FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 17 Jan 2012

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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.

Janell for being on the FGS radio broadcast chat, fielding questions. I saw Steve there, too. Not sure who else was there. Thanks! Lise 18:10, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Sandra Pond and the Wiki support team for bringing broken links down from over 4,000 to 30!

Thomas MacEntee has requested help developing a "getting started with the FamilySearch wiki" page for the FGS web site. I think it's a great opportunity to help facilitate societies' contributions to the wiki. He already has the link to the Contributor Help page. I'd love to brainstorm ideas for a page for FGS. Lise 17:54, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
Business Card - Carol and Darris
Report from James and Lise on their presentations this past week
Report from Nathan - Brainstorm ideas for a Widget/Button/Badge for libraries, societies, organizations to include on their pages that identifes them as being mentioned/featured in the FamilySearch wiki. See Maureen Taylor's blog for a Wikipedia example. Thanks to Fran Jensen for pointing this out. (Did we ever finish this discussion?)

Live Chat is up and running and we've received a few. Jane has added a template to some pages to make people more aware.

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User_talk:TrostLZ Would someone from Historical Records be able to look at this page and address the question from the contributor?

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Polls

New since last week

Press Releases in the Wiki Some press releases have been copied into the wiki verbatim. Finding and updating/integrating press release content might be a good project.
Wiki News Page New topics should go at the top, with the heading ending with the date.
Lists of LDS Wards on Utah Pages Lists of ward names without links appear on some county pages for Utah. Invitation to Utah Experimental County page and to Community meetings.

Comments added since last week

Decisions made since last week

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