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=== Introduce new members === | === Introduce new members === | ||
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=== Updates and follow up === | === Updates and follow up === | ||
:* | :*New York project - they are working on defining tasks now. | ||
:*There are now reports available where we can watch and recognize contributors working on projects | |||
=== Business/Announcements === | === Business/Announcements === | ||
:* | :*We have a monthly newsletter that we send to Wiki Contributors. You are invited to submit items for inclusion in that newsletter. They can go to [[User:RitcheyMT|RitcheyMT]] on his Talk page. | ||
=== Style Guide Discussions === | === Style Guide Discussions === | ||
:*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Stub|Let's talk about stubs...]] [[User talk:Gbo17#Removal_of_stubs|This post]] on a user's talk page raised some questions about whether there were guidelines that were discussed but never added to the wiki about stub pages. -- [[User:VasquezJL|janellv]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:VasquezJL|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/VasquezJL|contribs]]}} 21:26, 4 October 2011 (UTC) | :*[[FamilySearch Wiki:Stub|Let's talk about stubs...]] [[User talk:Gbo17#Removal_of_stubs|This post]] on a user's talk page raised some questions about whether there were guidelines that were discussed but never added to the wiki about stub pages. -- [[User:VasquezJL|janellv]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:VasquezJL|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/VasquezJL|contribs]]}} 21:26, 4 October 2011 (UTC) | ||
::*The Stub process needs: | |||
:::* A new name to make it more clear (Steve cautions against renaming because of how much needs to be changed if we change that name) | |||
:::* A call out to contributors that might be interested in helping to expand stubs (Community Center) | |||
:::* More defined process to help people know what is/is not a stub article (or does it stay as "use your best judgment"? There could be such a variety of options, people like the latter option) | |||
Rorie, Jane, and Ken volunteered to take this on. Thanks! | |||
See [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikpedia:Stub Wikipedia:Stubs] | |||
:*When we copy a title from the Family History Library Catalog it copies with only a capital on the first word. To make the citiation correct, should we edit the title to reflect conventional title capitalization?[[User:McBrideLW|McBrideLW]] | :*When we copy a title from the Family History Library Catalog it copies with only a capital on the first word. To make the citiation correct, should we edit the title to reflect conventional title capitalization?[[User:McBrideLW|McBrideLW]] | ||
::The answer the community came to is that the citation titles should be capitalized based on the Chicago Manual of Style. Note that there is a difference between the style for page article titles and citation titles. There was a suggestion that our Wiki article titles guideline in the Manual of Style is not how we have been doing things, suggestion was to add that to the [[FamilySearch Wiki talk:Manual of Style|MoS Talk page]]. | |||
=== Project Help Requests === | === Project Help Requests === | ||
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/learn/forums/en/showthread.php?t=9707 Off site links] Concern about outside links that end up costing money. Yet people need to know what exists when it may be helpful. Convention is to put ($) next to the link to inform the user. | *[https://www.familysearch.org/learn/forums/en/showthread.php?t=9707 Off site links] Concern about outside links that end up costing money. Yet people need to know what exists when it may be helpful. Convention is to put ($) next to the link to inform the user. | ||
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*[https://www.familysearch.org/learn/forums/en/showthread.php?t=9627 US Wiki Projects] | *[https://www.familysearch.org/learn/forums/en/showthread.php?t=9627 US Wiki Projects] | ||
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