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*Professionals want to make money and not have their articles edited. If we publish we want credit for our work. | *Professionals want to make money and not have their articles edited. If we publish we want credit for our work. | ||
*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. | *The front page is very cluttered. | ||
*Need to be able to connect with someone that can help me. | |||
*Discussion pages need to be template and threaded and make it easier to add and respond topics for discussion. | |||
**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. | ||
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*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. | *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. | *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. | *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? | *What information can be added from where? What about copyright issues? | ||
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