Familypedia:Info pages/instructions

The instructions below are for entering a "new" individual with both an info page and an ordinary page. (To add an info page to an existing article that does not have one, see /add info page to existing article.)

Info page
Paste or type the name of the proposed article before the /info. (There should be no space between the end of the article name and the /info, and there must be no other "slash" (/) in the name.) That creates a pre-formatted info page for that article ready to add data to. Once you get to the page, you will see many things such as "surname =", "birth year =", "spouse =", "child1 =". To the right of each "=" sign, fill in the information (without adding "Enter"). If no information, add nothing (and do not delete the line). You can add more later. If there is already an info page for the spouse, you should copy the spouse's exact page name and you may copy all of the spouse's "child" lines to replace the pre-formatted blanks.

Previewing will not be much use until the page has been saved and reopened. Just save the page, copy its exact title (except for the "/info"), then return here for the next inputbox.

Article
Then, put the title in the box below and click its button. That creates an infobox-style article that uses the data on the info page (which is technically a "subpage" of the article).

Now you have a page to store a person's basic information (/info) and their actual article. The article displays information by using intricate templates (explained below) that you need not be concerned about.

Copies of the page templates used

 * Info page templates
 * English Genealogy:Info pages/template


 * Article templates
 * English Genealogy:Info pages/person article template
 * French Genealogy:Info pages/person article template (fr)

What the main subtemplates do
The Showinfo person template at the top of the article automatically takes much of the information you entered in the info page and puts it into a box at the top right corner of the article.

The Showinfo children template under the "Children" heading takes "Child..." information from the "/info" page you created and lists the person's children in a table headed with the parents' names. As soon as the children have their own "/info" pages, any information there on birth and death will also be put in this table on each parent's article. (For two or more spouses, there's a little more work, noted in a comment on the page.) Such child info updates automatically each time you open the parent's article.

What you can add
You can also add biographical information to the person's article, under the line and the preset standard headings. This could include not only the person's vital statistics, but what they did such as their immigration journey, war stories, daily life, external links, etc. Insert your own headings for longer biographies. You can add categories, but standard "BMD" and surname categories are generated automatically from the info page data.

Details of main subtemplates
You will see various templates in the edit box of the person's article page. These generate information from the info page.

Manual use of the forms
You may produce the same result without using the above infoboxes.
 * 1) Create a blank /info subpage to an existing article on a person, and paste the following text into it:

Tutorial
See the general tutorial and a detailed tutorial dealing with each parameter.