Community Meeting Agenda 8 December 2009

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Administrative items

 * 1) Assignment of time keeper and note taker
 * 2) Introduction of new members: 10 seconds for name and desired takeaways.
 * 3) Review of Minutes
 * 4) Today's agenda preview

Information items

 * The conversion of Portal pages to un-Portal pages has stopped. We do not have anyone to help us with that project. Are there any volunteers? We Need YOU!!! --Fran 20:55, 8 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Help:How to Create an Un-Portal Page
 * I have created a project page for the purpose of tracking the conversion of all portal pages. If you would like to help with this project, please feel free to sign up as a volunteer. I have not created a list that shows the status of the conversion of portal pages, so if anyone would like to help with the creation of the list, that would also be a great help!!! Any and all help with this project is most welcome! -Fran 20:49, 10 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Dianne Loosle will be attending our meeting next week! --Fran 21:05, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

Replace functionality in extension
I am unable to attend again due to another conflict. So, I would appreciate it if someone would take notes. What is the status of the #Replace: functionality requested? This functionality is achieved through the StringFunctions within the ParserFunctions. . . may need an upgrade to ParserFunctions and definitely enable them. I know that I have requested this quite a while back and believe Steve has as well. Here are some links to information about requests:


 * Forum
 * !7 Nov Meeting
 * 15 Dec meeting: Q & A section (includes CottrellS's CaseID:1304647) & FamilySearch Catalog linking with template? section
 * Wpd template
 * CottrellS discussion
 * Manual of Style
 * FHL template discussion
 * My e-mail (CaseID:1302967) on 10Oct to support requesting the extension that is needed for more than one template on the Research Wiki . . . this includes a consensus reached by the community in a community meeting as part of the Manual of Style. Upon further investigation, I found it is possible that we already have that extension installed. It is part of the ParserFunctions Extension. I know that extension is already installed, but I am not sure which revision. If it is r50997 or later, it just would need to be enabled. Unfortunately, the version page does not show all of the revision information. Any chance of that being fixed too? If we do not have r50997 of the ParserFunctions, we probably would have to upgrade that and hopefully it would be a simple process.

Thomas Lerman 18:50, 7 December 2009 (UTC)


 * I didn't know anything about the request until I reviewed all the agenda notes from the meetings held in the third quarter. It will take me a few days to track this down. I hope to know the answer by next week. Fran 20:42, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

has a problem adding delete template
Has anyone encountered this odd problem?

When I go to Clemency, Luxembourg page, I tried to edit it but it kept switching to Clemency Commune, Luxembourg. No way to go back in order to break redirect and add delete template there. The old page is quite old. Contents were added to new page. dsammy 21:12, 8 December 2009 (UTC)


 * This bug has already been reported to technical support. The CaseID:1262798

Chat

 * Laralee: does call my phone work?
 * dsammy: got msg im numero uno
 * cottrells: was last weeks meeting recorded?
 * Fran Jensen: yes, i believe so. I haven't had a chance to create the link to the recording(s) for past meetings.
 * Lise: I've got music on hold until the moderator starts the conference. Anybody else got music instead of the meeting?
 * dsammy: not me, because I saved the changed phone number fran supplied weeks ago
 * cottrells: have called the right number?
 * Lise: guess not. Anyone have the right number...
 * Lise: I went with the one on the web site.
 * dsammy: just checked and it is still showing OLD number and password
 * cottrells: 1-866-274-9016
 * Laralee: 336769
 * Fran Jensen: add a 5 at the end
 * dsammy: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/User_talk:Dsammy My stuff
 * Lise: thanks
 * Laralee: will the project page include instructions on how to do it?
 * dsammy: please refresh agenda, new item at bottom
 * cottrells: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Help:How_to_Create_an_Un-Portal_Page
 * Laralee: Maybe the agenda could have a template with links to project pages that have been discussed but not yet completed?
 * cottrells: I think the unresolved template and the https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Unresolved could play a part in tracking these kind of items
 * cottrells: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Special:Version
 * cottrells: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions
 * cottrells: CaseID:1262798
 * Judy Wolverton: Still have not received a Welcome message.
 * Judy Wolverton: https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/User_talk:Wolverton
 * cottrells: new contributors https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Special:Contributions/newbies
 * Laralee: It looks very nice
 * dsammy: I added info on how to link to GNIS properply last week.
 * cottrells: http://wave.google.com/help/wave/about.html