Re: [WikiMayflower] WikiTree Descendants of Famous ancestors

[Lindsay]

we are in the works on this for the euro aristo 
profiles... waiting to see if Chris likes any of the ideas i submitted or if he has some master plan... but i totally agree about this!

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Subject: [WikiMayflower] WikiTree Descendants of Famous ancestors
From: Michael Lechner <mrle...@yahoo.com>
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Hello everyone,

Have been hiding in the back ground and thought I might post a couple of ideas here.

Descendants of Famous ancestors,

Richard Warren's profile has Category link

Categories: Mayflower Passengers | Mayflower Families.

Instead of putting everyone's personal link on Richard Warren's profile page.

How about on the Mayflower families category page, a link to or subcatagory for "Descendants of Mayflower Families". Wikitree members could then use this Catagory link on their profile page. This would be a page similar the the WikiTree Honor code Signatories page. And what if there was a little badge for Mayflower Descendants, War of 1812 Descendants, Sons/daughters of the American Revolution, etc.

This could be used for all of these types of catagories.

I recently contacted the Mayflower Society for permission of such logos and images to be used on the Mayflower Pilgrim's pages and for confirmed descendants. Might be able to design our own logos / images for all the different Societies. I do not like the idea of having to pay for each and every one of them. A WikiTree Descendants Society is fine with me. Besides no room on my hat for all these pins, badges and stars, virtual is better.

Might consider some sort of requirement for posting in this catagory, source and citation minimums.

Some sort of link, picture, comment etc. for posting on our ancestors pages up to the ancestor of note.

See pictures at:

Mayflower photo:
copyrighted:
http://www.wikitree.com/photo/Lechner_Hereditary_Societies.gif
http://www.wikitree.com/photo/Lechner_Ancestor_Immigrants.jpg
not copyrighted:
http://www.wikitree.com/photo/Warren-2883-1.jpg

and others at:

http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cooke-1544

Main Discussion at G2G:
http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2289/can-you-use-wikitree-categories-categorize-your-ancestors?show=2997#a2997

[Chris Whitten]

Thanks for all this, Michael.

Lindsay, you might need to remind me/us of that pending plan.

Here's how I would think it would break down. Maybe this is what
you're talking about, Lindsay.

First, a category like Mayflower Descendants seems sensible for anyone
who wants to use it. It just means putting [[Category:Mayflower
Descendants]] on your own profile. Michael is right that we wouldn't
want to crowd the Mayflower Passengers category or profiles with
something like this. (For background, see
<http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/2289/can-you-use-wikitree-categories-categorize-your-ancestors>.)

Second, we're aiming to create badges for each of the user groups. So,
every participant in the Mayflower Ancestors User Group would have a
badge on their profile for this. We'd do the same thing for
EuroAristo, Acadia, etc., and any other future user groups, e.g.
American Revolution, War of 1812.

Michael, if you and others wanted to go beyond this, to make something
that was vetted, I suppose that could also be done with a category, or
with a normal image like you've been playing with.

Chris

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