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Community Wishlist Survey 2022/Archive/Genealogy database

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Genealogy database

NoN Outside the scope of Community Tech

  • Problem: Many genealogy websites compete with each other, are chargeable and do not prove filiations.
  • Who would benefit: All those interested in their genealogy will be able to benefit from the research of amateurs, and they themselves will be able to cross ascending trees and accelerate their work.
  • Proposed solution: An open database in which proof of parentage must be provided by a scanned document may link all databases. A name, few informations (limited list of information : dates, job and location), links to other names and at least one scanned document for each link.
  • More comments: Discussions will be about scanned documents interpretations, they will have to be re-written and a discussion page is mandatory. The biggest workload will be in the representation of family trees.
  • Phabricator tickets:
  • Proposer: Bertrouf (talk) 10:01, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

Agreed, therefore instead of asking for a "Genealogical database", I would encourage people to log ideas to implement features that would enable a genealogical database. There's a lot of features that would help, so one step at a time. Supertrinko (talk) 19:22, 11 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah "build something big it surely will be useful" is an easy description but unlikely to succeed in the end. See Community_Wishlist_Survey/FAQ#Pick_one_specific_problem_and_describe_it_in_detail for suggestions on scoping of a wishlist item. —TheDJ (talkcontribs) 13:26, 12 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]