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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. | ||
Please feel free to sign your comments or leave them annonymous. Thanks! Kara aka [[User:CK Whipple|CK Whipple]] 17:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC) | Please feel free to sign your comments or leave them annonymous. Thanks! Kara aka [[User:CK Whipple|CK Whipple]] 17:40, 5 November 2009 (UTC) | ||
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*People are intimidated by it. | *People are intimidated by it. | ||
*It the wiki mature enough to be valuable to people? Why would I, as a genealogist, care the wiki is there? The colors are bland. | *It the wiki mature enough to be valuable to people? Why would I, as a genealogist, care the wiki is there? The colors are bland. | ||
*LDSphilanthropies.org has more color. It is a church website. | *LDSphilanthropies.org has more color. It is a church website. | ||
*Creating columns is sooo hard. I try to avoid them. | *Creating columns is sooo hard. I try to avoid them. | ||
*There needs to be a place for people who don't know how to do it. | *There needs to be a place for people who don't know how to do it. | ||
*What value is the wiki? It doesn't seem organized. The home page needs to be simplified, attractive and clear. | *What value is the wiki? It doesn't seem organized. The home page needs to be simplified, attractive and clear. | ||
*Genealogy tool like soundex, dictionaries, word lists, census forms, perpetual calendar, age calculator, relationship calculator, and calendar converters or a tool for autocitations would be useful. Put all of this under tools. Need space and images more and less lists. (prof) | *Genealogy tool like soundex, dictionaries, word lists, census forms, perpetual calendar, age calculator, relationship calculator, and calendar converters or a tool for autocitations would be useful. Put all of this under tools. Need space and images more and less lists. (prof) | ||
*Home is hard to find. | *Home is hard to find. | ||
*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. | ||
*Requests for fixes are not responded to. There is serious lack of communication. | *Requests for fixes are not responded to. There is serious lack of communication. | ||
*You need a place on wiki for feedback. | *You need a place on wiki for feedback. | ||
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*If I want to contribute but it is too hard, could I email the information to someone and they could enter it for me? | *If I want to contribute but it is too hard, could I email the information to someone and they could enter it for me? | ||
*As far as foreign language research goes, other websits are more thorough like genealogy.net. Most serious contributors are outside of the USA and are not capable to contribute in English. Societies or individuals who want to contribute something usually have their own sites or contibute through societies. | *As far as foreign language research goes, other websits are more thorough like genealogy.net. Most serious contributors are outside of the USA and are not capable to contribute in English. Societies or individuals who want to contribute something usually have their own sites or contibute through societies. | ||
*To introduce a new person to this wiki, if you are familiar with computers, this is still a problem. It takes a long time to learn how to do this program. Originally it was a little easier with the portal pages. Now, as I introduce others to this program, they still have difficulty finding what they want. A specific research problem, or area both involved. | *To introduce a new person to this wiki, if you are familiar with computers, this is still a problem. It takes a long time to learn how to do this program. Originally it was a little easier with the portal pages. Now, as I introduce others to this program, they still have difficulty finding what they want. A specific research problem, or area both involved. | ||
*It's hard to figure out if something is already there. | |||
*Adding to the wiki - some of it is straight forward and some of it is hard to figure out. | |||
*Where does a particular piece of information go? It is hard to figure out. | |||
*What information can be added from where? What about copyright issues? | |||
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