Interesting to read the responses to Jim's original posting - lots of good stuff. DokuWiki and http://werelate.org are both well worth checking out.
Jim> The GEDCOM file is merely a one-time transport mechanism. Jim> Once the pages are up, my Wiki will become the official Jim> repository I'm sure Jim will find the Gedcom->DokuWiki conversion very simple. Paul's module is perfect for quick and easy hacks. But Jim only wants to go "one way". Reversing the process - creating a Gedcom back from the Wiki after relatives have "had a go" would, I'd suggest, be a nightmare. The Holy Grail - to me, at least - is a Wiki driven by a Gedcom-derived database, which can't be wrecked by the users, and ends up producing a standard Gedcom after their edits. The Gedcom format remains, for better or worse, the lingua franca of genealogical data. Better minds than mine are being applied to this problem, but, it seems, with little success. I cringed when I saw my words "I think I can claim to know the Paul's (excellent) Gedcom module pretty well" - an unintentional spurious "the", but, far worse, unintentional conceit. Mea culpa. Mike
