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The WikiProject for Genealogy aims to improve genealogy-related articles and to standardize and verify genealogical information on Wikipedia. While Wikipedia is not and never was intended as a genealogy software, this area may still be further improved. Nearly all royalty articles include a section of brief ancestry, as well as a list of spouse(s) and issue. This practice may possibly be extended outside the bounds of royalty and aristocracy where encyclopedically relevant, while keeping within Wikipedia's notability and verifiability standards.
This project covers all Wikipedia articles related to the subject of genealogy, including businesses, individuals, websites, software, etc. that are involved in the genealogical field. It also covers any genealogical information on notable families, usually formatted as family tree charts, ahnentafel pedigree charts, or lists. Templates to create family trees and ahnentafels are also in the scope of this WikiProject.
Goals
[edit]- Improve articles related to genealogy as a hobby, profession, and academic field.
- Standardize and verify family trees and ahnentafel charts on Wikipedia.
- Standardize and verify lists of descendants on Wikipedia.
- Discuss the creation of a Wikimedia genealogy project.
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When editing genealogy-related articles and genealogical information on Wikipedia, keep in mind the following:
If you have questions about how these guidelines relate to an article you are editing, post your questions on the article's talk page or on this WikiProject's talk page. |
Things you can do
[edit]- Find genealogy-related articles and add the WikiProject Genealogy banner to their talk pages.
- Such as family articles
- Give importance and quality ratings to genealogy articles needing assessment.
- Make improvements to our current article collaboration.
- Expand articles needing expansion.
- Fix articles needing cleanup.
The current Genealogy WikiProject Collaboration is:
Genealogy.
Please help improve the article to good article standards!
- Improve and harmonise contents presentation within family articles
Assessment
[edit]To assess articles, use the WikiProject Genealogy banner on the article's talk page.
- Under class, give the article a quality rating: FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, Stub, List, or NA
- Under priority, give the article a priority/importance rating: Top, High, Mid, Low
For example, a good article of high importance will use this code:
{{WikiProject Genealogy |class=GA |priority=high }}
Genealogy articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 1 | |||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
B | 4 | 5 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 46 | |
C | 3 | 12 | 33 | 96 | 21 | 165 | |
Start | 1 | 7 | 29 | 212 | 62 | 311 | |
Stub | 2 | 6 | 89 | 26 | 123 | ||
List | 6 | 10 | 42 | 1 | 18 | 77 | |
Category | 837 | 837 | |||||
Disambig | 2 | 2 | |||||
Project | 2 | 21 | 23 | ||||
Template | 1 | 3 | 592 | 596 | |||
NA | 1 | 18 | 35 | 54 | |||
Other | 20 | 20 | |||||
Assessed | 8 | 34 | 97 | 483 | 1,508 | 128 | 2,258 |
Unassessed | 21 | 21 | |||||
Total | 8 | 34 | 97 | 483 | 1,508 | 149 | 2,279 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 3,097 | Ω = 4.77 |
Importance scale
[edit]Priority must be regarded as a relative term. If priority values are applied within this project, these only reflect the perceived importance to this project. An article judged to be "Top-Class" in one context may be only "Mid-Class" in another project. The criteria used for rating article priority are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it).
Importance | Criteria | Example |
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Top | Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field. | Genealogy, Surname, Royal family |
High | Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. | FamilySearch, Mayflower Society, Society of Genealogists |
Mid | Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. | Genealogical Proof Standard, Who Do You Think You Are?, Whakapapa |
Low | Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. | Ji (surname 姞) |
NA | Subject importance is not applicable. Generally applies to non-article pages such as redirects, categories, templates, etc. | Template:Ahnentafel |
??? | Subject importance has not yet been assessed. | Category:Unknown-importance Genealogy articles |
Quality scale
[edit]Class | Criteria | Reader's experience | Editing suggestions | Example |
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The article has attained featured article status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured article candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured article criteria:
A featured article exemplifies Wikipedia's very best work and is distinguished by professional standards of writing, presentation, and sourcing. In addition to meeting the policies regarding content for all Wikipedia articles, it has the following attributes.
