FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 29 Nov 2011

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Updates and follow up

 * Foreign Wiki's - need help with translations Rob Thomas from BYU will provide some help from BYU students

Business/Announcements

 * Lise is official FamilySearch employee as a member of the Community Catalyst committee, getting people into the contributor status

Project Help Requests

 * Need help with your project? See a project that needs to be done? Add it here:
 * Need translators for foreign wiki's
 * There might be a need for people who can help with Thai language, in the future

Training Requests

 * New missionaries will be training in January. Contact Rorie or Elder Whiting if you have someone who would like to be a missionary for the Wiki

Improve the Wiki

 * Guidelines need to be updated to reflect in User pages.
 * Regarding the RusGenproject page - Lise will contact the contributor to lead them to a better way to contributing to the Wiki. The page is blatant advertising, which does not fit the scope of the wiki.
 * Darris suggested a committee to work on updating the User page guidelines and he will chair that committee and will enlist others to help with regard to advertising on pages
 * Historical Records pages problem with going to the bottom of the page- appears that it could be in the template, but we can ask in the Tech meeting also. Ken will post on Known issues page.

Forums Overview

 * Be part of the solution! Make your opinions known! Post comments to an existing thread or start a new discussion at Wiki Contributors Corner forum.