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== Call For Feedback! == | == Call For Feedback! == | ||
We need your feedback! Our goal is to make wiki.familysearch.org a friendly, welcoming place that is easy for you to use and make contributions. Please leave your comments regarding the ease of use and/or contributing to the wiki. What is your experience? What challenges do you face in doing what you want to do? Where do you find help? This is the page for making comments on the problems. <br> | We need your feedback! Our goal is to make wiki.familysearch.org a friendly, welcoming place that is easy for you to use and make contributions. Please leave your comments regarding the ease of use and/or contributing to the wiki. What is your experience? What challenges do you face in doing what you want to do? Where do you find help? This is the page for making comments on the problems. <br> | ||
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. | ||
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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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*The Community Portal is too cluttered. Is it even being monitored? | *The Community Portal is too cluttered. Is it even being monitored? | ||
*The front page is very cluttered. | *The front page is very cluttered - need specific places to go. | ||
*The colors are bland. | *The colors are bland. | ||
*LDSphilanthropies.org has more color. It is a church website. | *LDSphilanthropies.org has more color. It is a church website. | ||
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*The site is too crowded and disorganized. I have to scroll to find the navigation. Home should be on top. | *The site is too crowded and disorganized. I have to scroll to find the navigation. Home should be on top. | ||
*The wiki has incomplete and cryptic information and unsure lead-in to it. Needs to open with 10-15 research categories to stimulate and direct the user. | *The wiki has incomplete and cryptic information and unsure lead-in to it. Needs to open with 10-15 research categories to stimulate and direct the user. | ||
*Need clear meaningful categories of real interest up front. Step-by-step, simple and attractive. Don't bury links in sentences or paragraphs. The countries are good, especialy USA but general and incomplete. The map to the States is great! | *Need clear meaningful categories of real interest up front. Step-by-step, simple and attractive. '''Don't bury links in sentences or paragraphs.''' | ||
*Wiki needs to start out with a better opening. | *The countries are good, especialy USA but general and incomplete. The map to the States is great! | ||
*Wiki needs to start out with a better opening. What should I do once I get there? Once in a country or category it gets better. | |||
*When I first tried to explore the site I got lost or was refused entry. | *When I first tried to explore the site I got lost or was refused entry. | ||
*I had a hard time finding "Home". Most sites have it on top center or left to easily get back to the home page. | *I had a hard time finding "Home". Most sites have it on top center or left to easily get back to the home page. | ||
*It's hard to figure out if something is already there. | *It's hard to figure out if something is already there. | ||
*Where does a particular piece of information go. It is hard to figure out. | *Where does a particular piece of information go. It is hard to figure out. | ||
*Where is the 'creative' team? A real '''Home Page''' is needed to attract people to this web-site. Put buttons on there that help people navigate or find instructions on how to input their own information. In English please and not computerese! Also a 'contact' button where people can | *Where is the 'creative' team? A real '''Home Page''' is needed to attract people to this web-site. '''Put buttons on there that help people navigate or find instructions on how to input their own information. '''In English please and not computerese! Also a 'contact' button where people can send e-mails and have them answered! | ||
*For every country have a file where people can put copies of pictures in (plus the link where it was taken from), so that when they want to add a picture they can go to that file and copy and paste it instead of having to follow so many steps to add a picture - that will also assure that people can check on the copyright of that picture. | *For every country have a file where people can put copies of pictures in (plus the link where it was taken from), so that when they want to add a picture they can go to that file and copy and paste it instead of having to follow so many steps to add a picture - that will also assure that people can check on the copyright of that picture. | ||
*When you minimize your screen on your monitor, the navigation on the right side of the page (or anything that is on that side) should not disappear to the bottom of the screen where people can't find it. | *When you minimize your screen on your monitor, the navigation on the right side of the page (or anything that is on that side) should not disappear to the bottom of the screen where people can't find it. | ||
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*The wiki is hard to use because it is hard to figure out the best way to search. Perhaps add a few tips on how to search. | *The wiki is hard to use because it is hard to figure out the best way to search. Perhaps add a few tips on how to search. | ||
*Have to hunt for things. Can't find what I'm looking for. | *Have to hunt for things. They are buried. Can't find what I'm looking for. | ||
*Hard to find "how to topics" | *Hard to find "how to topics" | ||
*It's too hard to figure out what to put in the search box without suggestions. | *It's too hard to figure out what to put in the search box without suggestions. | ||