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Professional, outstanding, and thorough; a definitive source for encyclopedic information. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | Cleopatra (as of June 2018) |
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The article has attained featured list status by passing an in-depth examination by impartial reviewers from WP:Featured list candidates. More detailed criteria
The article meets the featured list criteria:
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Professional standard; it comprehensively covers the defined scope, usually providing a complete set of items, and has annotations that provide useful and appropriate information about those items. | No further content additions should be necessary unless new information becomes available; further improvements to the prose quality are often possible. | List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events (as of May 2018) |
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The article is well organized and essentially complete, having been examined by impartial reviewers from a WikiProject or elsewhere. Good article status is not a requirement for A-Class. More detailed criteria
The article meets the A-Class criteria:
Provides a well-written, clear and complete description of the topic, as described in Wikipedia:Article development. It should be of a length suitable for the subject, appropriately structured, and be well referenced by a broad array of reliable sources. It should be well illustrated, with no copyright problems. Only minor style issues and other details need to be addressed before submission as a featured article candidate. See the A-Class assessment departments of some of the larger WikiProjects (e.g. WikiProject Military history). |
Very useful to readers. A fairly complete treatment of the subject. A non-expert in the subject would typically find nothing wanting. | Expert knowledge may be needed to tweak the article, and style problems may need solving. WP:Peer review may help. | Battle of Nam River (as of June 2014) |
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The article meets all of the good article criteria, and has been examined by one or more impartial reviewers from WP:Good article nominations. More detailed criteria
A good article is:
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Useful to nearly all readers, with no obvious problems; approaching (though not necessarily equalling) the quality of a professional publication. | Some editing by subject and style experts is helpful; comparison with an existing featured article on a similar topic may highlight areas where content is weak or missing. | Discovery of the neutron (as of April 2019) |
B | The article meets all of the B-Class criteria. It is mostly complete and does not have major problems, but requires some further work to reach good article standards. More detailed criteria
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Readers are not left wanting, although the content may not be complete enough to satisfy a serious student or researcher. | A few aspects of content and style need to be addressed. Expert knowledge may be needed. The inclusion of supporting materials should be considered if practical, and the article checked for general compliance with the Manual of Style and related style guidelines. | Psychology (as of January 2024) |
C | The article is substantial but is still missing important content or contains irrelevant material. The article should have some references to reliable sources, but may still have significant problems or require substantial cleanup. More detailed criteria
The article cites more than one reliable source and is better developed in style, structure, and quality than Start-Class, but it fails one or more of the criteria for B-Class. It may have some gaps or missing elements, or need editing for clarity, balance, or flow.
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Useful to a casual reader, but would not provide a complete picture for even a moderately detailed study. | Considerable editing is needed to close gaps in content and solve cleanup problems. | Wing (as of June 2018) |
Start | An article that is developing but still quite incomplete. It may or may not cite adequate reliable sources. More detailed criteria
The article has a meaningful amount of good content, but it is still weak in many areas. The article has one or more of the following:
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Provides some meaningful content, but most readers will need more. | Providing references to reliable sources should come first; the article also needs substantial improvement in content and organisation. Also improve the grammar, spelling, writing style and improve the jargon use. | Ball (as of September 2014) |
Stub | A very basic description of the topic. Meets none of the Start-Class criteria. | Provides very little meaningful content; may be little more than a dictionary definition. Readers probably see insufficiently developed features of the topic and may not see how the features of the topic are significant. | Any editing or additional material can be helpful. The provision of meaningful content should be a priority. The best solution for a Stub-class Article to step up to a Start-class Article is to add in referenced reasons of why the topic is significant. | Lineage (anthropology) (as of December 2014) |
List | Meets the criteria of a stand-alone list or set index article, which is an article that contains primarily a list, usually consisting of links to articles in a particular subject area. | There is no set format for a list, but its organization should be logical and useful to the reader. | Lists should be lists of live links to Wikipedia articles, appropriately named and organized. | List of literary movements |
??? | Article quality has not yet been assessed. | Articles for which a valid quality rating has not yet been provided are listed in this category. | A quality parameter should be assigned according to the assessment department of the WikiProject. | Category:Unassessed Genealogy articles |
Article Alerts
[edit]Templates
[edit]The most common template used for displaying ancestry trees is {{Ahnentafel}}
(for what the German word Ahnentafel means see the Wikipedia article "Ahnentafel"). For help on how to use {{Ahnentafel}}
and other templates and methods that are available for displaying family/ancestory trees see Help:Family trees and the documentation within the templates.
Current template discussions
[edit]Place below any templates that are potentially useful for members of this project and that are currently the subject of a discussion (most recent first):
- These should automatically appear in Article Alerts.
Wikidata equivalent
[edit]A Wikidata ancestry equivalent similar to WikiTree, for a language independent encyclopedically relevant database, likely containing mostly monarchs and such. Thus, each generation where ancestry is deemed relevant in biographical articles would not need a complete reformatting, while access and implementation over the language board would be facilitated. Naturally, if applied, a new template rendering from this wikidata family tree would be needed. Also, precaution of personal integrity would be a main issue.
Members
[edit]Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join this project. Currently active participants are also listed here.
The following are registered members of this WikiProject:
- User:JohnAlbertRigali (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- (currently not very active on Wikipedia, but now trying to resurrect this WikiProject nonetheless)
- User:KuatofKDY (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs) AKA: Darius von Whaleyland
- (had previously attempted to resurrect the project and standardize genealogical boxes currently in use at Wikipedia; also the founder of Wikipedia:WikiProject Succession Box Standardization and a frequenter to any royalty page)
- User:Kthapelo (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- (very interested in genealogy, and tracking how people tie together through their blood lines)
- User:OlliffeObscurity (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- (amateur genealogist with advanced knowledge of genealogical systems and terminology; strongly agreeing with and frequently adhering to the project goals!)
