FamilySearch Wiki:Contributors Meeting 16 May 2013: Difference between revisions

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*Discussed the council minutes  

Tom Jones thinks the Wiki will become one of the most important tools genealogists will use.

**When people come to state/country pages, they don't pay attention to the topics column: redesign so it is organized differently -- the entire page becomes more of a table of contents

**Questioned that the premise was accurate. Personal experience in teaching people to use the Wiki. Others have not experienced the problem

**eye tracking - people who are used to the Wiki use the topics list; what about first-time users. Can we integrate the links into sections on the page --

**User testing -- they would look for birth, marriage, and death -- (and parents)

**Concerned that we sacrifice the usefulness for wiki users for the new wiki users.

**Idea: when researching for a certain record type

**Most-used records would be above the fold. Really useful ones first. Pull those out is helpful.

**Careful with most usable. Most success under other topics. Researchers probably have already exhausted the commonly-used. It's the records that are not common and explanations

**Program called [http://www.balsamiq.com/ Balsamig] was used to mock up.

*Citation coding removed from Historical Records pages. Coverage tables added to HR pages. [[User:HoranDM|Dorothy Horan, User Guidance Supervisor]] 18:54, 16 May 2013 (UTC)

**Citation bibdesc coding has been removed for automated citations. Now they are created by Dorothy's group, and loaded manually. There is a generic default that appears until. They are "divorced" so the citation in the Wiki does not always agree. Working on it.

**When click copy, it starts right out with the url -- which is not the most important thing to the genealogist

**21 coverage tables have been added to indexed collections. Have heard more comments about content of the table than the look of it. How generated: data that collection ops sent to Dorothy's team which they upload to the Wiki; Nathan did his manually. Gaps discovered. Feedback through FS or email HoranDM@FamilySearch.org

*Really likes the new link on the right that says '''Submit Wiki Content'''. Allows people to [[FamilySearch Wiki:Content Submission Form|type content in]], and someone will submit it.  

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