FamilySearch Wiki:Community Dialogue Chronological

Introduction

This is a month-by-month listing or summary of conversations between Wiki contributors which take place in meetings and forum threads. The purposes of this list include:

• Help the Community stay informed quickly and easily
• Document decisions: When they were made, how they were implemented and by whom
• Keep the guidelines updated. This includes Help content, Manual of Style, Projects, and more
• Call attention to ideas and concerns not yet decided, allowing the Community to prioritize action

January 2011

Note: This is the month the Wiki Contributor's meeting began. It was an outgrowth of the Tech meeting.

December 2010

Forum Threads Started

Moderators and Adopters

• Replacing a moderator or adopter?
• Relative stewardship of moderators and adopters
• Qualifications of adopters and moderators
• Encouraging User Participation on Adopted Pages
• Page Adopter category
• Moderators and Adopters: level of activity

• Forum Digest: a plan for reaching decisions, implementing ideas

• Affiliate links?
• Record Search Updates Archive
• How to account for Indexing when writing wiki projects?

Display

• Tennessee page restructure proposal
• Why the green border and { ?

Technical problems

• We're going to roll back the database. Recent changes will be lost.
• Vanishing edits

November 2010

Note: This is the month the Wiki Contributor's Corner forum began.

Forum threads started:

Moderators and adopters

• Should we have separate forums for Moderators, Adopters and contributors?
• Moderators - Sharing best practices
• Technical Volunteer duties

All contributors

• Avoiding Redundance while Meeting User Needs
• Recognition: Adopters, moderators, and contributors
• The Wiki Audience

Display

• Is your image (or map) too wide for a wiki page? Try making a scrolling image!
• Table too wide on a wiki page? Make a scrolling table!