- User:Iamthecheese44 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- (amateur genealogist with many years of experience; interest is in royalty pages and genealogy in general. Member of Ancestry.com, Geni.com, and others)
- Dan Koehl (talk)
- Founder of Wikipedia:WikiProject Genealogy Dec 9, 2002 ([link to first edit])
- Interest is European middle-ages nobility and royalty, but also genealogy in general. Member in Wikitree, Geni.com and several other genealogy websites.
- User:Mark Miller (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Interest in Hawaiian Royalty, British royalty and European royalty as well as genealogy in general.
- User:CM2G0005 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- British, USA, eastern European experience. Aspire to start articles and expand stubs, translate, edit, and source other language settlement pages into English with reliable sources from The Wikipedia Library.
- User:CsikosLo (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Amateur genealogist
- Interest is European middle-ages nobility and royalty, but also genealogy in general.
- User:Weitzhandler (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Genealogist
- Interested in Jewish Genealogy in general, but my dream is to have a free open world spanning family tree
- I'd love to see a Wikimedia genealogy project. I invite project members and passersby to contribute to this discussion at Meta-Wiki. ---Another Believer (Talk) 01:09, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
- I'm with Another Believer. To restrict this project to Wikipedia in the Eglish language is not a very good idea. What about a domain Wikitree, Wikigenea or something similar? Klaas `Z4␟` V 08:41, 7 February 2017 (UTC)
- User:Gap9551 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Strong interest in a Wikimedia genealogy project aimed at building a public single tree (one profile per person), including an option for adding living people using privacy controls. People with Wikipedia entries in any language, or with content on other projects, can be linked. I'm currently a member of Wikitree and WeRelate. Gap9551 (talk) 18:32, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- ChristianKl (talk) 13:20, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
- User:Adityavagarwal (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Happy to help!
- User:AndersHellstrom2 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Amateur. Genetic genealogy/tools/websites, links in notables' articles to genealogical material or websites when appropriate.
- Salgo60
- Swedish genealogy has free church books online and we have done a lot see Swedish Church parishes, Phabricator project space wmse-riksarkivet-tora I have initiated or populated properties Dictionary of Swedish National Biography ID (P3217), Hembygdsportalen ID (P6192), Swedish Gravestone ID (P5259), Swedish place name register SOFI (P5536), Swedish Portrait Archive ID (P4819), Swedish National Archive reference code (P5324)....
- User:Rollidan (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Amateur. I'll help where I can!
- User:Tea and crumpets (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Professional genealogist. Want to improve accuracy of genealogy-related articles and genealogical content on Wikipedia. Also see talk page for my thoughts on project goals.Tea and crumpets (talk) 22:43, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
- User:Tamsier (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Amateur genealogists with years of experience. I am particularly interested in Sub Saharan Africa family history and genealogy, especially Senegambian precolonial royalty.Tamsier (talk) 01:01, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
- User:Ibn_Daud
- Amateur genealogists. I mostly focus on early Rabbinic genealogy Ibn Daud (talk) 06:04, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
- User:Brookford (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- European, mostly Belgian genealogy. --Brookford (talk) 20:39, 22 May 2020 (UTC)
- User:Carsrac (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Amateur genealogist, focused mostly on Dutch and European genealogy, active member of Geni.com, translator for Geni.com and MyHeritage. Active in Wikidata and nl.wikipedia to correct the genealogy errors and add genealogy info.*
- User:Eewilson
- Intermediate–Advanced amateur genealogist with decades of experience primarily on research in the Midwestern United States (Indiana and Ohio), Southeastern United States (North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia), and those with ancestry in the Society of Friends (Quaker). —Eewilson (talk) 08:15, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
- User:Firvales73 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:Terrickisaiah555 (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Amateur with quite a few years of experience. I'm quite familiar which just about all the main sites and resources available. Hoping to help where I can.
- User:StarTrekker (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- Amateur with great interest in ancient Roman prosopography.
- User:WiltedXVI (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:Azurerae (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:Ookap (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)
- User:KINGHB190
- Interested in Irish family history, especially the Hiberno-Norman House of Burgh. I have been researching my family history since 2018.
- User:Arx76
- Interested in genealogy of French noble families.
- User:BethanyGrahamOZ
- I am passionate about genealogy and love uncovering the stories of the past.
Userbox
[edit]![]() | This user is a participant in Wikiproject Genealogy. |
Feel free to insert the Template:User WikiProject Genealogy on your user page with the following code: {{User WikiProject Genealogy}}.
See also
[edit]WikiProject Biography |
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Wikimedia genealogy projects
[edit]Partner projects
[edit]Related WikiProjects
[edit]- WikiProject Biography
- WikiProject Ethnic groups
- WikiProject Genetics
- WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology
- WikiProject Historical information
- WikiProject Human Genetic History
- WikiProject Lists
- WikiProject Royalty and Nobility
External links
[edit]Tools
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
Genealogy databases
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