; Consensus; Boy Scout Genealogy Merit Badge; Inappropriate contributions; WorldCat; Inter-Wiki Links.
 * 8 September 2009 Community Meeting agenda and recording - Discussions included: Welcoming Committee; PlaceOpedia; WorldCat; String function extension; WWS Wiki questions missionaries cannot answer.
 * 15 September 2009 Community Meeting agenda and recording - Portal/UnPortal status; Links in RecordSearch Pilot changed; Linking to maps (WikiMapia, PlaceOpedia and Wikipedia) and how they are now linking to "us" - FamilySearch Research Wiki.
 * 22 September 2009 Community Meeting agenda and recording - Discussions included: Creating links to FamilySearch; Maintenance regarding flagging &amp; Continuous Maintenance Projects; Fate of the Portal Namespace (resolved yet???); PDF file naming - ease of use question (how to use the [[Media:]] link instead of the [[Image:]] link; Interwiki links - external vs. internal. Note the Discussion page has additional comments about Disambiguation and Categorization.
 * 29 September 2009 Community Meeting agenda and recording - Possible editor bug; Interwiki links - external vs. internal; External links: keep status quo until 70% overturn; Disambiguation, Categorization; Linking Research Wiki to Maps on maps.familysearch.org; Geocities and Google Translate; WorldCat. Note the Discussion page has additional comments about Disambiguation and Categorization.

4th Quarter

 * 6 October 2009 agenda and recording
 * 13 October 2009 agenda and recording
 * 20 October 2009 agenda and recording
 * 27 October 2009 agenda and recording - no audio!