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This is the ToDo list for software enhancements to WeRelate. They are listed in no particular order. You are welcome to comment on them by adding a comment to the discussion page.

Contents

Family Tree Explorer

  • New Person, Spouse, Parents, Child buttons?
  • One-click addition of an individual's ancestors and/or descendents
  • Checkboxes to add anc/desc on add this page
  • list all "red" pages needing creation
  • list all linked pages not in your tree, and add-all action
  • global search and replace
  • generate a list of people in your tree as a personal research page
  • control-click opens new tab or window?
  • key to maximize FTE frame?
  • export GEDCOM
  • When you select Unrelated person from the Add menu and enter multiple given names, only the first given name appears on the person page.
  • If you click on a link that takes you outside of WeRelate, the Family Tree Explorer may go away. Have all off-site links open in a new window when you're running Family Tree Explorer.

Person/Family pages

  • put surname prefix in titles in GEDCOM upload?
  • propagate baptism like birth/christening
  • sort families by marriage date on person page
  • larger edit boxes, better support for wiki markup, better handling of line-breaks in source texts and notes
  • propagate marriage date from Family pages to Person page, and sort spouse families by marriage date so earlier marriages appear first.
  • propagate titles of parents, spouses, and children from Family pages to Person page.

Image pages

  • default image titles?
  • rename images functionality?

User and article pages

  • list categories below only; allow surname/places separated by /

Source and MySource pages

  • add images to mysources

Place pages

  • add cemeteries
  • Auto-generated disambiguation pages for places?
  • add preferred name and alt-names to contained places
  • add abbrevs automatically in search (e.g., co, twp)
  • add thumbnails of images that link to the place page

Name pages

  • remove near-spellings from related names; add misspellings to search

Categories

  • Auto-generate category pages
  • Generate categories for all surnames
  • Generate categories for places at county/district level and above only (not towns)
  • Add sub-categories for contained places
  • Add surname-in-place categories as sub-categories to surname and place category

Search

  • search based upon data-fields (e.g., name, place), not just keyword
  • show links to place, surname page, categories near top of search

Family Tree

  • select namespaces in show tree view

Maps

  • Pedigree Maps:
  • colors blue: 50%, 75%, others: 20%, 60%, 80%
  • father's line has a red outline; mother's line has a green outline
  • siblings - birth only
  • simpler icons: circle only
  • jump 1 vs multiple generations > >>
  • video slideshow

Match/merge

  • Merge screen that lists both pages side-by-side to help someone choose what to put on the merged page
  • Unmerge screen that lists the pages prior to merge and the current merged page to help someone choose what to leave on the to-be-unmerged page
  • Agent to identify likely matches and edit pages with links to matching pages and reasons for+against match

Content

  • redo videos when the page look & feel has stabilized

Miscellaneous

  • Bookmarklet, or integrate w Zotero.org

Digital library

  • upload and index PDF files
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