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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) | I began the comments with those I have laready gathered on paper. 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) | ||
== Feedback: == | == Feedback: == | ||
*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. | ||
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*Discussion pages need to be template and threaded and make it easier to add and respond topics for discussion. | *Discussion pages need to be template and threaded and make it easier to add and respond topics for discussion. | ||
*Is the wiki mature enough to be valuable to people? Why would I, as a genealogist, care the wiki is there? The colors are bland. | *Is 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 wiki is not very friendly - how do you connect with other contributors or see if someone else is working on what you want to do? | *The wiki is not very friendly - how do you connect with other contributors or see if someone else is working on what you want to do? | ||
*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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*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? | ||
*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 sent e-mails and have them answered! | *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 sent 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. | ||
*'''Columns - an absolute nightmare!!!''' | *'''Columns - an absolute nightmare!!!''' | ||
*Why 'wiki-text' and not just the 'copy and paste' possibility? | *Why 'wiki-text' and not just the 'copy and paste' possibility? | ||
*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. | ||
*Sorry, I just find it a pain to work with and postpone it as long as I can!!! | *Sorry, I just find it a pain to work with and postpone it as long as I can!!! | ||