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User:Phlox
From Genealogy
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
- 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
- remember to check thorp email
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
- tree template User:WMWillis/Tree THIS SHOULD BE A VERY NICE EXAMPLE IF THERE WAS NOT A MISTAKE IN THE FIRST LINE: , but I am not allowed to edit anything at that page, perhaps you? I did this at User:Bergsmit/experimenten and then I could see what was wrong en how nice if it is good ! --Fred Bergman 12:50, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
- 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
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{{subst:User:Phlox/new rosie| name=Name | surname=Hester | date=cYYYY | spouse= | father= |mother=|child=}}