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  To post comments for the answers you recommend, please go to [[What New Users and Contributors Want to Make Wiki Easier|What New Users and Contributors Want to Make Wiki Easier]]. Then, please add your "Vote" for what you feel is most urgent and important at [[Newbies Priorities|Newbies Priorities]]. Experienced user/contributor feedback on early, new user experiences is also needed. This page is not placed on [http://forums.familysearch.org/en/ forums.familysearch.org] to simplify access for newbies.  
  To post comments for the answers you recommend, please go to [[What New Users and Contributors Want to Make Wiki Easier|What New Users and Contributors Want to Make Wiki Easier]]. Then, please add your "Vote" for what you feel is most urgent and important at [[Newbies Priorities|Newbies Priorities]]. Experienced user/contributor feedback on early, new user experiences is also needed. This page is not placed on [http://forums.familysearch.org/en/ forums.familysearch.org] to simplify access for newbies.  


Written and verbal feedback already received has been posted below. Please feel free to sign your comments or leave them anonymous. Thanks! Kara aka [[User:Ckwahlquist|CK Whipple]] 17:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)  
 
Written and verbal feedback already received has been posted below. Please feel free to sign your comments or leave them anonymous. Thanks! Kara aka [[User:Ckwahlquist|CK Whipple]] 17:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC)  


   
   
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'''''[[FamilySearch_Wiki_talk:WikiProject_Feedback|talk page]]''''' as well as any other comments if you prefer not to edit the article itself.
'''''[[FamilySearch_Wiki_talk:WikiProject_Feedback|talk page]]''''' as well as any other comments if you prefer not to edit the article itself.
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*You really need to dumb it down.&nbsp; It is like computer geeks don't know how to talk to everyday people.
*People are intimidated by it.
*Too complicated and circurtous.
*Sorry, I just find it a pain to work with and postpone it as long as I can!!!
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==== Sign in  ====
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*Why do we need forums separate from the wiki? And a separate sign-in?  
*Why do we need forums separate from the wiki? And a separate sign-in?  
*Don't like having to sign in again to link to the forum.
*Don't like having to sign in again to link to the forum.
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*The wiki needs a "Here's what you will love" opening matrix, if possible.  
*The wiki needs a "Here's what you will love" opening matrix, if possible.  
*The site needs color.
*The site needs color.
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*Great application!!! Fun to use. Keep text on the left instead of RHS. Better to scroll to navigation rather than for every line of text. It's time to nail down the place naming policy. Glitz and colour are unimportant.
*Great application!!! Fun to use. Keep text on the left instead of RHS. Better to scroll to navigation rather than for every line of text. It's time to nail down the place naming policy. Glitz and colour are unimportant.


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==== Contributing  ====
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*Wiki needs easily creatable formats for new pages.  
*Wiki needs easily creatable formats for new pages.  
*Why 'wiki-text' and not just the 'copy and paste' possibility?
*Why 'wiki-text' and not just the 'copy and paste' possibility?
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*Adding to the wiki - some of it is straight forward and some of it is hard to figure out.  
*Adding to the wiki - some of it is straight forward and some of it is hard to figure out.  
*'''Columns - an absolute nightmare!!!'''
*'''Columns - an absolute nightmare!!!'''
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*It would be nice if there was a central "bank" from which we could copy and paste references when we edit. Many are used frequently and the only format that I've found is within "footnotes"--which doesn't work.
*It would be nice if there was a central "bank" from which we could copy and paste references when we edit. Many are used frequently and the only format that I've found is within "footnotes"--which doesn't work.
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*If I want to contribute but it is too hard, could I email the information to someone and they could enter it for me?  
*If I want to contribute but it is too hard, could I email the information to someone and they could enter it for me?  
*To introduce a new person to this wiki, if you are familiar with computers, this is still a problem. It takes a long time to learn how to do this program. Originally it was a little easier with the portal pages. Now, as I introduce others to this program, they still have difficulty finding what they want. A specific research problem, or area both involved.
*To introduce a new person to this wiki, if you are familiar with computers, this is still a problem. It takes a long time to learn how to do this program. Originally it was a little easier with the portal pages. Now, as I introduce others to this program, they still have difficulty finding what they want. A specific research problem, or area both involved.
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*Genealogy tool like soundex, dictionaries, word lists, census forms perpetual calendar, age calculator, relationship calculator, and calendar converters or a tool for autocitations&nbsp;would be useful. Put all of this under tools. Need space and images more and less lists.(prof)  
*Genealogy tool like soundex, dictionaries, word lists, census forms perpetual calendar, age calculator, relationship calculator, and calendar converters or a tool for autocitations&nbsp;would be useful. Put all of this under tools. Need space and images more and less lists.(prof)  
*As far as foreign language research goes, other websits are more thorough like genealogy.net. Most serious contributors are outside of the USA&nbsp;and are not capable to contribute in English. Societies or individuals who want to contribute something usually have their own sites or contibute through societies.
*As far as foreign language research goes, other websits are more thorough like genealogy.net. Most serious contributors are outside of the USA&nbsp;and are not capable to contribute in English. Societies or individuals who want to contribute something usually have their own sites or contibute through societies.
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*You really need to dumb it down.&nbsp; It is like computer geeks don't know how to talk to everyday people.
*People are intimidated by it.
*Too complicated and circurtous.
*Sorry, I just find it a pain to work with and postpone it as long as I can!!!
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