[pmwiki-users] genealogy with pmwiki ?

Knut Alboldt pmwiki at alboldt.de
Fri May 18 16:44:00 CDT 2007


christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com schrieb:
> 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?
This must be a user or system generated unique id (e.g. timestamp of 
pagecreation in (milli)sec), cause all other data may change during some 
updates:
- name may be wrong or not unique
- birthday may be first unknown or have to be corrected later on etc
- etc
PAF is generating a unique number by itself (as far as I can remember). 
E.g. a sql autoincr would do it
if this unique id is used for the page name, the page could be 
identified using a title-markup (e.g. name and date of birth), may be 
automatically generated using PTVs. (I like them more and more :-)
> 
>> 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)
well, Pm, what do you think ? Or shall we set up an own wiki ?
> 
> /Christian




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