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| align="left" | I'll be honest, I feel like contributing to the wiki is boring. I have passion about genealogy but can't see how that translates to contributing to the wiki. | | align="left" | I'll be honest, I feel like contributing to the wiki is boring. I have passion about genealogy but can't see how that translates to contributing to the wiki. | ||
| align="left" | | | align="left" | <font color="green"> For some the passion goes beyond researching one’s own family. This passion could include the desire to help others achieve the same passion that you have. Contributing your knowledge to the wiki about how you found, organized, verified, and documented your family history is a worthy pursuit in and of itself. If you located information that is generally not public knowledge, this too could help others find their families or knock down someone else’s [[Solving_Tough_Research_Problems—Overcoming_Brick_Walls|brick wall]]. </font> | ||
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| align="left" | Wiki needs easily creatable formats for new pages. | | align="left" | Wiki needs easily creatable formats for new pages. | ||
| align="left" | | | align="left" | <font color="green"> Pre-formatted simple startup page (under consideration and is being evaluated) </font> | ||
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| align="left" | Why 'wiki-text' and not just the 'copy and paste' possibility? | | align="left" | Why 'wiki-text' and not just the 'copy and paste' possibility? | ||
| align="left" | | | align="left" | <font color="green"> Wikitext (plus some HTML) may be needed for more complex pages that include highly structured tables, precise positioning or grouping of page objects, and creating many of the templates used in the wiki. For the most part, a typical wiki page will not need sophisticated coding although some familiarity with the coding may be helpful in recognizing and understanding what you are seeing if you edit an existing page. The VisualEditor that is coming with the new version is a “what you see is what you get” type of user interface so that the complex coding stays behind the scenes, and always remember that [[Template:Find help|help]] is happily offered if you need it.</font> | ||
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