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We have hundreds of people in common with Wikipedia, and there is no intrinsic reason why we should not have an article for every individual who has a WP article. They could be copied by bot, as the county pages were copied. But that needs someone proficient with bots, not only for the copying but also to run the "wpxfer" that [[User:Phlox]] was using to convert all links to {{T|wp}}. |
We have hundreds of people in common with Wikipedia, and there is no intrinsic reason why we should not have an article for every individual who has a WP article. They could be copied by bot, as the county pages were copied. But that needs someone proficient with bots, not only for the copying but also to run the "wpxfer" that [[User:Phlox]] was using to convert all links to {{T|wp}}. |
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Revision as of 11:27, 26 April 2009
This is a page where developers and anyone else can write a couple of lines about things that are or should be in progress (with links to relevant pages), so that others can see what's going on and:
- avoid the duplication that comes from ignorance of something's existence
- join in if interested
- continue if original promoter has very long absence
GEDCOM upload
Brian Yap (User:Yewenyi) devised a java program that he used to create most of the first 3,000 articles on this wiki (four or five per minute when in full flight). Other people have looked at it. User:Phlox believes that anything doing that job should be based on the Py... whateveritis bot system. Progress is desirable. One hurdle is to decide on the format of our individuals' page names, still under discussion on User talk:Phlox in early December 2007.
Active work in April 2009: Forum:Gedcom bot and Rtol's improvements to Yewenyi's process
Page names
See above. Summary of progress: we want page names that Google will rank reasonably highly so that millions of people find us when looking up relatives. The insertion of middle names goes against that. The addition of birth dates and anything else after the surname may also lower the ranking a little (and causes trouble if it is used for /info pages then changed). A solution may be in two parts: starting with a Google-friendly page that we call a disambiguation page but has more on it than purely links to detailed pages with minimal distinction (per Wikipedia style); see Barack Obama for an example. Not unlike the two-to-three-line boxes you get with hits when searching Rootsweb: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?surname=Obama&given=barack. Each detailed page could then include middle names, and for further distinction could add a birth date as we do now or could add just a decade (thus doing away with lots of "c/circa" notes and being less likely to get changed).
Google-friendly part is now well established and just needs people to create thousands of disambiguation pages using hndis. Possibly done with bot help?
See April 2009 Forum:Standardising page names for individuals.
People from Wikipedia
We have hundreds of people in common with Wikipedia, and there is no intrinsic reason why we should not have an article for every individual who has a WP article. They could be copied by bot, as the county pages were copied. But that needs someone proficient with bots, not only for the copying but also to run the "wpxfer" that User:Phlox was using to convert all links to {{wp}}.
- Most people pages on Wikipedia lack basic genealogical information such parents and kids. rtol 11:27, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Forum:Creation of /info pages for all person articles
Can progress once we have improved the info page process. See Genealogy talk:Info pages/list of parameters.