FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 6 June 2013

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Introduce new members

• Cecelia Wilbur - intern, works with Ben Fuller on Dorothy's team. Writing and research experience.
• Ian Edwards - moderator for Wales, retired head of IT in university. Member of Wiki community advisory council. Interest in technical side, correct coding. Ben Fuller is also going into web design
  

Moderators and Adopters

• Moderators to offer: Tips and best practices for resolving problems; questions and feedback
  • How much copy and paste is allowed from Genuki and Wikipedia? Books the data is from are gazetteers that are out of print. But Genuki has copyright of that version. Link to it.
  • If you can get hold of an original book and type it out, but to copy from their site.
  • Wikipedia is not copyrighted.
  • Why bother doing the Wiki, point straight to Genuki?
  • Paraphrase, cite, and point
  • The way the wiki will succeed is has to be better than the competing product. Not just a copy from a competing product.
• Discussion re: responsibilities, "super moderator,"....

Priority Items

• Question:  Are these 'Local Histories...at BYU Digital Archives' pages to be updated? For example, Local Histories of the United States on BYU Digital Archives, Pennsylvania - South Dakota. The books are now in the FamilySearch digital books, I believe, at least the ones I looked at.
  (MDianeRogers)
  • Check with US/Canada or Dennis Meldrum
  • Update? If so, but in different format. Table to large. Transpose - reverse column/row
• Demonstrate how to use ~ ~ ~ ~ on Talk pages.

Community Council Report

• Minutes

New Agenda Items

• Updates on FamilySearch Wiki Facebook page - Cecelia Wilbur. May - 3,000 fans! One week later, 3040. Can bring all the users/moderators together. Communities for FamilySearch and many others. Encourage to use facebook for moderator/adopter issues, etc. US/Canada rep can be added as an admin.
• Also FS Wiki Twitter page Twitter at "Records Wiki"

Be bold, post your agenda items! Feel free to post on the agenda any items you wish to discuss during the meeting. If your item requires details or feedback, post them on the discussion page and link to them from the agenda. Possible topics include: Moderator and Adopters Style Guide Discussions Project Help Requests Training Requests Improve the Wiki

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.