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Phlox is currently active on upgrading Genealogy wikia 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 on a science fiction television series named Phlox. He was the ship's doctor of Star Trek TV series "Enterprise" 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
- 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.
Anyway, if you have any questions or comments on pages Phlox has edited, please post on his discussion page. The following are various a cheat sheets for his use.
Checkups
Recommendations
- Firefox with Operator and Tabs Mix Plus add ons installed.
- Two extra batteries for the portable power tools
Technical
Doozey's Media search (use commons catscan instead)
Doozey's cat dump
User:Phlox/new article
Famly tree template Template talk:Ahnentafel-compact6
Wikia tech mail list [2]
Genealogical Definitions
Semantic forms
SMW queries etc.; Many-valued_properties]
Nice example pages
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
- footnote.com
- Godfrey Memorial Library- looks like good source of colonial period data
- zabasearch
Phlox tools
Other handy info
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=}}
![[Phlox]](http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/common/avatars/4/45/209256.png?20091110081827)
