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== Other products and websites == | == Other products and websites == | ||
There was a discussion in the community meeting on 10/4/2011 where we talked about what kind of information should be included in the wiki relating to other products and websites outside of FamilySearch stemming from [https://www.familysearch.org/learn/forums/en/showthread.php?t=9625 this forum thread]. This document doesn't give any guidelines in that area. It was discussed that the general rule of thumb has seemed to be that it's ok for those things to be in the wiki but there was a division on whether people felt we should get into help materials, teaching people how to use the websites or software programs. Nothing was settled, but contributors seem to be handling the topic well on pages that are being created with this in mind - give some basic information to show how it's helpful but not needing to get too involved. -- [[User:VasquezJL|janellv]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:VasquezJL|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/VasquezJL|contribs]]}} 21:24, 4 October 2011 (UTC) | There was a discussion in the community meeting on 10/4/2011 where we talked about what kind of information should be included in the wiki relating to other products and websites outside of FamilySearch stemming from [https://www.familysearch.org/learn/forums/en/showthread.php?t=9625 this forum thread]. This document doesn't give any guidelines in that area. It was discussed that the general rule of thumb has seemed to be that it's ok for those things to be in the wiki but there was a division on whether people felt we should get into help materials, teaching people how to use the websites or software programs. Nothing was settled, but contributors seem to be handling the topic well on pages that are being created with this in mind - give some basic information to show how it's helpful but not needing to get too involved. -- [[User:VasquezJL|janellv]] {{toolbar|[[User talk:VasquezJL|talk]]|[[Special:Contributions/VasquezJL|contribs]]}} 21:24, 4 October 2011 (UTC) | ||
:To me, how to use other websites/products belong with those websites. FamilySearch is not a support for those products. That is the responsibility of the producers of the products and therefore recommend directing those kinds to the producers. I really do not think FamilySearch (including the Research Wiki) should get into product support for other products, just stay with its own products and how to do research (again, not how to use other products to do research). [[User:Thomas_Lerman|Thomas_Lerman]] 16:08, 5 October 2011 (UTC) | |||