FamilySearch Wiki:Community Meetings

Live FamilySearch Wiki Community Meetings

The Wiki Community offers several meetings to support you in using the Wiki as a tool in your family history research. You may connect with other researchers with more experience that are willing to give you research direction. A project leader may be willing to mentor you when you join a project. You may want to collaborate with the advanced technical community and make suggestions for improving the Wiki. Join us in any or all of the meetings that interest you or create one of your own! Project leaders are encouraged to post their project pages and meetings under Project Meetings below.

Within MeetingPlace, pressing # 5 on your telephone will mute or un-mute your ability to speak during the meeting.

New Wiki Contributors Training Meeting

This meeting is for family history researchers to learn all about contributing their knowledge to the Wiki to help make the Wiki a better place for doing genealogy research.

• Information & Agendas: New Wiki Contributors Training
• Time: Thursday 2:00 - 3:00 PM (Mountain Time) (4:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern)
• Format: MeetingPlace ID: 5252 Click to Attend Dial in numbers: 801-240-2663; (toll-free) 877-453-7266
   

Wiki Contributors Meeting

This meeting is to share best practices, ideas, tips, current issues, etc., for working on projects in the Wiki. Important community issues are also discussed as we help move things along to decisions.

• Information & Agendas: Wiki Contributors Meeting
• Time: Tuesday 1:00 - 2:00 PM (Mountain Time) (3:00 - 4:00 PM Eastern)
• Format: MeetingPlace ID: 7770; click to attend; Dial-in number: 877-453-7266
  

 

Technical Meeting

This meeting involves technical discussions about how the wiki works including technical issues, workarounds, strategy, and design.

• Information & Agendas: Wiki Tech Users Meeting
• Time: Tuesday 2:00-3:00 PM (Mountain Time) (4:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern)
• Format: MeetingPlace ID 7780
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Wiki Support Meeting

This meeting discusses issues relating to supporting and helping Wiki contributors and keeping the Wiki running smoothly.

• Time: Monday 9:30-10:30 AM Mountain Time (11:30-12:30 AM Eastern)
• Format: MeetingPlace ID 3232; click to attend or call 877-453-7266

Project Meetings

Wiki Project: Indians of North America

• Information & Agendas: Indians of North America Project
• When? — Contact Jimmy Parker for details.
• Format: Skype chat and email

Open to new team members, if interested.

Wiki Project: State of Idaho

• Information & Agendas: Idaho Project Meeting
• When? — Contact Jimmy Parker for details.
• Format: Skype chat and email

Open to new team members, if interested.

WikiProject FamilySearch Records

• Information and Agendas: FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject FamilySearch Records
• Time: Wednesday 1:30 to 2:00 PM  (Mountain Time) (3:30 PM Eastern)
• 1903 Click to Attend Dial in Number: 801-240-2663
• To mute or unmute your telephone, press # 5 on your telephone key pad.
• General meeting information: This meeting is held every first and third Wednesday of each month. The next meeting will be held on the 3rd of November, 2010. If you wish to help provide information and content to articles on the research wiki describing collections found online at FamilySearch Historical Records attend this meeting and help get this project off the ground.

Now open to new team members as of June 2010.

Wiki Project: Sweden

• Information Agendas: see Swedish User Group Meeting page
• When? — Every other Thursday @ 2:00 p.m. (Mountain Time) Room ID 0606. Contact Geoffrey Fröberg Morris for details.
• Format: MeetingPlace Meetings, Skype chat, and email

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