FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 26 July 2012

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Purpose of the meeting Improve the Wiki Forge solutions with other community contributors. Share best practices, ideas, and content. Discuss current issues, community matters, and strategies. Move issues to decision.

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Updates and follow up

• Discussion regarding how to mark paid sites.  Lee has created a couple universal graphics.
• Did we reach any consensus on the citation placement issue?

Business/Announcements

• Old project returning - Professional Genealogists on the Wiki - thoughts? Feedback? -- janellv (talk| contribs) 15:10, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

New Agenda Items

• We would like to publish a Wiki newsletter that would go to contributors, etc.  We would love to get your ideas for subjects that could be included.  Would the FHL like to contribute information on any of their projects?  Would any of you like to write a short article that could be included.  Also, do you think once a month is too often, or would every other month be a better schedule?averyld 20:28, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
• Discuss protect/unprotect (policy;https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Help:Protecting_and_unprotecting_pages)
  specifically to amend the policy to require "that pages be proposed for protection or un-protection. This would prevent situations where one user arbitrarily blocks all other non-moderators from editing without the input of others." as suggested by lotje2, et al 
  https://www.familysearch.org/learn/forums/en/showthread.php?p=67529#post67529  Ken Knight 18:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Forums Overview

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Current forum threads of interest: Polls New since last week Protecting pages on the wiki References in the wiki Comments added since last week Status of the Wiki today New Sign-in Option -- two weeks. Keep from getting kicked out. Kent Workhouse Records- a proposed Historical Records online collection From a parish clerk: If the invitation to contribute is to mean anything surely FamilySearch could identify the contents by locality of this collection? The existing page was formed using a basic template; the comments left indicate the weakness of this approach. Could this page please be revised as a matter of urgency in order that any former, existing or future contributor with local knowledge of the records might contribute. The page as it stands is of no information to anyone researching workhouse history in the county. I note the months that have elapsed since requests were made by a number of contributors. Decisions made since last week

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