Banat Location Categories

Surnames/tags: Banat Hungary slavic_roots

This page describes how categories for the Banat region should be set up. It can probably also be applied to other former Hungarian regions, like Batschka and Syrmia.

Rationale

The Banat is an area that used to belong to the former Kingdom of Hungary, until it was split in 1921 between Hungary, Romania and later would become Serbia. Additionally there were a lot of mainly German villages, which are still nowadays called by their German names by a lot of genealogical literature, while other sources might use the contemporary Hungarian name or the latest Romanian/Serbian one.

This will make it very hard for one share of WikiTree users to find the right category for their profiles, if it doesn't carry the place name from the source. In order to tackle this problem, a three language category structure is proposed to identify the villages.

They will be connected using the Template:Aka, which will provide a way to navigate between the language version categories. Additionally it will make sure, that all language versions will contain the same amount of profiles, regardless which of the language categories is added.

Since in those places multiple language versions are still used by the local population, most categories will carry the suffix of the current country the village belongs to, but spelled in the corresponding language of the village name. Like this, the categories in Romanian and Serbian will also blend in with other categories for those countries, that are not part of Banat, Batschka etc. and which might not require multilingual categories. Additionally there can be historical categories below Category: Kingdom of Hungary, where there are already subcategories for all the historical counties of the former kingdom.

If the place has multiple names/spellings in one language, the aka template also allows multiple category versions of one language.

In the current approach, there are no Serbian categories created for places in today's Romania and Hungary vice versa. If this is desired, we only need to create the countries in each others language as parent category.

Contents 1 Rationale 2 Examples 2.1 Hungarian (present-day) 2.2 Hungarian (historical) 2.3 German 2.4 Romanian 2.5 Serbian 3 How To 3.1 WikiTree BEE 3.2 Bookmarklet 3.2.1 Installation 3.2.2 Usage 3.3 Patience afterwards

Examples

Hungarian (present-day)

• e.g. Category: Nagyjécsa, Románia
  • below Category:Románia (Hungarian spelling)
• e.g. Category: Versec, Szerbia
  • below Category: Szerbia
• e.g. Category: Vaskút, Magyarország
  • below historical Category:Bács-Bodrog vármegye
  • below present-day Category:Bács-Kiskun Megye

Hungarian (historical)

• e.g. Category: Nagyjécsa, Magyarország
  • below historical district e.g. Category:Torontál vármegye or Category:Temes vármegye
  • ending in 1918
• list of villages per historical districts
  • Temes villages
  • Torontál villages

German

• e.g. Category: Großjetscha, Rumänien
  • • also spelling variation Category: Grossjetscha, Rumänien possible
  • below Category:Rumänien
• e.g. Category: Werschetz, Serbien
  • below Category:Serbien
• e.g. Category: Waschkut, Ungarn
  • below Category:Ungarn

Romanian

• e.g. Category: Iecea Mare, România
  • below a district category Category:România , mostly Category:Județul Timiș or Category: Județul Arad

Serbian

• e.g. Category: Vršac, Srbija
  • below Category:Vojvodina (fits for Banat, Batschka and Syrmia)

How To

WikiTree BEE

Install WikiTree BEE on your browser (currently not available for MacOS/iOS, please use bookmarklet approach below).

1. Visit English, German, Hungarian, Romanian or Serbian Wikipedia article about the place you want to create.
2. Mark a translation on the page, e.g. select the word Nagyjécsa from the German Wikipedia article about the Romanian village Iecea_Mare
3. Click on the BEE button
4. Enter the language you want to create (hu for Hungarian, ro for Romanian, sr for Serbian, de for German and kuk for historical Hungarian)
5. Now a new tab is opened with the category template code filled it. Check it.
6. Hit preview and fix red categories (e.g. by deleting one of the suggested districts)
7. Save the category

Bookmarklet

There is the bookmarklet WikipediaBanatLocationCategories.js which helps creating all those categories, while being on a single Wikipedia article about a village in either English, German, Hungarian, Serbian or Romanian language. A bookmarklet (Wikipedia) is a piece of code that is stored in a browser bookmark and that is executed by clicking on the bookmark.

The bookmarklet currently doesn't support creating of categories for locations in present-day Hungary.

Installation

The top of the previously linked page, contains installation instructions. The bookmarklet can be installed the same way as the more general one, which is shown in this video.

Usage

1. Mark a translation on the page, e.g. select the word Nagyjécsa from the German Wikipedia article about the Romanian village Iecea_Mare
2. Start the bookmarklet by clicking on the bookmark in your browser
3. Enter the language you want to create (hu for Hungarian, ro for Romanian, sr for Serbian, de for German and kuk for historical Hungarian)
4. Now category code is shown. Copy it.
5. The category opens in another tab for editing (you might need to allow Wikipedia to open new windows, in case you're asked).
6. Paste the category code in the edit field of the category tab that just opened
7. Hit preview and fix red categories (e.g. by deleting one of the suggested districts)
8. Save the category

Patience afterwards

It will now take one or two days until the orange navigation bar is in place and probably another day until the category content in synced. After this has been completed, adding a profile to one of the categories will make it part of all language version categories.