<http://wikia.com/wiki/Collaboration_of_the_month/Genealogy/Blurb> These folks just popped up on my radar, and I think there is a great opportunity here. I don't know too much about their requirements, but this is a quote from the web page: --------- Of particular importance is developing a simpified system for entering basic data about an individual. Individual articles vary in organization, but all "person" articles include certain basic data such as Date of Birth, Date of Death, Spouse, Children, etc. Because of the nature of genealogy the same data often has to be entered on several different articles. For example, a typical article includes a list of the person's children (a child list). That list usually includes basic information about the child, such as their date and place of birth and maybe spouse, etc. Eventually each child on the list may get a separate article as well. That article will include the same information as given in each parent's "child" list. Currently, that information has to be manually duplicated; what's needed is a system that automatically creates the child page, and then transfers the needed information from the parental page - as stand-alone genealogy programs have been doing for years. It can probably be done with text boxes, etc., but currently that doesn't seem to be a capability of the wiki programming. An extension is needed to add that capability. ----------
Sounds like a great use case for rel and hcard to me. Anyone have any idea what a prototype for this would look like? We already have hcard and rel creators, which might make a great starting point for someone. Ben West _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
