Re: My Comments on the question about 'moving ahead now'--
Mack Baxter;'s comments:
I am very new to this group, and this process, so I can only surmise what all of you who have been here for 'years' are conquering to get to this point in time. I have had a sincere interest in developing genealogy of my family for years-- but I refuse to sign up to a web site and pay over $100 a year for something I only use a few hours a month! (Yet I am willing to support the work of a noble, volunteer effort like this for many hours a month-- giving my time freely..)
It seems to me, that we need to get started on developing this open source process-- and that the Wiki organization must see the value and importance of backing such a movement into the future. (However-- what do I know about the financial and 'political' backing behind Wiki! :-) )
I am not a programmer, just a retired old man, that is eager to help where I can.
So-- let's put some harnesses on, and let's get to work!
Eagerly,
Mack Baxter Upstate New York. (Wine Country)
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- Re: Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE (Dan Koehl)
Message: 1 Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 01:11:16 +0200 From: Dan Koehl dan.koehl@gmail.com To: "Discussion about the Wikimedia genealogy project." wikimedia-genealogy@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, John Lubbock wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-genealogy] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE Message-ID: <CACKb8Daa_nr8qht=gS8OQuGZMtqqubrwRYxTiYvaQdoG51DhNg@mail. gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Dear Michael, thanks again for your question and request. I hope that more members of this list will share their thoughts about this. I guess no one on the list were so ready for this kind of question, we have sort of moved slowly towards a moment when we think we are so many that we can start to look into next step, so far we were just discussing and discussing.
Your question is interesting relevant, and should have had a much better feedback, than those weeks without even an answer.
Lets bring your request a further step, so we can soon move it to the meta pages, and discuss openly.
I have to admit, I was not totally sure about your question, and maybe this goes for others, would you mind tell us more about your plans with this and anything more you want to share. It sounds like a tool, connected to Wikidata, which already sounds very good for a Wikimedia genealogy tool. you may actually turn up with your request in the perfect moment, where technical issues needs to be discussed, we were simply not there, but I guess that the group members will just consider each and every step towards the vision of a wikimedia genealogy website as positive, why your question may actually push us all into next step..
Please fill us in a bit more, and keep in mind, that most users on the list are not programmers, why technical details, may be needed to be presented in an easy way to understand.
I will be excited to get some input from you all on this list, as well as weather we need to wait more, or should go to next step, and start to creat the user group, in order to contact the wikimedia for further questions to move on with the project.
Dan Koehl
2017-05-24 16:58 GMT+02:00 Michael Maggs Michael@maggs.name:
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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