At 05:28 PM 4/29/2004,lorit wrote:
I believe that county reviews will create more conflicts than they are
worth. We have a state coordinator who oversees the project.
Again.....according to MAK, it takes her and Tina a long time to get
through all the counties, checking them, and then they have to start all
over again. To me, that seems like needless time and work, when a review
system can take care of it a whole lot more efficiently.
I believe that if a county coordinator is not giving proper attention
to a
site that it is the state coordinator's responsibility to address the
problem. If you find a broken link at my site, I hope you'll let me know
so I can fix it right away (and I hope other researchers would let me know
too).
I would hope that others tell me too, but they don't......not very often.
I think we have to remember that we are all volunteers. Some of you
have
more time on your hands than many of the rest of us who hold down
full-time jobs. I try to get new submissions up in a timely fashion, and
I try to add new stuff as I have time. However, I have had a gruelling
semester at work (not to mention 5 bomb scares and an attempted shoplifter
at our annual booksale just today). I'll have more time in the summer to
add new things than I've had this semester. Sometimes if you get a review
committee going, you aren't aware of issues !
I may not hold down a full time job, but I DO have visual problems! My
left eye is not seeing any better than 20/200! I'm not able to work on my
site for hours at a time either. I see predominately with my right eye,
and that is 20/40 at best. So, there are issues besides holding down a job.
like this, serious illness of immediate family, etc. where people
just
are having a few weeks or couple of months where it is all they can do to
keep up with new submissions and surname registry additions and
changes. The state coordinator is often aware of these even if the
others in the project are not. I am all for quality websites, but I
think we have to be sensitive and not get to a point where we might drive
volunteers away by trying to put too many demands on volunteers. Just my
2 cents worth.
We ALL have another life. We all have issues. Maybe not exactly like the
next person, but we do have them none-the-less. I have to have my
husband look at a graphic I've tweaked, to be sure that it isn't fuzzy and
not clear because of my visual problem.
I guess I would say that if taking care of a county is too much, then maybe
thought should be given to whether or not it is a worthwhile thing for you
as an individual.
The reviews aren't asking any more than the USGenWeb asks anyway. I don't
see where it's taking any more time.....unless you volunteer to do the
reviewing, and that isn't a necessity. If a site isn't following the
USGenWeb requirements, then regardless of whether a review is done, or the
SC is patrolling the sites....it needs to be fixed.
Mari
Lori Thornton
Ashland County
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