Hi all,

Just to say I think this a very useful innovation and it would be great to see it as part of the Wikimedia genealogy ; ).

I have no experience as a developer, but have been working on historical material across platforms, most recently Wikisource as well as Wikipedia. As mentioned before, I am keen to see items on Wikisource annotated:

Historical documents made more readable by having links to people and places mentioned. This can be a two way process as those documents can also be used as sources.
It would be good if we could see where these documents are cited by more recent material.

An area I am interested in as a non-tekkie is helping look at the user-experience. I would be interested in being involved in the project at that stage.

all the best

Fabian

aka Leutha

On 30 May 2017 at 11:53 Charles Matthews <charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
On 30 May 2017 at 00:11 Dan Koehl <dan.koehl@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Not crossposted. If I didn't reply immediately, it is because I don't currently
have much time to contribute, as well as not being competent as a developer.
I have encountered several views on genealogy and Wikimedia, of which two are
(a) we need a separate genealogy project, and (b) Wikidata can handle enough
salient genealogical facts. Having (c) we need a historical project which would
include well-referenced genealogy and which will be close to Wikidata is
certainly a useful formulation; and we apparently have such a project, though
not in the Wikimedia family.
So I approve. One reason to broaden the scope could be to include information
about land holdings, which until about a century ago was a major part of family
history. So there is some point, indeed.
Actual practice on Wikidata does include working, via mix'n'match tool, with
digital humanities projects such as Stanford's Kindred Britain,
http://kindred.stanford.edu/ . I find that site to be reliable on relationships,
not always on vital dates. I would encourage discussion of this area to see
integration of Wikimedia round Wikidata, and "holding areas" of non-Wikimedia
projects around Wikidata, as two sides of a coin.
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