WRG:Website Conversion Project

Open Issues

• Create appropriate help topics - IN PROGRESS.
• Create style guidelines.
• Decide on appropriate usage of category pages.

Content Conversion Status

Whitney Research Group Section - COMPLETE

Mailing List (to be merged with WRG section) - Everything COMPLETE, except the list archives - NOT STARTED.

Archives - IN PROGRESS

Bible Records - DONE

Biographies - IN PROGRESS

Cemeteries - IN PROGRESS

Census Records - Index IN PROGRESS, content NOT STARTED

City Directories - IN PROGRESS

Databases - These will be handled differently

Extracts - IN PROGRESS

Pierce - DONE, except indices

Phoenix - IN PROGRESS

Immigration Records - DONE

Land Records - DONE

Old Letters - NOT STARTED

Military Records - NOT STARTED

Newspapers - NOT STARTED

Photos - NOT STARTED

Probate Records - NOT STARTED

Vital Records - DONE

Localities - These will be handled with categories

Families - IN PROGRESS

Queries - Moved to Miscellaneous

Resources - DONE

Search - This will be handled differently

Miscellaneous - IN PROGRESS

• Detailed Conversion List

Tim's Projects

• Page Creation - create a system using the InputBox extension and a set of templates to allow the easy creation of new families and other pages.
• Quick Start Guide - finish
• Help files - finish importing
• Phoenix Project - finish template sample, write code to convert, upload all pages
• General Page Conversion - write code to convert certain html commands to wiki style to ease import
• Databases - implement a system to properly display our gedcom databases
• Search - create an advanced search page
• Recent Pages Extension

• Add page overflow links and offset capability
• Add sort option (used for listing all pages, etc.
• Add an option to disable the inclusion of subpages.

Closed Issues

• Determine appropriate namespaces - COMPLETE
• Decide if the My Lineage links on user pages is sufficient, or if we should also have the Member Lineages page - COMPLETE
• Decide on appropriate census index page names - COMPLETE
• Pierce Project - write code to convert and then upload all pages - COMPLETE

• Strip off the existing header and footer information
• Split up the sets into individual pages
• Add new anchors for children if they don't already exist
• Convert the existing links from referencing the sets to referencing the exact pages
• Add new header and footer information
• Convert all links to wiki style
• Convert the PRE sections to DIV sections (they allow embedded anchors, PRE sections don't in the wiki)

• Citations - It appears that the Cite functionality that I was investigating will not work for our website.