Talk:Family history and genealogy wiki
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[edit] Page name and Google rank
Wikia recommends that wikis make their main pages' names match their content. See points 2 and 3 of http://help.wikia.com/wiki/Advice:Raising_your_wiki%27s_Google_ranking#Step_2:_Move_the_main_page..
Anyone searching for Familypedia should find us easily, but the people we are more interested in attracting will try the two words genealogy wiki.
Right now, that produces a top ten thus:
- 1.
- Genealogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- WeRelate - GFDL-licensed, Mediawiki software-based genealogy wiki in partnership with the Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States, ...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy - 102k - Cached - Similar pages
- 2.
- Genealogy software - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 17 Apr 2009 ... Genealogy software is computer software used to record, organize, and publish genealogical data. At a minimum, genealogy software collects ...
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogy_software - 28k - Cached - Similar pages
- More results from en.wikipedia.org »
- 3.
- Genealogy
- They are all useful to those working the wiki. Guided Tour - A quick tour of the Genealogy Wiki, with a link to tours of other wikis in the Wikia community. ...
- genealogy.wikia.com/ - 46k - Cached - Similar pages
- 4.
- Main Page - Genealogy
- 24 Feb 2009 ... WeRelate is a free public-service wiki for genealogy sponsored by the ... We are the world's largest genealogy wiki with pages for over ...
- www.werelate.org/ - 18k - Cached - Similar pages
- 5.
- Cyndi's List - Wikis for Genealogy
- The genealogy wiki website of the Italian MANUNTA family. WHITNEY Research Group ... Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Wikis for Genealogy ...
- www.cyndislist.com/wikis.htm - Similar pages
- 6.
- Genealogy and Wikis
- Observations on the use of wikis in genealogy. ... Pfuntner Genealogy wiki - a wiki created by Walter Alan Pfuntner, Jr. ...
- dkstaub.tripod.com/wikis.htm - 25k - Cached - Similar pages
- 7.
- GenealogyWiki.org - Shared History
- 18 Sep 2005 ... Free Public Genealogy Wiki. ... You can use this site to share your genealogy research with others and work toward building a truly shared ...
- www.genealogywiki.org/ - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
- 8.
- Hammond genealogy wiki - home
- This wiki is devoted to the history and genealogy of the Hammond family. Please feel free to add your information or edit any of the information you find ...
- hammond.wikispaces.com/ - 20k - Cached - Similar pages
- 9.
- Jewish Genealogy Wiki - Jgene
- 31 Aug 2008 ... This wiki aims to bring together all Jewish genealogy links,resources and databases. All registered users can update and contribute to the ...
- www.jgene.org/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
- 10.
- Category:Genealogy - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- 3 Apr 2009 ... From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jump to: navigation, search. More information about this category can be found at Genealogy. ...
- simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Genealogy - 24k - Cached - Similar pagesWe can't call ourselves "the genealogy wiki".
Hits 8 and 9 are the first to have the actual phrase in their top lines, which suggests that calling the page "Genealogy Wiki" would not guarantee an increase from our rank 3. One may wonder why our hit did not quote our first six words "Welcome to Familypedia, the Genealogy wiki."
Hits 5 and 6 are not wikis, while hits 1, 2, and 10 are not genealogy wikis. One of our serious friendly rivals is listed below us but mentioned in hit 1, where our entry in that section does not mention the phrase, saying just: "# Genealogy Wikia - This is a place where you can create articles about your ancestors, and easily link them to other articles about where and when they lived." - time for overhaul!
How about:
- Familypedia, a Genealogy Wiki
- Family history and genealogy wiki
- Genealogy - a Wikia wiki
- The Wikia genealogy wiki
— Robin Patterson (Talk) 12:14, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
We are also (today) number three with "genealogy wiki" (in quote marks). That's before the "new" more descriptive "Main page" name gets found. Hit number two is a Wikipedia user subpage. I had posted on his talk page in 2007. I've now added to that, and put a note on the subpage talk page too. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 13:14, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
- Family history and genealogy wiki does it for me. We can claim we are the number one free wiki too. That sort of statement is just marketing fluff and we relate shouldn't be allowed to make the uncontested claim. If you don't contest it, people begin to think it is true. Then it snowballs. -~ Phlox 14:40, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
- Big is beautiful, apparently. But, as I've said on my main promotional page, we aim to be the smartest. We possibly are already, thanks to Phlox. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 05:28, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Foreign language in banner
Just curious why there is a message in some foreign language (German?) in the header of the main page? —DeGraffJE talk 23:04, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
- Dutch, to tell Dutch speakers that if they log in they can have Dutch interface. Room for more languages there. — Robin Patterson (Talk) 05:28, 15 June 2009 (UTC)