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In Help Wiki Basics under Getting Started, an option for Find an Ancestor is given. However, on the right side bar, there is no Find an Ancestor option. Frustrated![[User:MamaDee9|MamaDee9]] 18:14, 13 May 2015 (UTC) | In Help Wiki Basics under Getting Started, an option for Find an Ancestor is given. However, on the right side bar, there is no Find an Ancestor option. Frustrated![[User:MamaDee9|MamaDee9]] 18:14, 13 May 2015 (UTC) | ||
:We apologize for the frustration. The right side bar was changed, but the information on the Help:Wiki Basics page was not updated. The find an ancestor information can be found by clicking on "About the Wiki" option on the right side bar. The Help:Wiki Basics page has been updated. [[User:Parrisl|Parrisl]] 06:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC) | :We apologize for the frustration. The right side bar was changed, but the information on the Help:Wiki Basics page was not updated. The find an ancestor information can be found by clicking on "About the Wiki" option on the right side bar. The Help:Wiki Basics page has been updated. [[User:Parrisl|Parrisl]] 06:03, 14 May 2015 (UTC) | ||
== FamilySearch Wiki is NOT user friendly == | |||
To: Whom it May Concern | |||
From: Elder Glen A. Dolberg, Full-time missionary in FCHHM | |||
The FamilySearch Wiki openly calls itself a type of encyclopedia, and we all know that encyclopedias are whales in the oceans of knowledge and in the seas of information. | |||
From a designer’s view, the FamilySearch Wiki is a marvelous, magnificent creation – literally a whale of enormous magnitude! | |||
From a user’s view, the FamilySearch Wiki is a mammoth, mountain-sized creature – literally a monster of unequaled monstrosity! | |||
Every page is overloaded with long lists and lumbering lumps of links which overwhelm and mystify. In the effort to include everything, to cross reference everything, and to accommodate everything including everyone’s ideas via wikis the monster grows ever bigger and harder to harness. | |||
Unless the user is determined to harpoon this leviathan in order to extract some desired information, one or two looks at the enormity of this beast quickly discourage any further use. Just reading the multiplicity of notes, directions, and tips can take up hours of research time. Ready access to any information becomes more rare by the minute. | |||
Suggestion: think SIMPLE – think USER-FRIENDLY | |||