FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 25 Oct 2011

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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

• Subpages – Clarification and possible policy change. Help:Subpages says: “By default, MediaWiki's subpage feature is turned off in the main namespace, but can be used on talk pages and user pages. See Help:Namespaces. In namespaces where the feature is switched off, any slashes (/) within a page name are simply part of the page name and do nothing special.”

The above paragraph seems to talk about two different things.

1. Where subpages can be used.  This seems to imply that subpages are only for talk and user pages.
2. The breadcrumb trail that can be automatically generated.  Should this be turned on for other types of pages? Judy 19:39, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

• What are all the FCK editor bugs? Can someone volunteer to add them to the Known Issues page and/or the Editing Tool pages

• Community Center - rework Comments re: Community Center
• Wiki Index is Convoluted?] Includes comments re: search problems
• Refining the Moderator's Role Check out the refined guidelines!

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Project Help Requests

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

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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 since last week Status of the wiki today Has a few work arounds for the problems. See also The wiki is back up! describing some issues since the Tuesday night maintenance. uploading histories in WORD format Gives sites where a family history can be uploaded to the internet. Help test the save function in the wiki During the poll, most were able to save. However TODAY, the best way to save is to keep trying. My first save of an edit has not worked today. Second attempt, usually. Once it took three times.AdkinsWH 17:38, 25 October 2011 (UTC) Stub Project Comments added since last week Community Center - rework What would you expect to find in a Community Center page, what do you see that's missing? Is it a Resource Page? have links to the "community" documents, perhaps in a list at the bottom of the page, like the Policies, Etiquette, Guidelines, Manual of Style, etc. there is a Policies Navbox that might work. Refining the Moderators role On today's agenda. Decisions made since last week

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