Community Wiki Support Meeting 3 April 2014

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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.

Kudos go to

Charles has done such a wonderful job on HTML and Wikitext lessons for our Missionaries. LaVera for Salesforce work

Priority items for this meeting:

New meeting time today - Issue with spam on Wiki brought to our attention.

• FamilySearch Wiki:Spam please review links -user Sgr2000 might not be aware that what he has been adding might be of issue

Clarification of differences of meetings-

• Support is "bells and whistles" of the Wiki- maintenance, what goes on behind the scenes.
• Contributors is related to content of the pages of the Wiki- adding and editing
• Missionary meetings held earlier on Thurs (missionaries experiences, spiritual thoughts)
• Wilma's content missionaries will join missionary support missionaries once a month
  • Her group all sit in SLC (one place)
• Team Lead meetings held (Mondays)
• Community Councils held weekly
• Agenda for Missionary meetings will be put in Yammer notes

 Updates and follow up

• Needed training:

• Training/new missionaries Volunteers

Elder and Sister Heeder will be starting their Wiki Training on Monday

Am in the process of setting up time to start work with Elder Chrispim

Robin inviting James and Jim to email her if interesting in getting more involved with the Wiki Support team and learning more of what we do.

• Maintenance Report - Sandra

• Tech updates
  

Patrolling and Salesforce Review

• Did you see anything while patrolling this past week that would be interesting to discuss with the team?

See what is being touched.

Catch potential attacks

Michigan in the Civil War broken links-LaVera

LaVera's been requested to write out directions on how to fix dead links on these pages - Charles asked her to write out directions and share with group (on Yammer so we can easily access)

British Census Template-LaVera

If you see a British census record area being edited while patrolling..look for a. before the paragraph. If you see that - go to Template:British Census and replace

Assignments

• What did you learn this week that you want to share?
• What do you need help with?
• Do you have questions or suggestions regarding others are working on?

• Moderator Support report

For next week:

• New Contributor Support report:  
  

Jim shared his page(s) - found one million bytes is the max for our pages alphabetical list worked on with nice graphics (for lack of a better word)

Locality & topics

Team Member	Support Assignments	Content Project	User Name
Barbara	Welcoming Committee		RogersBA
Blake	Volunteers, Overviews, Graphics		Tbreynaud
Charles	Non-English wiki, FHC Pages	Thurston County - FamilySearch Catalog, York County	Ccsmith
Diana	Adoption Committee	Colorado, Kentucky	Diana47judy
LaVera	Welcoming Committe new people, Categories	Help pages project-slow but steady.	Parrisl
Lee	Developing Training - Non-English, Tech	Non-English, Tech Training, SF Development	Ldrew
Linda	New volunteers	Submit Wiki Content	Lindachappell
Marilyn	Welcoming Committee
Mark	Volunteers	England Articles	Mlyandle
Myra	Moderators		Myrasueharris
Rick	Volunteers
Robin	Volunteers, Moderators, Training Lessons for New Volunteers	South Carolina Moderator, contributing to African American Research and Columbia, South Carolina	SavingStories
Sandra	Maintenance Training	Categorization	Sandralpond

Supervisor Training or Updates

Giuseppe :

Danielle B. will be taking over content of main page (as she has time allotted from her supervisor) - particularly regarding area for new users

Charles has been working on the looks of the main page with the widening of the pages expected to occur in the near future

Giuseppe shows group the new width - as an example

Caleb

Improve the Wiki

• GSWAC Liasion committee
• Moderator pages and form