Karen, you have some great points. One every 6 months is not asking for
much. MANY CC's update daily or weekly. No patron likes to see stale
sites, they are craving information.
And most CC's would love to have a co-cc. I know I have some great ones
that helps add information or sometimes bale me out when I am tight on
time. I have found my best co-ccs just by putting in on the county
mailing list. If you think you have run out of info to put online, put a
request on the mailing list and beg for obits, photos anything to stir up
interest in your county.
Jane Keppler
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 7:45 PM, Karen De Groote <iagenieme(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Nancy,
If we have rules and a site is not brought in to compliance with the
rules within a certain time period, the CC can be fired through
delinking. Meaning the state site no longer lists that site as the
official county site. It is not necessary to pursue a password
because our sites are our own and as a member of the organization we
are given the right of identifying ourselves as USGenWeb and MTGenWeb
counties. Once a site is delinked they must remove both of those
designations. There is no nagging involved. In another GenWeb
organization I am involved with, we have much more stringent rules of
performance.
I am sorry to hear that you feel one new item in six months is
excessive. It could be a photo, or an obit or something not too
taxing although we all would love to add full transcriptions of
something. Every tidbit helps make our sites better. I realize that
Teton has amazing data and might not need to add transcriptions of
anything but there are always little things that freshen our sites.
I agree that broken links should be attended to as a first but "also"
order. Everyone can download Xenu, which is a free link checker. It
will save your eyes as well as time and tell you what links may have
gone bad over time. This enables you to quickly find and correct
broken links. I usually print out my report and then mark it off when
it has been changed and uploaded. Xenu makes it simple for me.
I don't think anyone wants to upset a fellow CC and I hope everyone
will be looking at the every 6 months rules as a positive and they
will take pride in their site. I know this discussion and rule has
definitely got me fired up again. I was getting lazy.
Best Regards,
Karen
On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 6:02 PM, Nancy Thornton <nancetho(a)montana.com>
wrote:
> I vote no on the 6 months requirement.
> Nancy
> Teton County
> Reason: While I believe that our polices should have an update
> requirement, I believe 6 months is too high a goal, especially after
> viewing a sample of our websites today. One county hasn't seen any work
in
> nine years, and even our state page has bad links and out of date info.
>
> So once a year is better, I think.
>
> Added to that, we don't have a penalty for not checking for bad links,
> except maybe nagging. What good is that? The other option is to put that
> site in a fishbowl, point out the problems. Do we want the trouble of
> getting the password and taking over the site?
>
> I urge our discussion to focus on a formal way of pointing out the bad
> links and urging the webmasters to fix them, the goal being "current"
> rather than "new stuff". This is genealogy, after all.
>
>
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