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Foreign language in banner
Just curious why there is a message in some foreign language (German?) in the header of the main page? —DeGraffJE talk 23:04, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
- Dutch, to tell Dutch speakers that if they log in they can have Dutch interface. Room for more languages there. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 05:28, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
- Is it necessary? It looks a bit tacky, favors one language, and is iterated on Wiki Familiegeschiedenis en Genealogie (.nl), which is linked on the main (English) page. —DeGraffJE talk 14:46, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
- Favoring one language need not disadvantage others. But I'm pleased the additional Dutch has been pruned - a single sentence is enough, and maybe more than enough if we have a clear link from that page to the Dutch version. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 15:45, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Intro mods
I significantly modified the introduction on this page, as it made no sense in English and was redundant to the Welcome section on the page. More formatting can be done so that it appears neatly in different browsers and on different screen sizes, but I feel that the current text is clear, concise, and compelling. —DeGraffJE talk 15:03, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
- Great new wording, thanks! — Robin Patterson (Talk) 15:47, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Multilingual welcome
I notice changes have been made to welcome users in multiple languages, etc. I feel that this is unnecessary since (1) this is the English main page, not the multilingual welcome page, and (2) users are probably smart enough to select their language if they arrive here. If we just more fully develop the distinct language main pages, users who search, for example, in Spanish, would be encounter the Spanish main page per Google search, not the English one. —DeGraffJE talk 12:15, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Multilingual is coming, but unfortunately we are English for 99%
Problem is that there is no multilangual welcome page. This is still an English site with English welcomepage. User:Phlox is nowadays transforming this site to a multilangual site and until that process has finished the English sites will function as multilingual sites. The english sites are not yet catogorized as Page in English because that was logical at an English site. Now the site becomes multilingual all english pages have to be catogorized with AWB. Unfortunately are users usually not smart and have big problems to work with this wiki. I promoted this wiki at the biggest dutch genealogy site, but even average dutch genealogists, educated in dutch, english, german and french, had the opinion that this site wasnot ready and user friendly enough to work with en to cooperate, apart from the fact that there is not yet a good gedcom system and the current view of admins and bureaucrats seems to be that they don't want big gedcom imports. It is a pity that there is no coordination and cooperation between the various wiki genealogysites. No one is ideal, butt all have parts which are the best, so if somebody could pick up the best parts of all, then the ideal genealogy site could be created! Until then there are many dutch genealogist waiting with more millions of ancestors. -- Fred Bergman 13:05, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
additional notice
The LDS church (Mormons) are actually developping a new system; I hope that that will be as good as it looks now, then there will be no future for the other wiki genealogysites I think-- Fred Bergman 13:12, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
Move the slideshow?
I wonder whether we could move the slideshow up, to sit at the left side of the welcome message balancing the links at the right. It's a while since I did anything with the slideshow; I remember it being tricky. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 01:25, January 17, 2010 (UTC)
- Done. Not very tricky. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:22, July 17, 2010 (UTC)
"Today in Familypedia people's history"
I'd like to see something like the above on the front page. Here's a template used on the South African Roux website that does it: http://roux.co.za/index.php?title=Template:Todayinhistory&action=edit - I'm sure we have someone here who can do a version for us. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:03, May 31, 2010 (UTC)
Pop-up ad on welcome page
There is a pop-up ad on the welcome page that will not go away. It covers some of the text on the right side. If this could be put into a frame it would be okay. SouthWriter 23:08, July 16, 2010 (UTC)
- Not something we volunteers have direct control of. There shouldn't be real popups anywhere. All that I see in that rectangle today is a smallish polite static ad from heritage.com or some such, not covering any content. If you see something covering text, I suggest you use the "Contact Wikia" link near the bottom of the page. Staff are pretty responsive. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 02:22, July 17, 2010 (UTC)