FamilySearch Wiki:Council liaisons: Difference between revisions

Liasons: 4/24/2013: David Dilts (Username=DiltsGD), Robin Foster (Username=SavingStories), Wilma Adkins (username=AdkinsWH).

=== 19 June 2013 ===

 

'''Community Council''' - Wilma Adkins  

 

*Reviewed Community Council [[FamilySearch Wiki:Community Council/Minutes#June_12.2C_2013|minutes June 12]]  

*Problems with FHL template are being worked on  

'''Support''' - Robin Foster  

 

*Much progress. Consultants have access to spreadsheet so they can contact volunteers immediately. They have contacted 4-5 already.  

*A Beehive girl wanted to help. She is writing an article how can begin their family history.  

*Robin has access to adopters: they will be invited to the first meeting along with the moderators (July 11)  

'''GS-WAC''' - David Dilts (not present)  

 

*Cancelled indefinitely  

=== 5 June 2013 ===

 

'''Community Council''' - Wilma Adkins  

 

*Reviewed Community Council [[FamilySearch Wiki:Community Council/Minutes#May_29.2C_2013|minutes 29 May]]  

*Encouraged: when pasting from Wikipedia or Genuki or any other source, include the reference. In general, it is not the best practice to paste large blocks of materials from another site into the Wiki.

*Invitations were sent to moderators re:Thursday meeting. Some responses - some with status questions.  

*Lessons for volunteers, feedback given  

*New volunteers: emailing, staying in contact  

'''GS-WAC''' - David Dilts  

 

*Cancelled last week  

*Strategy pages by US/Canada: explaining in detail for how to find BMD for each state. Each one has already created at least one state page. User test them (a relative or someone), finish by end of July.  

*Suggestion: reinforce people before they start an article, search for similar pages, link, strengthen.  

**Wouldn't we want every page to be written in a way that the core concepts are contained there. Not a links dumping ground and it needs to be how to help people do their genealogy  

=== 22 May 2013 ===

 

'''Community Council''' - Wilma Adkins  

 

*Reviewed Community Council [[FamilySearch Wiki:Community Council/Minutes#May_15.2C_2013|minutes 15 May]]

 

*User page changed as above  

*Exciting week: Robin's stewardship is volunteers; has been in contact with them including "submit Content" has __ items that are being added; people with more expertise - would they like to accept this assignment?; many beginners, yet many are wanting to serve many hours per week; training lessons; recording their assignments (google spreadsheet) and monitoring (watch the pages) their contributions; getting them under the stewardship of the moderators; they are responding very well to their assignments;  

**Until they become comfortable with doing more on their own.  

**The ones contributing to a foreign country in English, encouraging them to contribute same content on the foreign language site  

*Holding pattern on moderators - getting the new volunteers in place, then going to activate the moderators to assume responsibilities  

**Creating a Google community for moderators so they work together.  

**Dennis Knox and Howard Camp have direct responsibility for moderators  

*About half-way through consultation process - giving them a small assignment so they are not inactive so we don't lose them.  

*2 main topics 16 May: 46 volunteers world-wide- 10-20 hours/wk; many interested in the already well-populated states - wanting to get them populated  

*SEO expert Luiz Bonilla: to improve the optimization -- asked for a county template to apply to all counties in US and Canada. Take to community and moderators before project  

**The suggestion from the Community Council to add the county at the end of each link would end up in penalizing by Google and perhaps other search engines, per David's understanding.  

**Certain things on a page that do not show up on a google search: probably what is in a table will not show.  

**Most important factor by far is the title of the page. The first 154 characters of text are very important to ranking. Other areas affect: links to other sites and links in from other sites; also how many are linking from Facebook, Twitter, etc.  

**Can affect google searches by selecting best key words. Genealogy is the best. Get a tool that will neutralize the history of your previous searches. David, Nathan, and others are working deeply with the SEO's now on many county pages.  

**Suggested on Utah SEOs - move the county formation later - since first 154 characters are most critical after the title of the page. is what ranks above comparative sites.  

**Subtle differences - dozens of other internet sites competing for attention. When there is stiff competition for the Google link (like Ancestry, Fold3, etc.)