[pmwiki-users] genealogy with pmwiki ?

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Thu, 17 May 2007, Knut Alboldt wrote:

> Well I think, collecting the data isn't to hard:
> - a group for persons, locations, date-tables etc
> - one page per person, the fields could be adapted from other existing
> good application (e.g PAF)
> - like in PAF, a person's pagename should depend on an unique ID, not on
> the person's name

The ID could simply be date of birth, plus some unique distinguishing tag 
- a number or name?

> maybe it's worth it to gather some of these specification on a 
> pmwiki.org-page (is a cookbook-entry the right place ?) to discuss this 
> or to gather the results of the discussion ?

This sounds like a good idea. I don't think the cookbook is right at the 
moment though - I'd expect more than one page to be needed... perhaps 
create a new group at pmwiki.org?  (This is assuming that Patrick doesn't 
mind)

/Christian

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