Familypedia:Info pages
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| Notice- Info pages have served Familypedia well for the past two years but are being phased out and upgraded to a new format which makes articles easier to create and maintain through form editing. They also allow significantly more powerful features not possible with info pages. Feel free to continue to use info pages if you are familiar with them, but everyone is encouraged to try the new Person form for entering or editing articles. Old info articles will be automatically upgrade via bot sometime in the future when the community decides. For questions, and comments, please post at Forum:Switchover to Showfacts articles. ~ Phlox 2009-09-27 |
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Oftentimes, several articles are using the same piece of information. For example, a spouse article could refer to the death date of the other spouse, a family tree wants current known information on birth and death info as well as photos for multiple generations. If we store such information in one place, all pages may access the most up-to-date information known about the individual. An elaborate example of an Info Page use may be found on: William I, King of England (1027-1087). See also Category:Info pages for thousands of examples.
To start creating info pages, see the following sections of this page.
Instructions
The instructions below are for entering a "new" individual with both an info page and an ordinary page. (To add an info page to an existing article that does not have one, see Genealogy:Info pages/add info page to existing article.)
Info page
Paste or type the name of the proposed article before the /info. (There should be no space between the end of the article name and the /info, and there must be no other "slash" (/) in the name.)
That creates a pre-formatted info page for that article ready for editing by the addition of data. Once you get to the page, you will see many things such as "surname =", "birth year =", "spouse =", "child1 =". To the right of each "=" sign, type or paste known information (without adding "Enter" except for "sources"). If no information, add nothing (and do not delete the line). You can add more later. If there is already an info page for the spouse, you should copy the spouse's exact page name and you may copy all of the spouse's "child" entries.
Previewing will not be much use until the page has been saved and reopened. Just save the page, copy its exact title (except for the "/info"), then return here for the next inputbox.
Article
Then, put the title in the box below and click its button. That creates an infobox-style article that uses the data on the info page (which is technically a "subpage" of the article). Often you will find that the article needs no more work. However, biographical material is usually available for adding under the Biography heading, and some additional categories may be added as desired.
Français : Créer un article d'infobox qui emploiera les données de page d'information
Now you have a page to store a person's basic information (/info) and their actual article. The article displays information by using intricate templates (explained below) that you need not be concerned about.
Copies of the page templates used
- Info page templates
- English Genealogy:Info pages/template
- Article templates
- English Genealogy:Info pages/person article template
- French Genealogy:Info pages/person article template (fr)
What the main subtemplates do
The {{Showinfo person}} template at the top of the article automatically takes much of the information you entered in the info page and puts it into a box at the top right corner of the article.
The {{Showinfo children}} template under the "Children" heading takes "Child..." information from the "/info" page you created and lists the person's children in a table headed with the parents' names. As soon as the children have their own "/info" pages, any information there on birth and death will also be put in this table on each parent's article. (For two or more spouses, there's a little more work, noted in a comment on the page.) Such child info updates automatically each time you open the parent's article.
That same template can generally be used on a child's page to list all siblings automatically. See Help:Siblings.
What you can add
You can add biographical information to the person's article, under the {{Showinfo person}} line and the preset standard headings. This could include not only the person's vital statistics, but what they did, such as their immigration journey, war stories, daily life, external links. Insert your own headings for longer biographies. You can add categories, but standard "BMD" and surname categories are generated automatically from the info page data.
Details of main subtemplates
You will see various templates in the edit box of the person's article page. These generate information from the info page.
| Template | Explanation |
|---|---|
| {{Showinfo person}} | Generates birth, baptism, death, burial information and links to the mother, father, and spouse's article(s), in the form of an infobox at the top right-hand corner of the article. |
| {{Showinfo children}} | Generates the person's children, along with any of the children's birth and death information that is currently present on any child's info page. If no such information is on the child's page, only the child's name (or child's article page name) will appear on the childbox. For children of a second marriage, add {{Showinfo children|family=2}}; and so on for more marriages. If a woman had children with no partner named, the info page should say something (e.g. "Unknown") for the spouse; otherwise, the program will ignore them and not look for subsequent spouses. |
| {{Info categories}} | Generates categories for the person. It will categorize according to surname, birth, death, and marriage places and years, if that information is provided on the info page. In surname categories, individuals are sorted by page name, but in all other categories (including any added by hand) they are sorted by surname. |
Manual use of the forms
You may produce the same result without using the above infoboxes.
