TNG Integration
From Genwiki
This page should be complete by end of week July 14th
Overview
This wiki is being used to provide 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. For more information on this package, follow the link in the previous line of text.
Within the person pages, an icon to the right of people's names provides a link to the wiki. This is a result of a query to the wiki database to see if there is a page entry that matches.
The icon appears at the title, as in the example above, or through the page.
http://genealogy.mcfadyen.ca/getperson.php?personID=I11&tree=mcfadyen
Within the person pages, the Places information is scanned (up to the first comma) and queries to the wiki database are made. Where matches are found, the matching text is turned into a link to the specific wiki page.
As an example, check the places "Tiverton" next to "Died" and "Kincardine Township" next to the wife's birth place. The appearance of the icon is automatic if there is a corresponding wiki page.
To make the wiki page creation trivial, IF you are admin, a grayed down icon appears at all the possible locations that a wiki icon could appear. Clicking on one of them takes you to the wiki and asks if you wish to create the page. Simply start typing, as you are already familiar with this part, I don't need to explain.
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.