Profile template suggestion

Question

Hello.

I have inputted a few of my ancestors and I am now working on a standard template for the profiles.

On a system I worked with previously we had features such as pre populated filter tags which showed all children of that person/marriage? Are there any ways of displaying the children in order of date of birth with a tag? Rather than manually entering in the biography?

The same for siblings?

The same for name of the profile? I notice {{migrating ancestor}} and {{sticker}} auto populate fields. Is there a {{name}} or similar tag they use? I'm trying to be more effective.

I have not made a final decision but I'm quite happy with the profile I designed on https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Delicata-5 I tried to follow the guidelines of order. Feedback welcome.

I want to make sure I am following the standards here before I add my ancestors (I have thousands of records, which I am manually adding, I want them to all have the same structure).

Thanks,
Curtis

Comments

Not sure what happened but {{Name}} does work as expected. Ignore that part of the question.

Is there a list of any other short hand {{ }} functions?

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https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/274321/profile-has-lots-of-red-links-needs-help

Found this post which mentions a few ideas.

 

1. Template:Age 
2. Template:Birth date 
3. Template:Br separated entries 
4. Template:Cite web 
5. Template:Death date and age
6. Template:Infobox 
7. Template:Infobox person 
8. Template:Main other 
9. Template:Reflist 
10. Template:Wikidata image 
11. Module:Infobox 
12. Module:InfoboxImage 
13. Module:Navbar
14. Module:Separated entries 

Answer 1

Curtis,

before trying to create templates, why not join the Template Project have discussions with the group and get help to learn the "how to's"

see...  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Templates

Comments

Thank you.

Answer 2

I like the idea of having a complete family listed by birth dates in a "family template" to add in the bio.

Comments

If you see [[Delicata-5 | Spiriodion Delicata] and click edit then you can see the full formatting. Baptism dates we don't have fields. That would be too much overhead to add to all of WikiTree? I think I saw a thread outlining why we can't have baptism / christening / burial on the data entry?

 

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{{Name}}  was born in Tunis, Tunisia on 26th February 1877 to
[[Delicata-6|Antoine Annetto Giuseppe Delicata]] and his wife [[Attard-60|Fortunata Rosaria Carmela Attard]]

 

I want to change that to simply

{{Birth Details}}

 

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{{Name}}  married [[Mercieca-112 | Concette Conception Mercieca]] on 12th February 1903 in Tunis, Tunisia and they had twelve children together who were all born in Tunisia.

I want to change to below. Which as a template could calculate if they have more than spouse too. (My example, I haven't actually entered the children on the biography!)

{{Family}}
 

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I have:

{{Name}}  died 16th Aug 1950 in Tunis, Tunisia at the age of 83.

I want to change to

{{Death Details}}

Answer 3

from what I have seen {{Name}} is a template that is only supposed to be used in other templates, not in profiles...  before you get too deeply into things you should get official answer....

as users, we cannot create templates, only leaders can.

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Thank you for clarifying.

I only changed {{Name}} on this one profile so far so it isn't a problem to change back. I'll wait and see what the official answer is.

It would be great to have more templates. I understand this is a collaborative site so want others to voice their opinion.

I also need feedback on the standard way to write profiles? I've read the guidelines and it is only the structure and placement that is mandatory? I don't have an issue with that.

Looking to make sure I have the "perfect profile" before I add so many more records. Are there templates not on the list? There was a mention of sysops but I think that is unrelated to my question?

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I suggest you look at the help index. You will find answers to a lot of your questions...

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Help_Index

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those are the name fields on the profile, not the {{Name}} template which is used by other templates, and information on that is probably restricted to leaders since they are the only ones that can create/modify/delete templates

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Right Keith.... I didn't realise they were the fields.  And yes, only leaders can work on templates.

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ut-oh - I use {{Name}} and variations in tons of profiles. I also have the variations in "go-bys". For example, from [this page]:

: {{#profile:Prefix}} {{#profile:RealName}} {{#profile:LastNameAtBirth}} is a descendant of [[:Category:Surety Barons|Magna Carta surety barons]]... 

I saw Curtis's other G2G post first & have sent an e-mail to Aleš asking him to comment on it when he gets a chance (Aleš is usually the person who tells me when I've done something wrong with a template :).

Cheers, Liz

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Aleš is fast! He had already replied but i hadn't seen his e-mail when I posted this. I crafted an answer based on his reply that I posted to the other G2G thread. I think this statement from his reply to me is important to be considered here: "I know it will look strange in gedcom export." I will certainly keep that in mind as I use templates to autofill info in bios in the future!

 

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fyi - I posted separately about using {{Name}} and other shortcuts. See https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/557352/know-that-using-name-similar-text-biography-may-not-good-idea

Cheers, Liz

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Thank you.