FamilySearch Wiki:Technical Meeting

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Purpose and Time Come forge solutions with other community contributors. We discuss content, technical issues, workarounds, community, site design, and strategy. This is a conference call meeting every Tuesdays from 2:00-3:00 PM (mountain time). Community members are welcome to suggest topics for the agenda by posting in the Community Meeting Forum thread or by adding the suggestions to the weekly agenda discussion pages.

Upcoming Meetings

• 8 May 2012 agenda:

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Past Meetings

• 10 January 2012 agenda:
• 17 January 2012 agenda:
• 07 February 2012 agenda:
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• 1 May 2012 agenda:

Purpose of the meeting To forge solutions with other community contributors. To discuss technical issues, workarounds, community, site design, and strategy.

Agenda

Recognition

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Announcements

News items can now be found on the Community News page in the Wiki.

• Questions?
• Comments?

Discussion Items

Technical Issues & Workarounds

• Saving in Preview mode but not transferring over to the page. Similar if not the same problem reported the last few weeks when editing. Got this message today, first time I've seen it with this error.

Preview

Sorry! We could not process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please try again. If it still does not work, try logging out and logging back in.

Strategy

Be bold! Post your agenda items! Feel free to post on the agenda any items you wish to cover during the meeting. If your item requires details or feedback, post some details on the discussion page and link to the discussion from the agenda.

• To view meeting notes and listen to recordings from past meetings between 2008-Q1 2011, please visit the archive page

Historical Perspective

The community meeting started off as a user group meeting with a lot of the discussions centered around the early development of the wiki. Currently the meeting is centered around some of the technical aspects of the wiki, development of the content and procedures. Some of the attendees that have regularly attended these meetings both past and present include: Jimmy, Lise, Laralee, Thomas, JamesA, SteveC, Chris, Dsammy, JudyW, DonS, The Earl, Bromaelor, Michael, Alan, Baerbel, Bakerbh, LynnT, AnneW, KaraW, Diltsgd, Familyjournals, DavidC, G Fröberg Morris, Genguide, Molliewog, RoachA, Darris, Gina, MarkS, Wilma, Warren , Janell, Charles. If anyone was missed, please update this list!

Stay Informed Stay informed by visiting the FamilySearch Wiki Forum or the Wiki Known Issues page. The following three pages were historically used for communication needs related to the early development of the Wiki and are not being used at this time. However, as development of the wiki continues, these pages may be used in the future: Wiki Development Backlog (Note that DevNet is no longer being used by engineering. Issues and possible bugs should now be reported by clicking on the "Help" link at the top of the window. This link will take you to FamilySearch Help Center.) FamilySearch Wiki:Project backlog New Features

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