FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 27 March 2014

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Welcome
Welcome to Lise and Jim and Jane

Kudos go to
Charles Caleb and Giuseppe for working and they in turn kudos us for being patient

Updates and follow up
Metrics - Wilma:  We want to run metrics to find out if they are useful to people. See Wilma's Sandbox Question: What should we measure? Which links are being used, not being used?

Main Page - Working on clickable map. Needing to update articles on main page. We may develop projects for each area. Sidebar has been updated to include FamilySearch centers, Adopt A Page, etc.

Research Wiki - start page is in the process of being updated - loosing some of the boxes to tighten up the page

Skype vs Yammer vs Talk Pages some other medium to use for communication between all of us
 * Giuseppe shows how to join Yammer groups and edit preferences. Wiki Contributors is new group.

Moderators and Adopters

 * Conversation in the call:

Wiki Content
Have we finally decided to make changes to the opening Wiki page? Can we make changes and go live? Wilma would like to see usability pages. We did look at Popular pages to see the views of every page. Consensus..let's try going live and if anyone complains, send complains to GM.

Featured content - can we make that more visible? Is there someone who could take that on? Place that on the main page? How useful would this be?

Community Council Report
Jane (Community Council Chair) is working with a group of England missionaries preparing for FGS.

A group plans to go back to courthouses to see what records are not digitized. They are creating a document that lists all the projects that they hold. Will be in a form of an Excel spreadsheet. See Washington County, Ohio Courthouse Records