FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 16 May 2013
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Introduce new members
- Updating the discussions and proposals page
- Updating the discussions and proposals page
Kudos go to ...
Updates and follow up
Community Council Report
- Discussed the council minutes
- David talked about the Wiki in 2 presentation - immigration topics where Wiki was used.
Tom Jones thinks the Wiki will become one of the most important tools genealogists will use.
Business/Announcements
- New design for US state & country pages? -- janellv (talk| contribs) 18:16, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
- Balsamig was used to mock up the page.
- Premise: When people come to state/country pages, they don't pay attention to the topics column: redesign so it is organized differently -- the entire page becomes more of a table of contents. Result of personal experience in teaching people to use the Wiki.
- It was questioned whether the premise was accurate. Others on the call have not experienced the problem
- People who are used to the Wiki use the topics list; what about first-time users; eye tracking?
- User testing suggested
- Beginners in genealogy would look for birth, marriage, and death (and parents)
- Screen space (above the fold) is precious.
- Wiki is not for beginner to genealogy, but a Wiki beginner
- What about putting a navigation box at the top of state pages: so much on it would be intimidating
- Concerned that we sacrifice the usefulness for wiki users for the new wiki users.
- Most-used records would be above the fold. Really useful ones first. Pull those out is helpful.
- Careful with most usable. Most success under other topics. Researchers probably have already exhausted the commonly-used. It's the records that are not common and explanations
- horizontal layout is more intimidating.
- Play with it and have it user tested
- Mock up and test various ways
- Citation coding removed from Historical Records pages. Coverage tables added to HR pages. Dorothy Horan, User Guidance Supervisor 18:54, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
- Citation bibdesc coding has been removed for automated citations. Now they are created by Dorothy's group, and loaded manually. There is a generic default that appears until. They are "divorced" so the citation in the Wiki does not always agree. Working on it.
- When click copy, it starts right out with the url -- which is not the most important thing to the genealogist
- 21 coverage tables have been added to indexed collections. Have heard more comments about content of the table than the look of it. How generated: data that collection ops sent to Dorothy's team which they upload to the Wiki; Nathan did his manually. Gaps discovered. Feedback through FS or email HoranDM@FamilySearch.org
- The new link on the right Submit Wiki Content. Allows people to type content in, and someone will submit it.
- Kudos to Jane for the idea - finally it is on. Volunteers have been submitting. When Janell is ready with enough volunteers, have Nathan do a blog to advertise this.
New Agenda Items
Priority items for this meeting:
- Item: Collapsible Nav Boxes See Example on Mike Kehoe's Sandbox
- Goal for this item: Do we want to use them on the wiki?
- Steps to achieve this goal:
- Assignments and dates of completion:
- Evaluation date:
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