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From what I have seen at the FHL, many researchers open new windows all the times and use them all the times on daily basis, they are more saavy nowadays than before and they do know what they are doing. Constantly switching from their favorite family programs (be it PAF, AQ, Legacy, RootsMagic) to Ancestry, WVR, etc is what I am seeing so there should not be any issues about opening into new windows being an issue. [[User:Dsammy|dsammy]] 16:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC) | From what I have seen at the FHL, many researchers open new windows all the times and use them all the times on daily basis, they are more saavy nowadays than before and they do know what they are doing. Constantly switching from their favorite family programs (be it PAF, AQ, Legacy, RootsMagic) to Ancestry, WVR, etc is what I am seeing so there should not be any issues about opening into new windows being an issue. [[User:Dsammy|dsammy]] 16:42, 8 October 2009 (UTC) | ||
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I like the idea of an interwiki link behaving and looking the same as an external link. I don't like external links that have no icon beside them to indicate that they're going outside. I also think it's time we considered having external links open in the same window rather than spawning a new one. It's like Thomas said, though -- it might be wise to test our user base, which truly is an older, less tech-savvy crowd than the Internet technorati (all of us included in that last). Whatever you guys want to do, though, you might want to involve [[User:JensenFA|Fran Jensen]] in the conversation because she has been assigned as the wiki lead. If users want a change in functionality, the path is users --> Fran --> Ben Bennett --> engineers. [[User:RitcheyMT|Ritcheymt]] 19:18, 20 November 2009 (UTC) | |||
:I would add that when more people get involved in the [http://forums.familysearch.org/en/forumdisplay.php?f=5 Forums] by posting requests for enhancements and changes, the more your thoughts and ideas will be heard. Right now, the Forums have a much wider audience than specific pages in the wiki. If Ben or any of our engineers are not "watching" a page, they typically won't know it's been updated with requests for enhancements, etc. --[[User:JensenFA|Fran]] 21:15, 28 January 2010 (UTC) | :I would add that when more people get involved in the [http://forums.familysearch.org/en/forumdisplay.php?f=5 Forums] by posting requests for enhancements and changes, the more your thoughts and ideas will be heard. Right now, the Forums have a much wider audience than specific pages in the wiki. If Ben or any of our engineers are not "watching" a page, they typically won't know it's been updated with requests for enhancements, etc. --[[User:JensenFA|Fran]] 21:15, 28 January 2010 (UTC) | ||
::Sorry, I am not sure that I am following what you are asking here Fran or more specifically what it has to do with the discussion above. Is this related to the discussion on the interwiki link should be acting like an external link? Actually, I think I may have just figured it out . . . it is related to the last two above sentences concerning getting you involved and the line of command. The forums is a great place to get that information passed around. Putting something on a discussion page does not necessarily get the information to the right people. However, the forums COULD point to a discussion page. Did I figure it out correctly? [[User:Thomas_Lerman|Thomas_Lerman]] 21:47, 28 January 2010 (UTC) | |||