FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Feedback/What New Users and Contributors Want to Make Wiki Easier

Call for feedback!
Please leave your feedback regarding the ease of use and/or contributing to the wiki. Our goal is to make wiki.familysearch.org a friendly, welcoming place that is easy for you to use and make contributions. What are your ideas for making the wiki easier to use? Where would you like to find help? This is the page for your ideas for answers.

To express the problems you see, please go to Challenges Facing New Users. To add your "Vote" for those solutions you feel are most urgent and important, go to Newbies Priorities. Experienced users' feedback on your early, user experiences are also needed. This page is not placed on forums.familysearch.org to simplify access for newbies.

Feel free to sign your comments or leave them annonymous. Kara aka CK Whipple 23:22, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Feedback:

 * I think a general message should be sent to all of the Family History Centers throughout the world inviting them to use and add to WIKI.
 * Navigation should be moved to the left side. On many computers you have to scroll to the right to find it people I have helped didn't know where it was until I told them to scroll over.
 * Why is navigation on the right? People read from left to right. Wikipedia and FamilySearch both have left navigation.
 * In reading the challenges page it sounds like a series of videos on editing the wiki would prove useful. Wikis do allow a lot more collaboration, but editing may never be as easy or intuitive as word processors. Laralee 14:49, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know what resources are available, but if there are or could be resources (trained missionaries) to allow quick email and/or chat responses to questions so there is near real-time feedback that would help a lot of folks. Set up some categories so it can route to appropriate folks (contributing to the wiki (editing & what's appropriate to contribute), research guidance, how to find what I'm looking for Laralee 14:49, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * FAQ pages on editing, setting preferences, etc. There could be a FAQ category to pull all the FAQs together for a super-FAQ. Laralee 14:49, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Promote the sandbox as a way to learn to edit and contribute without impacting the wiki. Laralee 14:49, 7 November 2009 (UTC)