It's all open source and open content so what you want to do would be easy. I haven't made anything publically accessible yet because I want to spend the next month working out any bugs (in the software and the data), but I expect to make everything publically accessible by the end of March.
Adding sync is a good suggestion. MediaWiki has some support for RSS feeds and even OAI-PMH. I'll have to check more into this. -dallan > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jesse Stay > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:13 AM > To: 'LDS Open Source Software' > Subject: RE: [Ldsoss] Feedback request > > How easy is this to cobrand? I'd love to take this and put > it on my own server, and host it just for my extended family > to encourage collaboration between family members. Perhaps > beyond this, a sync action would be good to allow a family > member to then push out the family's data to werelate.org and > update the data there for all to see. > > Jesse > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dallan Quass > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 1:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Ldsoss] Feedback request > > Hello, > > I just launched a website for genealogy - www.werelate.org. > It is part search engine and part wiki. The overall goal is > to help people discover and share information about their > ancestors online. The website is in what I would call an > "alpha" state right now, meaning there is some fine tuning > needed on the look and feel and I'm sure there are a number > of bugs, but it is to the point where I'm interested in > criticisms of the ideas, suggestions for new features, bug > reports, etc. It's sponsored by the Foundation for On-Line > Genealogy, a not-for-profit organization I co-founded earlier > this year. It's all open source, both content and software. > > If you decide to look at it, please don't edit any pages yet > (or more specifically, don't expect your edits to "stick"). > I'm soliciting feedback during the coming weeks on systemic > problems with the data, at which point I'll fix them and reload. > > If anyone is interested, I'd love to get feedback on how the > website could be improved. Help on creating/editing content > or development and administration would also be appreciated. > I started working on this at the beginning of last year > because I wanted to do something interesting and help out in > the area of genealogy. I don't expect to ever get a salary from it. > > The website is composed of four major sections: > > (1) Search: search genealogy-relevant web pages for names, > places, and keywords. You can elect to include related names > in your search, which causes searches on John Smith for > example to return pages containing Jonathan Smythe. The > index currently includes about 5M pages, but that number will > increase over time. The ultimate goal for search is to point > people to information regardless of its location, whether on > static web pages, behind forms, or in offline books and microfilms. > > (2) Names: this section lists related names and possible > misspellings for given and surnames. It has been created > using a combination of manual data entry and a > weighted-edit-distance algorithm. As far as I know it is the > largest such list publically available. > > (3) Places: this section contains what I believe is the > largest database of historic places currently available > online. It integrates data from Wikipedia, the Getty > Thesaurus of Geographic Names, and the Family History Library > Catalog. It currently has places for North and South > America, Europe, and Australia/NZ. Africa, Asia, and the > rest of Oceania should be up soon. > > (4) Resources: this section lists websites and microfilms > that are relevant to genealogy. Currently it includes about > 400K websites and online message boards that we've come > across and roughly 1M microfilms from the LDS Church. > Search (section 1) performs searches over the pages on these > resources. > > Sections 2-4 are wiki's, with the idea that people can > improve them over time. I'm hoping to get feedback over the > next several months on how to make the website more helpful. > > -dallan > > > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > > > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
