MRP: Testing the wiki
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Testing the wiki
Editorial history
16/12/11, CSG: Created page
Contents
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?
- 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 have you found useful in this wiki?
- What finding tools would you like to see?
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
- Do the Chancery transcriptions stand by themselves, or would they benefit from greater annotation and contextual notes?
- Currently the transcriptions vary considerably in the degree to which annotations and contextual notes have been provided
Inventories
- How would you like to see inventories displayed?
See Inventories
Letters
- Is the format used to display individual letters a helpful one?
- Are short or more discursive footnotes appropriate and useful in a wiki format?
See Correspondence of Sir George Oxenden, 1663-1669 (British Library, Add. MSS. 40708-40713)
See Letters
Wills
- Are contextual notes useful?
- Is there any point in a light abstract of a will?
See 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:
- Places
- People
