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| − | # Within the person pages, an icon ([[Image:doc.gif]]) to the right of people's names will be displayed each time a wiki page is found to match the individual's name | + | # Within the person pages, an icon ( [[Image:doc.gif]] ) to the right of people's names will be displayed each time a wiki page is found to match the individual's name |
| − | # If the TNG user is logged in as "admin" then a grayed icon ([[Image:new_doc.gif]]) to the right of all possible wiki link points will be displayed | + | # If the TNG user is logged in as "admin" then a grayed icon ( [[Image:new_doc.gif]] ) to the right of all possible wiki link points will be displayed |
# Within the person pages, all "places" are examined for string matches to the wiki database. If the start of the place string, up to the first comma matches a wiki page, then that portion of the place string is changed into a link to the applicable wiki page | # Within the person pages, all "places" are examined for string matches to the wiki database. If the start of the place string, up to the first comma matches a wiki page, then that portion of the place string is changed into a link to the applicable wiki page | ||
Revision as of 19:17, 10 July 2006
This page should be complete by end of week July 14th
Contents
Overview
This wiki provides additional background on people and places associated with the McFadyen and Parker genealogy research found at genealogy.mcfadyen.ca It has been categorized into two separate sections: People, and Places.
The Genealogical information is managed through a MySql database and includes management for Births, Deaths, Marriages, Photos, Histories, and their relationships. The Genealogy software package is called The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding © 2001-2006, created by Darrin Lythgoe, Sandy, Utah. (TNG) For more information on this package, follow the link in the previous line of text.
Although the TNG software does not come preconfigured to work specifically with Mediawiki, only a few modifications to the base TNG software are required to achieve a moderate wiki integration. This page includes the information neccessary to make those changes.
Resulting TNG features
- Within the person pages, an icon (
) to the right of people's names will be displayed each time a wiki page is found to match the individual's name
- If the TNG user is logged in as "admin" then a grayed icon (
) to the right of all possible wiki link points will be displayed
- Within the person pages, all "places" are examined for string matches to the wiki database. If the start of the place string, up to the first comma matches a wiki page, then that portion of the place string is changed into a link to the applicable wiki page
- Examples of this may be found on the page: Example Page. Check the place "Tiverton" next to "Died".
The appearance of the icon or place link is automatic if there is a corresponding wiki page.
I have also started to include links in some of the notes for pictures and histories, however this is a strictly manual entry (using standard html href=.... language) as below, check the History line at the bottom, there is an embedded link.
http://genealogy.mcfadyen.ca/getperson.php?personID=I3942&tree=mcfadyen
Within the wiki site, I added the typical categories as you see here http://genwiki.mcfadyen.ca/index.php/Category:People
and one for places. Then stuck them on the sidebar for easy access.
I have also started a reference page (a couple days ago) to collect the background material that I occasionally get asked for http://genwiki.mcfadyen.ca/index.php/Reference_Material_Page
Within the wiki pages, you will see links on peoples names. I simplified this by creating an extension to the page language. The form of this is text, usually their name This would link back to me, since I am person number 1 in my database.
This new tag, creates an appropriate link back into my TNG person pages.