How to update the Meetings table

Dear all,

Before I shuffle off this mortal coil, I thought I'd better clear up how 
I keep the meetings table up to date on the (Semantic Media) Wiki.

It's auto-generated from the pages in the wiki. Agendas all include

[[Category:Meeting]]

in their source - that's the basic thing that gets copied along with 
everything else each time a chair creates the new agenda.

There's a bunch of annotations at the bottom of the page including the 
link to the minutes, the date and the scribe. This is almost always 
written as TBA when the agenda is published. Once the scribe is known, 
you can edit that bit of the agenda.

BUT

You'll notice that the listing on the Meetings page doesn't get updated 
just because you've entered this info. You need to force a page refresh 
by going to the Meetings page, click Edit, and then save as a minor 
edit. And voila - the scribe is updated.

NB, when it comes to F2F meetings, you can list minutes twice, e.g.

* [[Minutes:: https://www.w3.org/2017/06/26-dxwg-minutes]]
* [[Minutes:: https://www.w3.org/2017/06/27-dxwg-minutes]]

That works fine. See https://www.w3.org/2015/spatial/wiki/Meetings:F2F6 
and its listing on that WG's homepage.

Also, on the Meetings page, you'll see that you can add an offset so 
that only the most recent meetings are shown. For now, the offset is set 
to 0 but you'll want to increase that in due course. The [[Meetings 
Archive]] page includes everything.

Finally, if you want to send a link to the minutes after the meeting, 
they usually get looked at, especially the text snapshot. So here's some 
W3C Magic... add ",txt" to the end of any HTML page on w3.org and... 
you'll see that text version.

Hope that's all clear.

Phil


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Phil Archer
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Received on Monday, 26 June 2017 14:41:30 UTC