Talk:Family History and Genealogy Wiki

There is now a related Wikicity called Slekt og familier. This is genealogy site in Norwegian. Also, see Wikia:Category:English for other English language Wikia. Angela 23:48, 27 Jan 2005 (PST)

==> Note- the current user agrees that "this really is one planet", and that exchange of ideas, people, and cultures are an important part of living on this planet. However, this user feels that this wiki should perhaps "plant seeds" in multiple regions of the world, so that the database can expand in many directions at once, and that the links between continents and between cultures can be established sooner rather than later. As an additional aside- this user just asks an open question about how this wiki database can/will/should integrate and/or overlap with other internet-based genealogy databases.

September 11

Please see Wikipedia's village pump for a discussion about what to do with Wikimedia's September 11 memorial wiki. Would there be any benefit in moving the articles about people from there to this genealogy Wikicity? Angela 15:29, 24 Feb 2005 (GMT)

The way I understand it, folks are free to add entries that fall within the mission/vision of the Wiki. I'd want the entries to conform to the template we're trying to follow. I guess we would also create Categories for people that are connected to incidents like that. Just as, come to think of it, we should categories like "Apostles" (for the 12 Apostles) and "Sahaba" (for Muhammad's circle) and so on. And yes, a page describing the incident itself would also fit into the mission of this Wiki as I see it. Though I would also encourage not reinventing the wheel and linking liberally to Wikipedia entries and the 9/11 wiki itself. Are those thoughts to disjointed? I am thinking as I go.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 23:39, 24 Feb 2005 (GMT)

See Wikipedia's village pump for a further development of my comment above.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 00:11, 25 Feb 2005 (GMT)

Categories

I am wondering if we are able to use categories in the same was as in Wikipedia using [[Category:The Category]]? Which I presume that the answer is yes. Also, Are we able to produce categories only within the genealogy pages? Is this recommended or frowned upon? What I would think we might do is create a high level category - genealogy, and then lower ones like family surnames, to provide a list of people who have that surname. Sepcifically I want to create a catgory for the surname "Marks". Of course there would be other subcategories. Yewenyi

I agree. Let's go for it!

On the issue of interwiki categories; I don't know whether that is technicall possible. Angela?—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 00:44, 11 Mar 2005 (GMT)

You can create categories here ni the same way you can at Wikipedia. I'm not sure what you mean by interwiki categories though. Angela

Actually, I was wondering if one can have articles from more than one Wiki in one category.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 15:19, 4 Apr 2005 (EDT)

No, that isn't possible unfortunately. It might be worthwhile to request it at MediaZilla: though. Angela 03:52, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Lucky

Hey! I liked the "If you are feeling lucky..." text. I also like what you put in its place, but let's put the old one also back in there.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 13:18, 19 Mar 2005 (EST)

Links to Wikipedia

I discovered recently that to create a link to an article on Wikipedia, you don't need to write the whole URL. You can just type, for example [[Wikipedia:Khan]].—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 13:18, 19 Mar 2005 (EST)

See Wikia:Help:Interwiki link for more on this. Angela

Message from the Founder

You will have heard about the earthquake that hit my native Pakistan the hardest. The last few days have been spent working on creating and shepherding what has become a growing sub-site on the quake within another WikiCity I am associated with]. Here's a backgrounder:

http://ifaqeer.blogspot.com/2005/10/information-site-on-earthquake.html

Please come by, even if just to browse (I am counting on Wiki folk to be too tempted to only be spectators ;)):

http://pakistan.wikicities.com/wiki/Earthquake_10-05

Thank you for the indulgence of this off-topic post.

—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 10:22, 13 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Tree of Life as the logo?

Recently I discovered metawikipedia:Image:TreeOfKnowledge v2.png. I think this would be a perfect logo for a geneology wiki! All you'll need to do is make the background white and cut off the Wikipedia caption (or even replace it with your own caption) and upload it over top of Image:Wiki.png.

If you need any help with doing this feel free to leave me a message at my Central Wikicity talk page.

Hope that helps! :) Garrett 09:50, 18 Oct 2005 (UTC)

Rodovid.org

I am interested in what you are doing here, but thought you might be interested in Rodovid.org another family tree wiki, which has automatic tree generation and GEDCOM import. It is also trying to become a wikimedia project. You comments on this project would be greatly appreciated. --172.214.9.154 20:50, 24 March 2006 (UTC), (User:Bjwebb on Wikipedia, Meta and Rodovid)

Hi again. I noticed I recieved no reply. Rodovid would be interested in merging with the site you have here, what do you think?--172.200.178.107 13:51, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Hi. You have a very nice site at Rodovid.org. I think the reason no one answered is that no one here really "owns" the project (although certainly there are Founders and Administrators) so they cannot really give the go-ahead to 'merge' the two. I would think it would be an unlikely fit, since it's an outside project and has a different mission and even a different way of showing subjects and descendants. However, it is a very impressive site you have and I bet many people here will use it as well as this one. Best of luck with it! Nhprman 19:25, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that and the fact that the idea behind this database is to provide a different format for genealogy records; one more suited to non-Western situations where the basic research hasn't been done, family names are often not used, and so on.

Plus, I'd like to understand further about what "being a Wikimedia project" means. What is the licensing situation of Rodovid? And so on.

—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 22:34, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

I can see what the Rodovid aim is - to be a sister project alongside Wiktionary and Wikibooks etc. Excellent aim! But the Rodovid licence would probably have to change. How about a link with WikiTravel, which has a similar licence?

Anyway, I'm sure we can arrange reciprocal links between many of our pages. Robin Patterson 20:34, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it would like to be a sister project. Personally I do not think the license will be of much importance. CC-BY is attribution, which the GFDL also provides. So CC-BY can be relicensed under the GFDL. This means that pages from Rodovid could be moved to Wikipedia etc. if necessary. Of course, this can not happen the other way round, but is there any text that would want to be moved from Wikipedia etc. to Rodovid? If it does come to it, the license could easily be switched because CC-BY and the GFDL are one-way compatible.

Also, what do you think of the GEDCOM import that we have? I see that you are also developing a format of GEDCOM import and wondered what you thought of ours.

If you want to contact me quickly use my e-mail bjwebb67 [at] gamil [dot] com. I will check this site if I can, but not as frequently. --172.143.48.132 16:36, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

The reason I proposed the G-Wiki when I did was to have a looser format than the one established for most mainstream GEDCOM files. This because I want to work in cultures that are not so mainstream. The filter converting our data to GEDCOM I love because it has the potential for people like me to collect data in our non-conventional ways and then have it converted to GEDCOM. I am not sure about merging this effort with a GEDCOM-defined effort, though...

—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 19:50, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I think GEDCOM efforts really need to wait for version 6.0, the XML version of the standard. That's really going to help coordinate all the various efforts for putting genealogy information online, and will enable comparisons to be made dynamically. 161.181.53.10 22:06, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Template

Can we make the template one of the main navigation links? Chadlupkes 22:14, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

I've read about how to do that, but I forget what it needs. By all means create more links to it from other pages and encourage people to put such a link at the top of their User pages. Robin Patterson 01:14, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

If anyone figures it out and it needs an admin's access, please let me know.

—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 08:49, 7 April 2006 (UTC)