Familypedia:Watercooler

Creating entries
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New Namespace for Names
I am thinking we should set up a separate Namespace for names and have individual names for them. That way, we can have categories for family names, given names, Muslim names, Persian names, male names, female names, and so on. &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 20:10, 3 Mar 2005 (GMT)
 * That sounds interesting. But please explain a bit more. How would they relate to other categories? Couldn't they just be articles, maybe with lists linking to specific names? (That would make it more likely that people would find them in a search.) Robin Patterson 06:18, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Having done some thinking since, I agree with you. I like the way, say, Khan looks now. &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 02:57, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Mailing List
The mailing list for this Wiki is Genealogy-l and is at: http://www.wikicities.com/mailman/listinfo/genealogy-l &mdash;iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 19:19, 7 Mar 2005 (GMT)

Babel templates, showing languages understood by contributors
Two of us now have coloured boxes at top right on our User pages indicating which languages we have any working knowledge of. I recently fiddled with the formatting so that the header was better balanced and the little boxes fitted properly inside the big one (on my screen anyway). An anonymous contributor has now very kindly fixed up the code a bit more. There's no universal foolproof coding yet, so any further improvements may be most welcome.

See Genealogy:Babel templates and its discussion page.

Robin Patterson 01:38, 27 Jul 2005 (UTC)

(the above was shortened in August after being copied to Genealogy_talk:Babel_templates)

List of contributors
Because of the wikicities structure, there seems to be no easy way to list those who contribute to this wikicity. Or have I missed something? Unless there's a better place, how about Genealogy:Contributors? Robin Patterson 23:34, 31 Jul 2005 (UTC)

Administrators
Currently only one active genealogist is an administrator here. Anyone who would like to be given the extra facility that goes with being a sysop or bureaucrat may edit Genealogy:Requests for adminship.

Dealing with spam
Most of our responsible contributors look at the list of Recent Changes. Spam is removed when seen. And, as noted in a recent message from Angela, it should then be reported at http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Talk:Spam_Blacklist. Robin Patterson 00:33, 10 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Submission to Cyndi's List
I've applied to have this site listed with the other quarter million! See http://www.cyndislist.com/thanks-n.htm. Robin Patterson
 * Great idea, Robin. I hope it gets listed. Let us know if it does. Jtc 12:42, 17 Aug 2005 (UTC)