FamilySearch Wiki:Community Meeting Agenda 1 December 2009

Be bold! Post your agenda items!
Feel free to post on the agenda any items you wish to cover during the meeting. If your item requires details or feedback, post some details on the discussion page and link to the discussion from the agenda. If you add an agenda item, you should also take notes when your item is discussed. If you are not able to attend or otherwise not able to take the notes, someone else should take that responsibility.

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

Un-portal Status
Status of "unportal" project? Lise 03:59, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
 * The project to convert the portals to regular pages is progressing. Currently I do not know how many portals have been converted and how many still need converting. I'll try to find out and let you know, or create a status update page for this project. Fran 17:35, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

Welcome Committee Testing
Our experiences with the two week test of the features provided by the Welcoming Committee. Please add your comments and questions here for discussion:
 * The first legitimate request for help from a wiki user was a request for help with their research. Kara was going to respond to this request. If anyone else has a minute, feel free to add a response as well. What are your suggestions for handling research help requests?
 * Who received the welcome message on their user talk page?
 * If you reviewed the articles that the welcome message links to, what are your opinions? What need improving? Do we have any volunteers to help improve the existing articles, write new articles, or look for other articles to link to from the welcome message?
 * Who posted a request for help by following the instructions in the welcome message? Please share your experience? How can this process be improved?
 * Who signed up to be a member of the welcoming committee? What feedback do you have in regards to your experience in being part of the committee?
 * Other questions or topics for discussion concerning this test?

Linking Error
Spotted this error message when getting USGS maps for my cemetery entrance photography project, Go to the Pima County Arizona artile, then go to the secdtion about cemeteries. When clicking on any cemetery name, you get the following error message in the window that pops up. I'm working on a Vista machine, in MSIE7 if that helps anyone.

Expecting p_company or wwv_flow_company cookie to contain security group id of application owner.

Error ERR-7620 Could not determine workspace for application (116).

OK

Are these links actually broken or is this a browser or OS issue?

Hopefully I'll get the photos tomorrow and upload them later. Won't be there Tuesday as I'm on my way home that day. JamesAnderson 19:12, 26 November 2009 (UTC)

Juar got rhw cemetery entrance pictures, will be uploading them later. A couple of them will prove to be very informative. JamesAnderson 23:08, 27 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I see the problem. The GNIS has been constant warning visitors NOT to link in this manner. You included "session id" and place name as part of it. Session ID will not work if anyone else try. The ones that DO work can be seen at several pages I worked on, one is shown on Baker City, Oregon.

Wrong:

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=116:3:827734824577216::NO::P3_FID,P3_TITLE:15257%2CAll%20Faiths%20Memorial%20Park All Faiths Memorial Cemetery

Right:

http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:15257 USGS GNIS FID 15257

dsammy 17:10, 1 December 2009 (UTC)