<http://wikia.com/wiki/Collaboration_of_the_m
onth/Genealogy/Blurb>
These folks just popped up on my radar, and I think there is
a great
opportunity here. I don't know too much about their
requirements, but
this is a quote from the web page:
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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 the person's children (a child list). That list
usually
includes basic information about the child, such as their
date and
place of birth and maybe 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 - as
stand-alone
genealogy programs have been doing for years. It 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.
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Sounds like a great use case for rel and hcard to me.
Anyone have any
idea what a prototype for this would look like? We already
have hcard
and rel creators, which might make a great starting point
for someone.
Ben West
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