FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 29 March 2011

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Purpose of the meeting To forge solutions with other community contributors. To discuss content, community, best practices, current issues, and strategy.

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Introduce new members

Randy Hoffman

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Business/Announcements

• New page for Suggestions for Engineering - please add the suggestions that you care about! Also discuss process and ideas for prioritization janellv

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 Please vote! Should we subscribe new Adopters and Moderators to this forum by default? Poll closes April 5th. Should adoption of a well-developed page be decided by its original contributors? Poll closes April 3rd. Should Adoption sign be @ top or bottom of adopted pages lacking infobox/topic box? Poll closes April 3rd. New since last week Tab Header Templates Interesting templates were found in Wikipedia. Check it out and comment. [Display on a page the number of edits made by a group of users? Wanting to know if there is software that will do this. Pennsylvania page Links are now working. Comments added since last week Wiki Talk — Dialogue summary: Need for your input Thank for the ideas so far! English Contributors English "barnraising" project. Question of procedure and policy Over 100 pages of individual histories added Purpose and Appropriate Topics http://forums.familysearch.org/en/showthread.php?t=6378 Continuum of Engagment] Should we have substantial prerequisities for moderators? Identifying a page's adopter or moderator List of people Simply informs that the page Try another wiki has been updated with info from the forums. Moderators and Adopters: level of activity Outstanding discussion items (Forum issues, Policies/Manual of Style, etc.) Citations Some people are wanting this discussed today.

Project Help Requests

Need help with your project? See a project that needs to be done? Add it here:

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Offers of Help

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Improve the Wiki

• Patrolling items: janellv

• Process of notification of problems with content
• Patrolling volunteers?
• Patrolling Skype chat?

• Citations Randyhoffman

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