FamilySearch Wiki:Community Meetings

Live FamilySearch Wiki Community Meetings

The Wiki Community offers several meetings to support you in using the Wiki as a tool in your family history research. You may connect with other researchers with more experience that are willing to give you research direction. A project leader may be willing to mentor you when you join a project. You may want to collaborate with the advanced technical community and make suggestions for improving the Wiki. Join us in any or all of the meetings that interest you or create one of your own! Project leaders are encouraged to post their project pages and meetings under Project Meetings below.

Within MeetingPlace, pressing # 5 on your telephone will mute or un-mute your ability to speak during the meeting.

New Wiki Contributors Training Meeting

The first part of the meeting is training on a scheduled topic. The last part of the meeting is open for personalized help with questions you may have, or with projects you may be working on. Current Wiki news and concerns may also be discussed.  

• Information & Agendas: New Wiki Contributors Training
• Time: Thursday 2:00 - 3:00 PM (Mountain Time) (4:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern)
• Format: MeetingPlace ID: 6173 Click to Attend Dial in numbers: 801-240-2663; toll-free 877-453-7266
• To mute or unmute your telephone, press # 5 on your telephone key pad.
• General meeting information:

1. If you have experience with family history but are new to contributing to the Wiki, this meeting is for you! You may receive support in contributing to the Wiki, which helps others with direction in their personal research.
2. Project leaders with Wiki projects may find these meetings a good place to meet and recruit team members for your projects. New users will learn about the Wiki from you and other members of your project team.
3. The Family history community naturally reaches out to mentor and share our knowledge and sources with each other. As we do this, we experience the support of collaboration and the sweetness of success. Working together, we will find our ancestors!

Wiki Contributors Meeting

• Information & Agendas: Wiki Contributors Meeting
• Time: Tuesday 1:00 - 2:00 PM (Mountain Time) (3:00 - 4:00 PM Eastern)
• Format: MeetingPlace ID: 7770; click to attend; Dial-in number: 877-453-7266
  
• To mute or unmute your telephone, press # 5 on your telephone key pad.
• General meeting information:

The purpose of this meeting is to share best practices and ideas, get useful tips, and consider important Community issues and move them to decisions. What you discuss in this meeting and in the Wiki Contributors Corner forum will greatly impact the FamilySearch Wiki, it's end users, and contributors like yourself.

The agenda will deal with current issues, starting with the roles and functions of adopters and moderators. Everyone is invited to add any item to the agenda of a meeting.

Technical Meeting

• Information & Agendas: Wiki Tech Users Meeting
• Time: Tuesday 2:00 - 3:00 PM (Mountain Time) (4:00 - 5:00 PM Eastern)
• Format: MeetingPlace - Adobe Connect
• To mute or unmute your telephone, press # 5 on your telephone key pad.
• Archives
• General meeting information:

1. We discuss content, technical issues, workarounds, community, site design, and strategy.
2. This is the meeting for technical discussions concerning the Wiki.

Project Meetings

Wiki Project: Indians of North America

• Information & Agendas: Indians of North America Project
• When? — Contact Jimmy Parker for times
• Format: Skype chat and email

Now open to new team members as of May 2010.

Wiki Project: State of Idaho

• Information & Agendas: Idaho Project Meeting
• When? — Tuesdays @ 4:00 p.m. MDT most weeks; Room ID 3653. Contact Jimmy Parker for details.
• Format: MeetingPlace Meetings, Skype chat, and email

Now open to new team members as of May 2010.

WikiProject FamilySearch Records

• Information and Agendas: FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject FamilySearch Records
• Time: Wednesday 1:30 to 2:00 PM  (Mountain Time) (3:30 PM Eastern)
• 1903 Click to Attend Dial in Number: 801-240-2663
• To mute or unmute your telephone, press # 5 on your telephone key pad.
• General meeting information: This meeting is held every first and third Wednesday of each month. The next meeting will be held on the 3rd of November, 2010. If you wish to help provide information and content to articles on the research wiki describing collections found online at FamilySearch Historical Records attend this meeting and help get this project off the ground.

Now open to new team members as of June 2010.

Wiki Project: Sweden

• Information Agendas: see Swedish User Group Meeting page
• When? — Every other Thursday @ 2:00 p.m. MDT, Room ID 0606. Contact Geoffrey Fröberg Morris for details.
• Format: MeetingPlace Meetings, Skype chat, and email

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