User group meeting & agenda 16 December 2008

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= Agenda =

Administrative items

 * 1) Assignment of time keeper and note taker
 * 2) Introduction of new members: 10 seconds for name and desired takeaways.
 * 3) Prayer --
 * 4) Review of Minutes (Jimmy Parker)

Information items

 * 1) User group meeting is cancelled next week (the 23rd). Have a great holiday!
 * 2) Update on committee meetings regarding article headings. See Maryland Newspapers (Michael)
 * 3) Using the wiki's ISBN functionality to reference a book. See Maryland Newspapers (Michael)
 * Bug: FCKeditor, the wiki's WYSIWYG editor, is breaking ISBN links. (Michael) See forum for discussion and potential fix. Thomas Lerman 20:05, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1) Finding the ISBN Number of a Book (Michael)

Discussion items

 * 1) What to do when a book you want to reference in a wiki article has no ISBN number. (Michael)

Carryover Items from Last Week's Action List

 * 1) Kip Enger will invite Mark Feickert to this meeting.

= Minutes =

Facilitator was [Add name here], Note taker was [Add name here], Time keeper was [Add name here].

Prayer by

This week, there are now [#] registered users of the FamilySearch Wiki. That is an increase of [#] new registered users over the last week.

Attendees
Michael Ritchey, Stephen Bobowski, Kip Enger, Jim Greene, Barbara Baker, James Anderson, Jimmy Parker, Baerbel Johnson, Mollie Forbes

Remote Attendees
(Anne Roach), Thomas Lerman, (Michael Ritchey), Lise Embley, Sister Debbie Edward

Items Discussed

 * Next Week's meeting (December 23rd) has been cancelled. Have a Merry Christmas!
 * A series of meetings are being held to discuss the suggestions for "best practices" for headings in record type articles. Michael Ritchey showed an example from the page for Maryland Newspapers. This is a very rough draft of a suggested approach to such articles. Michael has asked all the users to review this page on the Wiki, then go on the discussion page for that subject and provide feedback. Some of the things to consider include: are the headings in the proper order? Should other headings be considered? Is the wording of the headings the best?
 * Michael led a discussion on Wiki ISBN functionality. ISBN numbers should be added in the Wiki for all books that have them. Older books seldom have ISBN numbers, but often do have OCLC numbers of other identifying book numbers that would be more "world-centric" than just added FHL call numbers to those books. There are some problems with adding FHL call numbers into the Wiki, the most serious one being that a change in the FHLC directory will break all the links to FHL call numbers. It is better to add ISBN numbers (except that there seems to be a bug in the Wiki that breaks the ISBN link under certain conditions -- that bug is being worked on). ISBN numbers provide a much wider access to a book than does FHL call numbers which lead the users only to a book in the Family History Library, most of which do not circulate.

Action Items

 * 1) ALL MEMBERS OF THE USERS GROUP -- Review the sample page for a subject -- Maryland Newspapers -- and provide feedback by clicking on the Discussion tab and adding comments.
 * 2) ALL MEMBERS OF THE USERS GROUP -- In the next two weeks, try writing a records type page, choosing the headings that would most benefit the Wiki users.
 * 3) MICHAEL RITCHEY -- Work on a page regarding the proper etiquette for doing roll-backs on the FamilySearch Wiki.
 * 4) THOMAS LERMAN -- Prepare a demo on proper internal links for the meeting to be held on 30 December, including external links to internal pages.