The meetup sends out the list of new groups weekly. As a result, my Meetup group grows week by week. It now has 336 members. This kind of promotion could do a lot of good here too and it costs nothing except perhaps a 5-minute effort.

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 08:13 PM, Bill Hazel wrote:

Does anyone have a high participation wiki that non-subscribers can view?

There's no way to know how many people look at a wiki.? The one here on GMF probably is as good an example as any.? Yes, most of it has been written by a limited group of people, but more are beginning to assist.? I think that's mostly a matter of becoming familiar with how it operates.? Way back when, it started with a couple of simple pages and has evolved as things change.? You could say that it's mostly a huge FAQ since many pages are based on repeat questions on the group.

Duane
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Dan,

Dan, when i receive messages from groups.io through my gorge.net
account, the sender and subject do not appear as they do when i look
at the groups.io server.

I'm having difficulty visualizing just what your user is describing. Does "do not appear" really mean that they are missing, or does "do not appear as they do" mean that they look different (in some way that the user thinks is significant)?

However, when messages are received from AWORKOFMARC, the sender and
subject do appear. What is different about his account?

The word "from" in there puzzles me. Does he mean that when that specific other user (AWORKOFMARC) posts to the group that that user's messages come through to him with Subject and From intact? If so, how about other users? Or is it only his own messages that seem to come back missing these fields?

If he's talking of his own messages specifically, then have him report the email address next to the Unsubscribe link, at the bottom of the footer of one of his messages.

If he actually meant "received *by* AWORKOFMARC" that too is mysterious.
There are very limited ways in which the same message might be different when received by one member versus another member, and I believe that all of those are embodied in the Subscription page (choice of delivery format, choice of attachment size limit, etc.). Only the distinction between Individual, Digest, and Summary really has any impact on how Subject text and From (sender) information is presented.

I think Gorge.net came up in an earlier problem.

I didn't find any prior reference to gorge.net in GMF or beta, so I'm at a loss.

Absent more detail about what the user is actually seeing and how he is seeing it (using what interfaces) I can only speculate that any "fix" must reside within gorge.net. I am curious though, as I can't imagine an email system which "strips" Subject text and From information from email messages.

This is an issue with the way messages are shown on my account at the
gorgenet server and also when they are forwarded by gorgenet to my
outlook account on my computer.

Outlook is a strange beast (IMO), but not that strange. It is even less conceivable to me that messages presented in that application would be absent the Subject and From information - unless that info was somehow modified by the receiving service.

Shal


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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 07:41 PM, Christos G. Psarras wrote:

>> ... the System Help is not really my friend.? It lacks depth and doesn't have a Search field.

The Group Managers Forum wiki has a search box. When the system help works best, we link to it ?

Frances?

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Mike,

Has something changed recently?

Nothing relevant.

I have two emails that I commonly use and tried logging in as both in
case I forgot which I use for the admin but neither seems to have
admin privileges anymore!

When logged in with each, what does it say on the Home button? Does it show an "Owner" or "Mod" badge there?

If neither badge, is there some other owner or mod in the group who may have changed your Role to Member?

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Hi,

I setup my Group about a year ago and had no trouble at the time inviting members from the admin interface.? I logged into my account recently and the admin option seems to have disappeared and I can't find another way to invite new people or change member permissions.

Has something changed recently?? I have two emails that I commonly use and tried logging in as both in case I forgot which I use for the admin but neither seems to have admin privileges anymore!

Thanks,

Mike

Does anyone have a high participation wiki that non-subscribers can view?

I would be interested in seeing how the build-out looks, as well as answers to a couple questions:

1. Did you build out the "bones" first, creating a place to flesh out your information?
2. How did you promote your wiki or to what do you attribute your high participation rate?

Thank you in advance, really looking forward to seeing the results of my query.

Bill

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Dave,

>>> ... the System Help is not really my friend.? It lacks depth and doesn't have a Search field.

It's a single HTML page, so a search box would not really be useful as you already have the browser's built-in Ctrl+F search functionality.

However you are right, that page can really use some updating...

Cheers,
Christos

How do you know you have had more hits on your group? Do have a hit counter?

Don

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 04:50 PM, Dave - Webmaster wrote:

how do you change the Display Name of an invited member of the subgroup (who is not a member of the main group)

They can't be a member of the subgroup without being a member of the main group.? Just change it in the main group and it should carry over to the subgroup.

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 04:22 PM, Dave - Webmaster wrote:

they are listed without Display Names, and I can't find a way to add or change their Display Names

Go to the Members page and click on one of the folks in question.? Second area down is Display Name - fill it in, scroll to the bottom, and click Save.

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 04:20 PM, Su wrote:

is it possible to export archives as Mbox format or something?

I'm not sure, but I think there is/was a function for that, but it doesn't work.? In this case, "manually" means copy and paste or resend every message to the GIO group.

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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 04:12 PM, Jeff Coleman wrote:

Genealogy Groups from England and Wales

Thanks, Jeff.? I added the other group to the note in the Wiki.? If there are more groups related to this, it might be best if there were a separate page, but two lines doesn't seem to interfere much.

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Understood, but how do you change the Display Name of an invited member of the subgroup (who is not a member of the main group)?

Dave

Sorry, this does not work for me.? I have created a subgroup from my main group, and migrated most of the members of the main to the sub using Direct Add.? Then I invited a few more members, and when they accepted, only their email addresses show in Admin>Members.? Clicking on their member records results in a page saying the Display Name is "Not Set" and it is NOT EDITABLE!

By the way, for this relatively experienced Webmaster, the System Help is not really my friend.? It lacks depth and doesn't have a Search field.

Dave

I have created a subgroup and directly added most members of the main group. All of these directly added members have existing Display Names.

I have also invited others, but when they accept the invitation, they are listed without Display Names, and I can't find a way to add or change their Display Names.

Requesting assistance, thanks.

Dave Michaels
[email protected]

Well, as long as the web site HTML contains

<meta property="og:image" content="/img/logofull.png"/>

no link preview will show my group logo.

I made a wikipage?Monitoring Wiki Activity.
I am by no means an expert on the subject, I just gathered information from various messages on a few boards and tried to make sense of it all.
Anyone who sees either a mistake or notices missing content, PLEASE edit the page, help us all get smarter!