How to add a "Descendants of' page to a One Name Study with no administrator?

Question

Have just started working on these two pages:

Category:Descendants_of_Thomas_Watson_b_1671 and Category:Descendants_of_Matthew_Watson_b._1650

would like them to appear on the one-name study Category:Watson_Name_Study

I can't see a way to edit the Watson Name Study page to add these URLs. Can anyone help? Thanks.

Answer 1

From the Watson Name Study page:

"If you wish to contribute, please feel free to add your name (Wiki Link) to the Membership list, add links to any relevant free space pages you're working on or simply leave a message for other researchers at the foot of the page."

You could also become the Coordinator!

Comments

Hi,

I am looking at the Watson page and don't see a way to add my pages!

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Go to this page instead: https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Watson_Name_Study

Both pages are part of the study.

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The page you sent me to does not even have a link to any of the subcategories, so a person arriving at  Watson_Name_Study is at a complete dead end.

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Any and all One Name Studies have a link to their Category page at the bottom, where categories show up.

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Thanks Ros! but that is NOT AT ALL INTUITIVE. To have to scroll all the way to the bottom of a very long page to see, in tiny type, the thing you've come to find, is brutal. I've been at Wikitree quite a while now and I couldn't figure it out. I wish it were easier to see the connection.

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Yes, you have been here quite a while.  If you want to see a category on a person-profile, how do you do it? You automatically scroll down to the foot of the page - and there are the categories!

You will find that some ONS Coordinators put a link to the Category page higher up.

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If you use the WikiTree Browser Extension, there is an option to move the display of categories to higher up on profile pages, either just above the biography text or in the side column. See

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:WikiTree_Browser_Extension#Category_Display

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Not all studies have a membership page. For example, my Curtis Name Study does NOT have one. I do need one, but have no idea how to set it up.

Answer 2

I just edited https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Watson_Name_Study to include my two descendant pages and also (most importantly) the category and subcategories with profiles, https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Watson_Name_Study and I must say, the difference between these pages (and all similar organizational setups) gives me fits.

Comments

May I ask why?

Ordinary person-profile: Data at the top, bio in the middle, categories at the bottom
One Name Study: Info at the top and the middle, categories at the bottom

Answer 3

To have your categories for Thomas Watson descendants and Matthew Watson descendants show up at the top of the Watson name study, you enter them on that page where you want them and instead of the regular category picker format, you enter them like this: 

[[:Category: Descendants of Matthew Watson b. 1650]]

Note the colon before the word category, that ensures the category doesn't get treated like usual categorization but shows up as text, while still linking to the category page.

Answer 4

Th way I'm reading the question and the answers/comments, to me, you still haven't really had your question answered.

The easiest, less stressful way, that I have found is to find a profile already in the study (doesn't matter which one, as long as it is a profile you can get into). Click edit, scroll down to where the input screen is. At the top you will see [[Category: xyz]], Copy it, then paste it in the same place in the profile you are trying to add to the study (In the edit screen).

This will automatically place that profile that you are working on in the study, and will add the category at the bottom (or top if you follow the answer/comment above). Some studies have stickers you can do the same thing with and does the same thing (Though I can't remember if One_Name_Studies Stickers were removed or not).

All of the other answers (except Ros) have me scratching my head because I didn't even know we could add directly to the Name Study (which begs the question: Does the category show up in the profile?). And sometimes, some people have been doing things so long they forget that someone new to anything, anywhere, sometimes needs a little more explanation.

If you already got the answer you were looking for, ignore everything I said.

Answer 5

Thanks for all the suggestions. I found a system which sort of works thanks to all of you. I still think the two levels of categories = quite unnecessarily confusing. And many other people are perplexed too, leading to weird redundancies.