[Mediawiki-l] Suggestions for using MW for a genealogical site

[Grietinus Koops]

Frank,
I'm sure a lot of people would like to make use of them Frank! You did an
excellent job with creating this

Regards, Grietinus

2008/10/1 Frank Middleton <f.middleton op apogeect.com>

> Mike Maughan wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'd like to set up a genealogical site for our family history society.
> > Basic requirements are:
> >
> >   1. shareable wiki (MW, of course)
> >   2. access & update control (only members will be allowed beyond the
> >   locked public pages)
> >   3. genealogical templates (ideally)
> >   4. import interfaces from other sources of genealogical data.
> >
> > Any suggestions, recommendations on this?
> >
> > I'm capable of basic sysadmin & config on MW, plus reasonable editing
> > skills, but I'm an awful long way from being a guru ....
> >
> > -- Regards, Mike
>
> MW make a great base for a genealogical site. I've had one up and running
> for a year now and the users love it - see http://middleton-stjohns.com.
> It makes heavy use of the DPL extension and has a custom date extension
> to handle 1822/3 style dates. If you are interested I'd be only too happy
> to give you a copy of the templates and the specialized extensions (I'd
> put them on the extensions list at MW but I doubt there'd be much call
> for them). It handles all of your requirements, although I use separate
> Perl scripts to generate XML files from external sources (e.g., that
> awful genealogical program a lot of MSWindows folks like to use), and
> about 80% of my MW pages were entered that way. It gracefully handles
> links to external sites as well. The Chronology and Index are also
> generated by daily cron scripts, but you could easily use DPL instead...
>
> Cheers -- Frank Middleton
>
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