Familypedia:Collaboration of the month

We have nominated this site for Collaboration of the month on the Central Wikia. This is an outline of what we believe experienced Wikians may be able to do to help this site become easier to use and therefore more popular:

Our nomination paragraphs
Everyone has had ancestors and most people like discovering relatives. Join us for a while and add or maybe find a couple of yours! Family historians are good with genealogy software, but wikis are a whole new world for some and we would like tips from experienced Wikians for things such as templates and references. There are other good genealogy wikis; help Wikia to keep this one flourishing! (I will be active most days until at least 21 December; after that try Bill Willis). Robin Patterson 19:21, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

What we really need help with is with features needed to improve the functionality of the Genealogy Wiki. There are several features that are critically needed, but require expertise with the development of extensions to the underlying program. Of particular importance is developing a simpified system for entering basic data about an individual. Individual articles vary in organization, but all "person" articles include certain basic data such as Date of Birth, Date of Death, Spouse, Children, etc. Because of the nature of genealogy the same data often has to be entered on several different articles. For example, a typical article includes a list of children (a child list). That list usually includes basic information about the child, such as their date of birth, spouse, etc. Eventually each child on the list may get a separate article as well. That article will include the same information as given in each parent's "child" list. Currently, that information has to be manually duplicated; what's needed is a system that automatically creates the child page, and then transfers the needed information from the parental page. And ideally a similar system to create parent pages from an individual's page. Those can probably be done with text boxes, etc., but currently that doesn't seem to be a capability of the wiki programming. An extension is needed to add that capability.Bill 02:50, 29 November 2006 (UTC)