New subject: Wikimedia-genealogy Digest, Vol 2, Issue 4

25 May 2017


      Hi Michael,
I am interested in helping where I can..
   My PLUS's:
     I am retired, and I am interested in Ancestry for my Family Tree and
connecting with others from my families names:  Baxter, Herman, Lewellyn,
(Single first L ) and Ladeau.
    I am good with 'e' mails, and pretty good with keyboard typing.
     I have a fair internet speed for out in the country-- but no cable
runs by my house-- so my connection is not as fast as yours, I am sure! :-)
     I have 2 sons who are really good with computers-- tho they live an
hour away.
   I am learning to work with DropBox more and more..
    I have an Evernote account-- if that helps.
My negatives:
     I am 76 years old, and I am NOT a programmer.
   Tho I am capable of learning, if you have classes on line, planned.
Let me know if I can be of some help-- and WHEN are you going to be moving
forward?
Sincerely,
Mack Baxter
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Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a
proposal for HRE (Michael Maggs)
Re: Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a
proposal for HRE (Michael Smith)
Re: Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a
proposal for HRE (Michael Maggs)


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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 15:58:34 +0100
From: Michael Maggs Michael@maggs.name
To: "Discussion about the Wikimedia genealogy project."
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Subject: [Wikimedia-genealogy] Wikimedia genealogy and historical
        research software - a proposal for HRE
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There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the
Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests
in family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1]
has been set up on Meta.
I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who
would be interested in joining an open source project to create a free
platform independent application called History Research Environment [2]
(‘HRE’) for the serious genealogist or historical researcher.
Considerable effort has been put into high-level planning over several
years, and we are now ready to start writing code.
While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia
project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming
integrated or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that
the software should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to
the agreement of the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of
structured data including verified and fully sourced family trees.
I'd be happy to answer queries.
Michael Maggs
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project
[2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org
(please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the
[wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)

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Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 12:20:36 -0500
From: Michael Smith michaelksmith99@gmail.com
To: "Discussion about the Wikimedia genealogy project."
        wikimedia-genealogy@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-genealogy] Wikimedia genealogy and historical
        research software - a proposal for HRE
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As it happens, both my wife and I were members of Bob Velke's original
development team for TMG in one of Dick Eastman's back rooms at CompuServe
in the early '90s. (That's how we first met, in fact.) If this project is
meant to function as a full-dress desktop application for recording
genealogical research -- perhaps among other, more general types of
historical research -- I would be very interested. I've just spent some
time browsing through the info at the website you linked to and I've
already begun making a list of comments and points to consider.
I've been doing this stuff since the early '60s, before I even did my first
history degree, so all my original family research was
pencil-and-clipboard. I still do "regular" history research, mostly of the
local history variety -- but, to be honest, I've never needed software for
that. Still just a pencil and clipboard, with the addition of a digital
camera a decade ago.
Michael K. Smith
On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Michael Maggs Michael@maggs.name wrote:
...
There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the
Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests in
family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1] has
been
...
set up on Meta.
I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who
would
...
be interested in joining an open source project to create a free platform
independent application called History Research Environment [2] (‘HRE’)
for
...
the serious genealogist or historical researcher.  Considerable effort
has
...
been put into high-level planning over several years, and we are now
ready
...
to start writing code.
While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia
project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming
integrated
...
or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that the software
should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to the agreement
of
...
the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of structured data
including verified and fully sourced family trees.
I'd be happy to answer queries.
Michael Maggs
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project
[2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org
(please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the
[wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)

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