Community Wiki Support Meeting 15 May 2014: Difference between revisions

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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.

Welcome[edit | edit source]

New Attendees:
Kudos go to: Jim Landucci for working with Linda

Training Spotlight[edit | edit source]

Sandra: Uncategorized pages

duplication - add {delete} template (two brackets on either side). Keep the one with the best detail.
Given a choice - pick the most specific category so as not to fill up the major category.
Categories cannot be moved.
Once a name is given a page, and then deleted, the name cannot be used again
photos placed with name of file between double braces. Size in px comes after a pipe (pica)
Find pages to place photos
Demonstration of working in Wikitext - changing external links to internal links

Myra: Taught how to write short articles for red links

spoken of - similar to

The Etobicoke Family History Portal is getting a facelift. Please bear with us whilst this process evolves, and stay tuned for loads of great content to assist with your Family Research.

Please add any comments to the talk page.

Priority items for this meeting:[edit | edit source]

New items to discuss[edit | edit source]

//familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Share_your_knowledge_by_adding_to_the_Wiki
This page should be updated to show the new “VisualEditor” so this article is ready when it first comes online.

Charles to review

Discussion regarding legality of screenshots with new editor - Caleb to check with legal department. James Tanner may also know the answer. It might also vary by vendor.

Supervisor Input[edit | edit source]

Giuseppe:on vacation
Caleb:learned about gradien coloring. Shared his mock-up again
Support Mission Lead - Charles:

Team Lead Update/Followup[edit | edit source]

Technical Lead - Charles
Training Lead - Sandra
Community Lead- Robin
Content Missionary Lead- Wilma/Bo
Secretary-Linda

Uncategorized pages under 4600

Recent changes - more team members need to spend time on
Charles <--- can you fix the licensing of this page

Other Reports[edit | edit source]

Welcoming Committee - LaVera
Maintenance Report - Sandra
Moderator Report - Myra-
New Contributors Report - Robin

Patrolling and SalesForce Review[edit | edit source]

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

2: What has been seen being touched/worked on.

3: Any potential attacks?

Assignments[edit | edit source]

1: What did you learn this week that you want to share?

2: What do you need help with?

3: Needed training?

I have been finding more than a few links that could be internal, yet are coded as external.

We need training again on turning an external link to an internal link. Please show in Wikitext how to make the change.

Here's a page to demonstrate - it's one Robin did WAY BACK WHEN. Look for Robin Foster's name FamilySearch Wiki:Reviewer Approval Procedures

and another - to see the differences I placed an internal below the external Community Wiki Support Meeting 17 April 2014 4: Do you have questions or suggestions regarding what others are working on?

Improve the Wiki[edit | edit source]

Current Wiki Projects we are focusing on[edit | edit source]

Suggestions for Other Focus Projects[edit | edit source]

Additional Suggestions for Wiki Improvement[edit | edit source]

More workers needed on recent changes

Followup For Next Week:[edit | edit source]

Team Member	Support Assignments	Content Project	User Name
Barbara	Welcoming Committee		RogersBA
Bob Heeder			Bald Eagle
Charles	Non-English wiki, FHC Pages	Thurston County - FHL Catalog, York County	Ccsmith
Diana	Adoption Committee	Colorado, Kentucky	Diana47judy
LaVera	Welcoming Committe new people, Categories	Help pages project	Parrisl
Linda	New volunteers	Submit Wiki Content	Lindachappell
Marilyn	Welcoming Committee		Marilynbgardner49
Myra	Moderators		Myrasueharris
Rick	Volunteers		fritty
Robin	Volunteers, Moderators, Training Lessons for New Volunteers	South Carolina Moderator, contributing to African American Research and Columbia, South Carolina	SavingStories
Ruth Heeder			Bob heeder or Clanheeder
Sandra	Maintenance Training	Categorization	Sandralpond

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 === Welcome  ===
 New Attendees: <br>
-Kudos go to:
+Kudos go to: Jim Landucci for working with Linda
 === Training Spotlight  ===
-:*Sandra:
+:*Sandra: Uncategorized pages
-:*Myra:
+*duplication - add {delete} template (two brackets on either side). Keep the one with the best detail.
+*Given a choice - pick the most specific category so as not to fill up the major category.
+*Categories cannot be moved.
+*Once a name is given a page, and then deleted, the name cannot be used again
+*photos placed with name of file between double braces. Size in px comes after a pipe (pica)
+*Find pages to place photos
+*Demonstration of working in Wikitext - changing external links to internal links
+:*Myra: Taught how to write short articles for red links
+:[[File:Icon-warning.png|50px|File:Icon-warning]] spoken of - similar to {{inuse}}
 === Priority items for this meeting:  ===
 === New items to discuss  ===
 :*//familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/[[Share your knowledge by adding to the Wiki|Share_your_knowledge_by_adding_to_the_Wiki<br>]]This page should be updated to show the new “[https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/VisualEditor '''VisualEditor''']” so this article is ready when it first comes online.
+::Charles to review
+::Discussion regarding legality of screenshots with new editor - Caleb to check with legal department.  James Tanner may also know the answer.  It might also vary by vendor.
 === Supervisor Input  ===
 :*'''Giuseppe''':on vacation
-:*'''Caleb''':
+:*'''Caleb''':learned about gradien coloring. Shared his mock-up again
 :*'''Support Mission Lead - Charles:'''