Community Wiki Support Meeting 1 August 2013

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Priority items for this meeting:

 * Thanks to all who submitted hours for July. Please e-mail them or send Google doc if you have not.

Updates and follow up

 * Needed training: Namespaces, input about what training is wanted


 * Maintenance Report - Sandra


 * Tech updates- Lee
 * Using the ~ (tilde symbol) in a Google search.
 * Example: http://www.famhist.us ~tribble finds all mention of the name Tribble on this site.  Note the space between the URL and the tilde symbol.

Patrolling and Amdocs Review

 * Did you see anything while patrolling this past week that would be interesting to discuss with the team?
 * Need to clear old Amdocs cases before SalesForce.

Hazardous/vicious site found in recent changes. Make sure your virus protection/firewall up to date because we are one of the first to come across these items (virus and cookies being injected). Be careful of external links.

Thank you for working on recent changes and collaborating together. It helps us to


 * 1) See what is being touched.
 * 2) Catch potenial attacks

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?

Training

 * Follow To do as scheduled.
 * Be sure to cover your shifts and the assignments associated with your shift
 * Patrolling recent changes: Short pages under priortized categories (check the ones with zero bytes up to 30-40 bytes ).
 * Check for duplicates
 * Check for redirects
 * Check for misspells
 * Do not patrol indexing articles
 * Notify people that are blanking pages on best practices.


 * 4. Issues that arise when someone changes username.


 * 5. Clean up talk pages


 * 6. Recent changes


 * Hide patrolled edits
 * Click to see 500
 * Check page
 * Mark as patrolled
 * Use back button to go back to recent changes


 * 7. Cleaning up &amp;amp and &amp;nbsp (non break space) (REDUX)  Use CTRL-F and search for &amp;amp on Recent Changes pages if they are longer and the errant code isn't readily evident.


 * 8. Change preferences to display 500 recent changes by default.


 * 9. Maintenance templates that we use. See also Maintenance

Improve the Wiki

 * GSWAC Liasion committee
 * Moderator pages and form