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==Testing the wiki==
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'''Testing the wiki'''
  
 
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===Look & feel===
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<u>Front page</u>
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==Look & feel==
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===Front page===
  
 
* Is it clear who the wiki is for?
 
* Is it clear who the wiki is for?
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* Is it clear what the wiki is about?
 
* Is it clear what the wiki is about?
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* Are you encouraged to explore further?
 
  
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<u>Templates</u>
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* Are you encouraged to explore further?
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===Font size===
  
 
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* Are headers and subheaders the right size?
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* Is body text at standard browser and screen resolution you use the right size?
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* Is body text the right size at the standard browser and screen resolution you use?
 
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===Functionality===
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===Images===
  
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<u>Search</u>
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* Are images sized appropriately?
  
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* For search across the full contents of the wiki, try the wiki search box at the top right hand corner of the open window.  You may want to open another window for searches, as a separate window, or as a separate tab, so that you can retain the content of the existing window
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* Do you prefer fixed size images embedded within the text, or images viewable in popup windows in which the images can be resized?
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* For search within an open wiki page, use your browser's "Find" function
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<u>Navigation</u>
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==Functionality==
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===Search===
  
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* Hyperlinked navigation
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* What has been your experience of the search functionality in this wiki?
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- hyperlinks within page text
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- hyperlinks within footnotes
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* Alphabets
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* What search functionality would you like to see?
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- alphabets are provided for the names of letter writers, for names mentioned within the body of letters, for places where the letter writers were located (if specified in the letter), and for places mentioned within the body of letters
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- these alphabets are not hyperlinked.  However, if you enter the name or place in the top right hand wiki search box, with the spelling as given in the alphabet, enclosed by speech marks, you will get a list of primary and secondary documents in which that person or place is mentioned
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<u>Editing</u>
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* Is it clear how to get where you want to get?
  
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<u>Use of Templates</u>
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* Is browsing encouraged as well as focused research?
  
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* Is it clear what navigation are available and how to use them?
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===Finding tools===
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* What finding tools would you like to see?
  
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* What finding tools have you found useful in this wiki?
 
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===Content===
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===Editing===
  
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<u>Legal</u>
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* Is it clear how to edit a page?
  
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[[MRP: Chancery Cases| Chancery records]]
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* Have you experience of editing a wiki or a website?
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[[MRP: Admiralty court cases| High Court of Admiralty records]]
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===Use of Templates===
  
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<u>Inventories</u>
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* What templates would you like to see available to help you contribute to the wiki?
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==Primary source content==
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===Legal===
  
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Accessing Chancery records] on the wiki is possible in multiple ways:
  
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<u>Wills</u>
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* Use [[MRP: Chancery Cases|Chancery Cases]] to access annotated full text transcriptions of cases related to the Oxenden family, together with contextual notes and supplementary resources
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* Use [[MRP: Possible new primary sources|Possible new primary sources]] to identify possible, probable and definite Chancery cases involving the ca. forty merchant subscribers to the [[MRP: Smirna Venture Joint Stock subscriber list | Smirna Venture Joint Stock]] and to the [[MRP: King Fernandez subscriber list| King Fernandez Joint Stock]]
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* Use the Wiki's top right hand search box together with a specified National Archives Chancery Case catalogue code to find specific transcriptions and/or other primary and secondary documents which have been cross-referenced to this catalogue code
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[[MRP: Admiralty court cases| High Court of Admiralty records]]
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===Inventories===
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===Letters===
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===Wills===
  
 
Accessing [[MRP: wills|wills]]
 
Accessing [[MRP: wills|wills]]
  
 
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===Providing your feedback===
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==Secondary material content==
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* What type of secondary material would you like to see on the wiki?
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To date the focus of this wiki has been to prepare, post, annotate and cross-link new primary documents.
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There has been some limited experimentation with new wiki articles, which synthesise new primary research and which provide finding aids to unused or lightly used primary sources
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Sample articles can be found in the wiki, especially for:
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- Buildings and places
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- People
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==Providing your feedback==
  
 
[[Comments]]
 
[[Comments]]

Revision as of 18:34, January 2, 2012

Testing the wiki

Editorial history

16/12/11, CSG: Created page




Look & feel

Front page


  • Is it clear who the wiki is for?


  • Is it clear what the wiki is about?


  • Are you encouraged to explore further?

Font size


  • Are headers and subheaders the right size?


  • Is body text the right size at the standard browser and screen resolution you use?

Images


  • Are images sized appropriately?


  • Do you prefer fixed size images embedded within the text, or images viewable in popup windows in which the images can be resized?



Functionality

Search


  • What has been your experience of the search functionality in this wiki?


  • What search functionality would you like to see?

Navigation


  • Is it clear how to get where you want to get?


  • Is browsing encouraged as well as focused research?


  • Is it clear what navigation are available and how to use them?

Finding tools


  • What finding tools would you like to see?


  • What finding tools have you found useful in this wiki?

Editing


  • Is it clear how to edit a page?


  • Have you experience of editing a wiki or a website?

Use of Templates


  • What templates would you like to see available to help you contribute to the wiki?

Primary source content

Legal


Accessing Chancery records] on the wiki is possible in multiple ways:

  • Use Chancery Cases to access annotated full text transcriptions of cases related to the Oxenden family, together with contextual notes and supplementary resources



  • Use the Wiki's top right hand search box together with a specified National Archives Chancery Case catalogue code to find specific transcriptions and/or other primary and secondary documents which have been cross-referenced to this catalogue code


High Court of Admiralty records


Inventories


[Insert new paragraph]


Letters


Wills


Accessing wills


Secondary material content


  • What type of secondary material would you like to see on the wiki?


To date the focus of this wiki has been to prepare, post, annotate and cross-link new primary documents.

There has been some limited experimentation with new wiki articles, which synthesise new primary research and which provide finding aids to unused or lightly used primary sources

Sample articles can be found in the wiki, especially for:

- Buildings and places

- People

Providing your feedback


Comments

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