FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Meeting Notes: Difference between revisions

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=== 7 Dec 2011  ===

**Patsy will delete the original meeting and create a new one some time in December for the meetings that will start on January 10.They will be weekly for as long as we need them.  

***here will be a 6-month wiki project from Jan-Jun where recruits will complete assigned tasks from project page.  

**Dawne will also send an email to invite people to participate. In the invitation, anyone who has ever contributed to the Utah wiki will be invited.She will CC other committee members.<br>

**Wilma has info on UGA members by zip code, emails and addresses. we will review that list to see what kind of coverage we have throughout the state, and perhaps make some personal invitations to UGA members in strategic places.We would like to know how many there are and in what counties they fall.<br>

**5-10 minute overview and news  

**10-15 minute training  

**If there are meeting attendees who sign on late, it may be helpful to repeat at the end of the meeting some things that were said in the beginning. <br>

*Dawne has two missionaries on her team training volunteers. She has contacted the people who volunteered from Logan. When we get the meeting set up, we will invite them.  

*Marilyn has had experience with populating cemeteries in the States on wiki. That gives her some idea of what is needed in Utah cemeteries. She has also had experience working with volunteers and writing wiki instructions for them. She knows more than most how to write step-by-step instructions without being wordy.<br>

*Wilma will continue creating a Progress Chart for Utah wiki tasks.She will also link a description of the tasks to the chart  

*We need to plan recruiting efforts.

*Our first heading will be Quick Facts  

*Don't delete any headings when no info found for them on county pages. Instead note that no data was found. It might eventually be a valid heading

'''Show and Tell''' accomplishments and follow-up from last week  

*WA reformatted and copied Beaver County on it's talk page. Will discuss in meeting  

*MJM Utah adoption sign: report of Diane Loose's reply  

*Wilma can now add pages!!!!  

*From Sep 7: Wilma did not yet get with James Tanner nor dsammy  

*From Sep 7: Wilma will finish the Cemeteries task for acceptance next week -- Not done  

<br>'''Agenda items''' for today's discussion  

*LDS will need its own brainstorming.  

*Danielle is organizing a contest for wiki content that will take place the beginning of 2012 after NY,  

'''Information/Discussion Items'''  

*Immediate: Write for Crossroads -- a WikiProject Utah article send it to Gina Ortega. Just an update on what we're doing. Inviting.  

*Patsy and Marilyn will schedule a room. And Dawne will set up meetingplace.

**What specifics shall we cover?

*Wilma is going to Logan FH Conference On Octoberr 15. Perhaps Dawne and Patsy will go with her. Fran is presenting about wiki.  

*Project pages need to say something about being UGA.

'''Assignments'''  

*Marilyn will conduct next week's meeting in Wilma's absence

=== 31 Aug 2011  ===

'''Show and Tell''' accomplishments and follow-up from last week  

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Hows#Guidelines_for_Including_Links_.28or_Not.29|Guidelines]]: Wiilma started the page of guidelines to help contributors determine what sites we link to according to quantity/quality of information. We edited the first few and were assigned to go through the rest separatele and return with suggestions.  

'''Agenda items''' for today's discussion  

'''Assignments<br>'''MJM: Change the page adoption template so it invites people to contribute, not to adopt a page. She will also contact Steve Cotrell to see if you can connect to a sujject on the catalog.  

WA will do everything else  

*[[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Hows#Guidelines_for_Including_Links_.28or_Not.29|Guidelines]] are started for quantity/quality of sites we link to. Review these for next meeting.  

'''Agenda items''' for today's discussion  

'''Parking lot''' for future (These are carried forward until discussed)  

*Do we want to set some guidelines about how many entries a site should have before it is linked to?  

**If the county has a lot of resources, we would not do one with only 3. Guidelines: time of making the link, value to the user, importance in relation to other sources. You make the choice, but explain to the user.

*Meetings needed with the Utah/LDS experts.  

**LDS wards and branches ultimate: 28 Sep  

'''Show and Tell''' accomplishments and follow-up from last week  

**Did it cause clutter on the page, or was it misleading, making someone believe there was more info available than there was?  

**How good was the coverage?  

**Consider the place  

**If a record with few entries was listed, it shouls appear lower on the list

*Follow up: Pat - would she listen to recordings or are minutes sufficient? Probably not. but each week we will ask to see if she will be able to sign in remotely.  

*Follow up: Church records project at county level. See first draft of ideas. (Word document)

**Illinois community has decided to put all repositories, including court houses, as well as societies and museums at the bottom of the page. And they've reorganized the repositories' grouping. Their thinking is that users want records - especially online ones - before they want to know repositories, We do not have to follow this lead. In fact we will not worry about that at this time. Instead we will focusing our time on content. Organization will come later.  

**One decision Illinois made that we don't like is to make many Level 2 heading. Supposedly text and pictures can wrap around them, but this is not the case. Also they chose a heading to begin the county page content that doesn't make sense in the content of the content that follows. The heading was "[County name] County Organization." Then what follows i a table listing when varios record types began. Patsy will, however, get wid of level 2 headigs in usah.

**Use bullets for each item?  

**List statewide items under each county? or link to a page that lists them?

*Dawne schedule a physical place to meet.  

*Possible change in meeting time to allow Pat to attend. A possible time is 2:15 on Tuesdays, Wilma will attend through MeetingPlace.  

*Dawne Set up Meeting Place so it is recorded.  

**Results: MeetingPlace was set up. Verify that it is automatically recorded. It will be recorded except when we don't use Meeting Place, like today.<br>

**Results: Done. It is called WikiProject Utah Meeting Notes.

*Wilma read Patsy's article about the Utah adopting for UGA Crossroads.  

*Wilma update the instructions for linking as discussed in the meeting.  

**Results: Done. See [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Hows#Adding_Links|Adding Links]] Dawne is testing the instructions to see if they are clear and correct.

**Results: Made a number of changes, especially to ''Where to find the information'' [[FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Utah Tasks County History|Tasks County History]] I believe the task got a little easier to accomplish.  

**Please review them and comment on the discussion page and sign with four tildes.  

*Wilma will add a section called "Tasks Waiting in the Wings".  

**Results: Done. See the WikiProject Utah page.

• Dawn suggested: o Wilma take charge of the meetings – we agreed o Dawne contact Christina to schedule a permanent room – we’ll hear back from her o Dawne schedule MeetingPlace. Record the meetings - We’ll hear back on this item o We have an agenda. – Wilma will create a place on wiki for this • Possible change in meeting time to allow Pat to attend – Tuesday at 2:15 p.m. – We’ll clear this • Patsy created an article about Utah adopting wiki for Crossroads. Marilyn helped edit it but did not see the final draft yet, Dawne shared it with her team, Wilma will read it. It was shared with Pat • Wilma brought her guidelines for writing on wiki at “wikiproject Utah hows” out of obscurity when she shared them. They will be linked to the project pages. We suggested a few changes there in the instructions for adding links o Changing a few words o Listing the instructions as 1,2.3.4, so volunteers know they must do all of them • We focused on the county history project page especially the instruction to create a history. Wilma tried out her own instructions and decided that creating a table was too difficult. We suggested creating a bulleted list. It looks nice, is fairly straight forward in the text entry option, can be expanded, allows inserting • Wilma proposed that on the admin page there be a place for projects in the wings. • We will post our minutes on the wiki  

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