- Create a blank subpage, type {{subst:BlankInfo}}, click "Save page", and reopen with "Edit this page"; or
- Create a blank /info subpage to an existing article on a person, and paste the following text into it:
Blank form (English)
{{info|key={{{key|}}}
|Short name = {{subst<noinclude></noinclude>:BASEPAGENAME}}
|Surname =
|Given names =
|Article = {{subst<noinclude></noinclude>:BASEPAGENAME}}
|Full name =
|Alternative names =
|Short description =
|Image =
|Sex =
|Father =
|Mother =
|Birth month =
|Birth day =
|Birth year =
|Birth estimate <!-- c, bef, aft --> =
|Birth place (create links)=
|Birth town =
|Birth county <!-- use for district, département, Kreis --> =
|Birth state <!-- use for province, oblast --> =
|Baptism <!-- e.g. {{date|17|June|1127}} [[London]] --> =
|Death month =
|Death day =
|Death year =
|Death estimate =
|Death place (create links)=
|Death town =
|Death county =
|Death state =
|Burial <!-- e.g.: see Baptism --> =
|Spouse =
|Marriage (date&place with links) =
|Marriage month =
|Marriage day =
|Marriage year =
|Marriage town =
|Marriage county =
|Marriage state =
|Child1 =
|Child2 =
|Child3 =
|Child4 =
|Child5 =
|Child6 =<!-- add more if needed -->
|Spouse2 =
|Marriage2 =
|Child1-S2 =
|Child2-S2 =
|Child3-S2 =<!-- as above -->
|Sources =
|Residence =
|Residence years <!-- YYYY-YYYY --> =
|Residence2 =
|Residence2 years =
|Occupation =
|Occupation years =
|Occupation2 =
|Occupation2 years =
|Signature <!-- image file --> =
|Title =
|OrderCharlemagne =
|Honors =
|Public service =
|Religion =
|Education =
|Schools =
|Citizen of =
|Emigration =
|Physical description =
|Haplogroup mtdna =
|Haplogroup ydna =
|Wikipedia-en =
|Wikiquote-fr =
|Familysearch afn =
|Genealogics pid =
|Day first = <!-- y to display dates with day before month -->
}}<noinclude>{{tabs person}}{{Info table person}}[[category:Info pages]]
</noinclude><!--delete all characters following this paragraph or you will see
extra lines, cells, etc when you do Get's!-->
Tutorial
See the general tutorial and a detailed tutorial dealing with each parameter.
Examples
As noted above, an elaborate example of an Info Page use may be found on: William I, King of England (1027-1087). It is based on a slightly older template, but the main elements are well illustrated.
Example input
{{info|key={{{key|}}}
|Short name = Richard I of England
|Surname =
|Given name = Richard
|Image = Richard coeur de lion.jpg
|Sex = Male
|Birth month =9 |Birth day =8 |Birth year=1157
|Birth place = [[wikipedia:Beaumont Palace|Beaumont Palace]] {{wp|Oxford}}
|Baptism =
|Death month =4 |Death day =6 |Death year=1199
|Death place = [[Châlus|Châlus]] Limoges, [[Limosin]], [[France]]
|Burial = Fontevraud Cemetery, France
|Father = [[Henry II, King of England (1133-1189)]]
|Mother = [[Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine (c1124-1204)]]
|Spouse = [[Berengaria of Navarre (c1163-c1230) ]]
|Marriage = [[12 May| 12 May]] [[1191| 1191]] [[Limassol |Limassol ]], [[Cyprus]]
|Children subpage = children
|Familysearch afn = 8XJ3-VQ
|Genealogics pid = I00005973
|Guid = 11d94016-2ee0-4043-9f45-f089b8ef2b74
|Article = Richard I, King of England (1157-1199)<!--
Miscellaneous fields
-->|Full name = Richard I, King of England, Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, Count of Anjou and Maine
|Short description =
|Alternative names = Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lion-Hearted
|Image caption = caption
|Image width = 200px
|Honors =
|Sources =
*Burke's Guide to the Royal Family, London, 1973, Reference: page 195.
*Kings and Queens of Britain, 1986, Williamson, David, Reference: page 56<!--
Additional families :
-->|Spouse2 =
|Marriage2 =
|Children subpage2 = children2
|Spouse3 =
|Marriage3 =
|Children subpage3 = children3
|Spouse4 =
|Marriage4 =
|Children subpage4 = children4<!--
Language Versions, interwikis:
-->|Article-de = [[Richard Löwenherz (1157)]]
|Article-fr =
|Wikipedia-en = Richard I of England
|Wikipedia-de = Richard Löwenherz
|Wikiquote-fr =
}}<noinclude>{{Info table person}}[[category:Info pages]]</noinclude><!--delete all blank lines following this one! -->
Tutorial
See the general tutorial and a detailed tutorial dealing with each parameter.
Translators needed
The English-language person template needs translating as has been done for French. The pages for es, ja, nl, pt, ru, uk can probably be handled by contributors on this wiki. If you can translate the dozen or so terms from the English into another language, please contact User talk:Phlox.
Costs and benefits of using info pages
Nothing is for free, and the cost of this flexibility is that if the user chooses to employ an info page in an article, it is a little more complex to change information about the individual. New contributors might ignore the edit buttons on the information tables and edit the articles directly. Since they will see only a list of templates such as {{showinfo children}} and some headings, they will wonder where the other information really is and/or they may assume it is not there and duplicate it. This tradeoff is up to the contributor to make. Anyone may choose not to use the "/info" approach and write wiki articles just as they would on Wikipedia and other wikis. Their articles may later be put into "info page" format by other contributors who see advantages.
Spin-off benefits of using info pages include display of the information on other pages, e.g.:
- Family tree charts, as on Robin Forlonge Patterson (1940)
- Extractions using sortable tables, as on Mary Brown
Related topics
- Technical guidelines (Data model, Key naming and values)... see: Genealogy:Info pages/technical guidelines
- Forum proposal and discussion of this approach: Forum:How we encode our data
- Keys partly explained at Genealogy:Info pages/key definitions
