2010-07-03 status update: Phlox has been on wiki break for 6 months, but his lawn has not been mowed for a month and the bills are piling up so he may or may not be able to help with the difficulties with forms that apparently surfaced after an upgrade to the Semantic Forms package in March.
During late 2009, he did some work upgrading Familypedia to take advantage of some good work on structured wiki features that has taken place over the last two years.
Phlox—
- This pseudonym refers to a character named Phlox in the science fiction television series "Enterprise" He was the ship's doctor and was known for remedies that appeared at first glance to be primitive and offensive, such as use of bloodworms.
- In 2007, Phlox built metadata templates (Category:Info templates) to implement a structured wiki solution for problems in the genealogy domain (large amounts of tabular statistical data). Currently, he is at work on a more versatile approach using Semantic MediaWiki
extensions. A major challenge in the coming decades will be the volume of fine granularity microhistory articles accumulated in a multilingual global family history wiki.
- Phlox has a side motive in performing large scale real world testbed exercises for possible future Wikipedia upgrades to SMW or SMW like extensions.
- Mission statement: What we are doing at Familypedia
- Other random essays: Phlox aphorisms
- PhloxBot is a bot Phlox occasionally operates for maintenance tasks. Help on this subject may be found on its user page, but if you'd like to discuss something, please leave a message on Phlox's talk page, not the talk page of the bot.
Checkups
- wikia helpdesk patrol • Responses IRC wikia • smw css staff blog
- smw wiki tips • Extensions on request • SMW maillist • Where did I put it?
Recommendations
- Firefox with Operator and Tabs Mix Plus add ons installed.
- Two extra batteries for the portable power tools
Technical
- Editing Reference- Syntax of wikitext
- List of colors accepted textual names, eg "lime" and hex numbers. Also: [1]
- mw:Manual:FAQ {{pre2}}<nowiki>.... for wrapped pre
- "   > [[wikiasite: ]] <includeonly> <nowiki /> more special character codes html entities
- <blockquote style="border: 1px solid blue; padding: 1em;">
- Tools
Nice example pages
| Familypedia:Babel | |||||||||
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| list of languages | |||||||||
- tree template User:WMWillis/Tree
- heavily researched article Captain William Henry Dobbs (1716-1781)
- tabbed interface Thomas (Lt.) Putnam (1615-1686)
To Do
Infrastructure
- commons:Template talk:Siblinglinks
- Collapsible lists?
- Update tables in List of genetic results derived from historical figures
- Add some trees to Riggs DNA article to illustrate
- Famous persons signatures.
- DNA template- make it also do a straight DNA table like those at http://isogg.org/famousdna.htm
- add red highlights for the markers with high polymorphism.
fun stuff
- signatures from wwI draft reg.
Potential references
Phlox tools
Other handy info
- Genealogy wikia stats [3]
- Wikipedia:Template limits
- Wikia does support collapsible navboxes wikia:Help:Dynamic_navigation
- client side processing eg forms in javascript? wikipedia:User:Cacycle/wikEd
Boneyard- Past work
{{subst:User:Phlox/new article2 | name=Name | surname=Hester | date=cYYYY | spouse= | father= |mother= |child= }}
{{subst:User:Phlox/new rosie| name=Name | surname=Hester | date=cYYYY | spouse= | father= |mother=|child=}}