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 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 Possible new primary sources to identify possible, probable and definite Chancery cases involving the ca. forty merchant subscribers to the Smirna Venture Joint Stock and to the King Fernandez Joint Stock
- 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
