FamilyTree:Community portal

Administrative To-Do

1. Decide on on how marriage end dates should appear & revise those documented in other ways (Template talk:Marriage)
2. Legal: Do we need/want to provide the site's content under a license?
   1. E.g., WikiTree uses the GNU Free Documentation License
   2. E.g., Wikipedia uses the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

Our Terms and Conditions already states "Content on this site may only be used, linked to, or cited for noncommercial purposes with proper attribution." That should be sufficient license to preserve the value of content. --Elindstr 12:42, 15 November 2010 (MST)

Technical To-Do

1. Wiki bug: File uploaded but page is empty... (see also File:Hugh_linn_1800_PA_Adams_Cumberland.jpeg and File:Hugh_linn_1800_PA_crawford_toboyne.jpeg. Is it files with the ".jpeg" suffix?)
2. Wiki bug: Hugh Linn (1753). {{Reflist}} doesn't display when using the googlemaps plugin?
   1. This is apparently a known bug with no resolution

New Feature Ideas

1. Categories for place names (see people related to cities, states, countries) (e.g., Category:Path_Valley,_Franklin_County,_Pennsylvania)
2. Categories for births by year/decade/century (e.g., Category:2000_deaths)
3. Categories for surname (e.g., Category:Quinnell_surname)
4. Different namespaces for person, place, family, source, etc? (e.g. Place:Plymouth,_Massachusetts,_United_States, Person:Charles_Quinnell_(1))
5. Pages (forms) to create new pages/families (e.g., WRG:Start_a_new_page)
6. Visual representation of someone's immediate family tree (e.g., WikiTree's 'Tree' extension, Wikipedia_talk:Family_trees, rodovid's tree extension)
7. Advanced search (e.g., SharedTree's search page)
8. Consider adding a "Personal Stories" section to some pages for easy inputting of stories. The section would invite first-person narrative, which overtime could be integrated into the page's content as was done in Carl Gustav Lindstrom.
9. Aggregate birthdays and display upcoming/current ones on main or family pages "Today is X's Nth birthday" / "X would have be N years old today"