FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Social Media

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Revision as of 17:59, 1 February 2013

This is the Social Media WikiProject page. A focused community effort to create or revise content relating to a single topic.

Scope

To develop information in the wiki about how to use social media as a resource for research.

Contributors

Userbox for WikiProject Social Media This user is a participant in WikiProject Social Media.

• Steve
• Fran
• Mike

Project members: you can also add {{User WikiProject Social Media}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project and add your name to the Category:WikiProject Social Media participants.

Tasks

Genealogy Research Communities (GRC) Content

• Evaluate & move content from GRC Admins Google Site
  1. Move relevant data to the wiki in a way that applies to both GRC admins and the broader audience (complete)
     
  2. Shut down and delete Google Site (awaiting deletion)

• Add badges to the relevant geographic wiki pages that link to the Facebook community pages
  1. Get the GRC badge here.
  2. What pages already link to the badge?
  3. Add ?cid=GRCW_[Community] to the badge link
     Example:
     {{FacebookGRC badge
     | layout = vertical
     | link = https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkGenealogy?cid=GRCW_NewYork
     }}
     
  4. Status: All English speaking communities linked (as of 1 May 2012)
• Create and post new training content (training screencasts etc.)
  1. Taking suggestions for short video trainings through admin group or Discussion page

• Read the following Google Docs and include their content in the wiki (in your own words) as appropriate
  1. Opening the Doors to the Community(pending help)
  2. Getting the Facebook Community to Engage(pending help)
  3. Seven Effective Elements of a Post Add to: Facebook (complete)
• Other training content
  
  1. Add Six Principles of a Viable Genealogy Research Community (complete)
     
  2. Add Walker History Room Uses GRCs content to wiki as part of a new news and successes section (complete)
  3. Add Community Building Ideas from Google Site to Discussion page to save and jump-start the conversation (complete)

Communicating New Facebook Pages and Skype Groups

• Establish a way to communicate new Facebook pages.
• Establish a way to communicate new Skype Groups.

Categorize current Wiki pages into the Social Media category

• Pages needing to be added to the category include the syllabi for several classes taught at conferences

Templates

WikiProject Templates

Code	Result
{{WikiProject Social Media}} Template showing an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. Placed at the top of talk pages, not articles.	WikiProject Social Media   Social MediaFamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Social MediaTemplate:WikiProject Social MediaSocial Media articles v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Social Media, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Social Media on FamilySearch Research Wiki. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
{{Social Media-stub}} Stub notice for Social Media articles; placed at the bottom of article pages	This Social Media-related article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.

Categories

• Category:WikiProject Social Media articles
• Category:Social Media