FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 7 November 2013

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Welcome 

• Welcome to Cecilia fron User Guidance.  
• Annette Berksan - Louisiana Moderator

Moderators and Adopters

Louisiana

South Carolina

Washington

Massachusetts

African American

• Invitations are being sent to Yammer for the Research Wiki Group.
• Localities and Topics Spreadsheet  - Help from moderators
• Ghana genealogy contact

Conversation in the call:

• Issue:  Wales - People removing items who are not identified (no user page).  They are not responding to messages.  Charles will get with Ian and communicate back to Mark. (Wilma)

Link Supprt Team Member to Talk page of locality

• Louisiana - GenWeb for Louisiana Adoptions.  They are inactive.  This is an area we have been charged to work an overall.  Suggestion:  Recruit indivduals to adopt the page. (Annette) (new title being discussed, ex. sponsor). Adopt A Page
• Idea for moderator:  Share resources that you know about in an area on your page.  Share your addition out on social media. 

Updates and follow up

While editing the wiki the formatting all goes away when you save. You have ro roll it back for this to go away. Anyone seen this issue?

New Agenda Items

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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.