FamilySearch Wiki:Council liaisons

Liason meetings: Bi-weekly on Wednesdays, 10:30 a.m. on alternate weeks of GS-WAC and Community Council. Click to join the meeting, 9:00–10:00 a.m. Wednesdays (Mountain). Meeting ID: 0424, click Attend Meeting

Liasons: 4/24/2013: David Dilts, Lynda Avery (until May 2), Wilma Adkins. New liason for Support (May 8) is Robin Foster (instrumental with getting our presence on Facebook, blogger, etc.) replacing Lynda Avery.

Purposes:

• Transparency: Making an effort to be open about activities in order to avoid surprises and duplication of effort.
• Improved communication: Each group needs to know what is going on with another group. Also the community.
• Collaboration: Hope to generate synergy, pool ideas, work together on projects.

We review/understand/ minutes from Support, GS-WAC, and Community Council and report back.

8 May 2013

Colors -- school bus yellow, fuchia -- not appropriate - more pastel background. Moderator can suggest to the person. (is this on the Moderators' list of responsibilities?)

2013 April 24

Discussed purposes GS-WAC issues:

• Global maps -- David will ask
• Strategy -- to help management know we are trying to reach beginners;
• Business reports -- working on this with Janell and others
• Wiki page formatting -- Where to place a table for beginners, and other formatting problems.
• Metadata for Historical Records -- working on a way to generate the metadata by computer; purpose is to bring users to the pages. On the verge of that happening now, will shorten the time and make a better process.
• Volunteer pages -- a form was put on by Support and have over 30 signed up. Some look very trained.
• Photo uploads in Wiki: Support trying to get engineers to make it more instructive re: license, etc. -- at top of list when "new skin" problems are fixed. -- no search box, tables were a problem; wiki has so many convoluted pieces, makes it difficult. Wider screens created a lot of (wasted) blank space, images were coming up huge again.
• Moderator things to do page: Support has made some changes to the page, have taken the questions off the page and sent them directly to the form. (Lynda did this in the last few days.)
  • Support will be sending a mass mailing to recruit moderators and contact them on a 1/1 basis.
• Digital Online Collection pages: Pretty good for US, 3-5 European countries now have similar pages; placement on the page
• Main goal of the GS-WAC: what are the priorities? One is to get a higher % of FamilySearch Center staff using the Wiki

Community WAC

• Moderators and adopters need to be aware of or involved in even small projects that missionaries are doing.
  • Some projects are global -- should all of them be notified? Creating the project, then asking is sometimes unavoidable, but for the most part first contact is better.
• Missionary projects need to heed to the information already present. Use the dispute and resolution process.
  • If it is put on the talk pages, the support missionaries patrol the talk pages and bring issues to a knowledgeable person to check them. This process calls the attention and gets them to where they can be helped.
  • Also use the email function to that person to alert them.
  • Or put it their user talk page. It must be saved twice, if they don't have a talk page, in order to bring it to the attention of Support.