FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 3 Jan 2012

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Purpose of the meeting Improve the Wiki Forge solutions with other community contributors. Share best practices, ideas, and content. Discuss current issues, community matters, and strategies. Move issues to decision.

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Updates and follow up

• I'd like to add a follow up discussion concerning Business Cards for Wiki Page Adopters and Moderators, in particular, for the upcoming Rootstech conference. I have a document with some suggested card styles to be discussed. --Carol B. Moss 20:48, 27 December 2011 (UTC) 
• Has anyone used the "Share" feature to send a wiki article via email?  It isn't working, and I'm thinking probably hasn't been working for some time.  Since I didn't try it until October or November last year (when we had the email notifications issue), I assumed the problem was part of that issue, which is now resolved, I think.  Lise 19:35, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
  

Business/Announcements

• Support will be turning on their patron chat on Tuesday, 1/10/2012.  We will initially provide coverage Tuesday 11-5 and Wed-Friday 8-5.  evancol 16:07, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
• Brainstorm ideas for a Widget/Button/Badge for libraries, societies, organizations to include on their pages that identifes them as being mentioned/featured in the FamilySearch wiki.  See Maureen Taylor's blog for a Wikipedia example.  Thanks to Fran Jensen for pointing this out.  Lise 17:53, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Style Guide Discussions

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• The new Family History Archive viewer lacks a persistent URL for each scanned book. The URLs "are session based and only good for that browser and session" (quoting an engineer). To overcome this, there is a special URL that needs to be inserted: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid= . After the equals sign, add the IE# found in the URL for each book in the new viewer.
  
• Here is an example of a broken link (you can't copy and paste the URL from the browser):
  https://dcms.lds.org/view/action/ieViewer.do?from_proxy=true&dps_pid=IE63938&dps_dvs=1323814300276~211&dps_pid=IE63938&change_lng=en
  
• Here is a link that works: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE63938
  
• Here is a page that uses the new template: https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Bronx_County,_New_York#Death (see second paragraph in "Death" section - hyperlink to word "online"). Wikitext: {{FHA|IE63938|disp=online}} Murphynw 20:04, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

Project Help Requests

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Forums Overview

Be part of the solution! Make your opinions known! Post comments to an existing thread or start a new discussion at Wiki Contributors Corner forum.

Current forum threads of interest: Polls New past two weeks Community Wiki Support Meeting will be held 9 a.m. on Tuesday mornings. Daytime meetings, since they are best for most current participants. Newsletters will be used to keep other community members informed and evening meetings will come as more of the community get involved. MediaWiki internal error Underscore in user name causing log in problems? Comments added in past two weeks Status of the wiki today Issues are getting resolved more and more. See Known Issues for more info. Email issues to Support@familysearch.org with Wiki in the title so it gets to the right people.< "How to" articles on the Main page A person asked for help. Decisions made since last week

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