Community Wiki Support Meeting 15 August 2013

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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

• Needed training:  Namespaces, input about what training is wanted

• Maintenance Report - Sandra
  

• Tech updates- Lee
  

Patrolling and Amdocs Review

• Did you see anything while patrolling this past week that would be interesting to discuss with the team?
  
  
  

Assignments

• What did you learn this week that you want to share?
• What do you need help with?
• Do you have questions or suggestions regarding others are working on?

Team Member	Support Assignments	Content Project
Blake -	Volunteers, Overviews, Graphics
Charles -	Non-English wiki, FHC Pages	Thurston County - FHL Catalog, York County
Dennis -	Moderators & Adopters	County Maps
Howard -	Moderators & Adopter, Welcoming Committee
Janell -		The Boss!
LaVera -	Welcoming Committe new people, Forum Transfer down	Help pages project-slow but steady.
Lee -	Developing Training - Non-English, Tech	Non-English, Tech Training
Mark -	Volunteers	England Articles
Rick -	Volunteers
Robin -	Volunteers, Moderators, Training Lessons for New Volunteers	South Carolina Moderator, contributing to African American Research and Columbia, South Carolina
Rorie -	New Missionary Training, Special Projects	Idaho & Native American Moderator
Sandra -	Maintenance

Training

1. Follow To do as scheduled.
2. Be sure to cover your shifts and the assignments associated with your shift
3. Patrolling recent changes: Short pages under priortized categories (check the ones with zero bytes up to 30-40 bytes ).

• Check for duplicates
• Check for redirects
• Check for misspells
• Do not patrol indexing articles
• Notify people that are blanking pages on best practices.

4. Issues that arise when someone changes username.

5. Clean up talk pages

6. Recent changes

• Hide patrolled edits
• Click to see 500
• Check page
• Mark as patrolled
• Use back button to go back to recent changes

7. Cleaning up &amp and &nbsp (non break space)

8. Change preferences to display 500 recent changes by default.

9. Maintenance templates that we use.  See also Maintenance

Improve the Wiki

• GSWAC Liasion committee
• Moderator pages and form

Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)