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 - DONE

Mailing List

List Archives - IN PROGRESS

1995 - DONE

1996 - DONE

1997 - IN PROGRESS

1998 - NOT STARTED

1999 - NOT STARTED

Everything else - DONE

Archives

Bible Records - DONE

Biographies - DONE

Cemeteries - DONE

Census Records

Index page - DONE

Content pages - IN PROGRESS

City Directories - DONE

Databases - IN PROGRESS

Extracts

Books and Monographs

Pierce

Content - DONE

Indices - NOT STARTED

Phoenix - IN PROGRESS

Others - DONE

Periodicals - DONE

Immigration Records - DONE

Land Records - DONE

Old Letters - DONE

Military Records - DONE

Newspapers - DONE

Photos - NOT STARTED

Probate Records - DONE

Vital Records - DONE

Localities - IN PROGRESS

Families - IN PROGRESS

Queries - DONE (and 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.

Robert's Projects

• City Directories - DONE
• Probate Records - DONE
• Newspapers - DONE
• Cemeteries - DONE
• Phoenix Errata - DONE
• Source and clean up Family pages

• English - DONE
• John¹ Whitney (1592-1673) - DONE
• Second generation - DONE
• Third generation - NOT STARTED

• John³ Whitney (John², John¹)
• Ruth³ (Whitney) Shattuck (John², John¹)
• Nathaniel³ Whitney (John², John¹)
• Samuel³ Whitney (John², John¹)
• Joseph³ Whitney (John², John¹)
• Sarah³ (Whitney) Harrington (John², John¹)
• Elizabeth³ (Whitney) Warren (John², John¹)
• Benjamin³ Whitney (John², John¹)
• Moses³ Whitney (Richard², John¹)
• Johanna³ (Whitney) Cady (Richard², John¹)
• Richard³ Whitney (Richard², John¹)
• Ebenezer³ Whitney (Richard², John¹)
• Thomas³ Whitney (Thomas², John¹)
• Eleazer³ Whitney (Thomas², John¹)
• Isaiah³ Whitney (Thomas², John¹)
• Lydia³ (Whitney) Adams (Jonathan², John¹)
• Jonathan³ Whitney (Jonathan², John¹)
• Anna³ (Whitney) Fisher (Jonathan², John¹)
• John³ Whitney (Jonathan², John¹)
• Josiah³ Whitney (Jonathan², John¹)
• Joseph³ Whitney (Jonathan², John¹)
• Benjamin³ Whitney (Jonathan², John¹)
• Joshua³ Whitney (Joshua², John¹)
• Hannah³ (Whitney) Woods (Joshua², John¹)
• Abigail³ (Whitney) Hutchins (Joshua², John¹)
• Mary³ (Whitney) Pierce (Joshua², John¹)
• William³ Whitney (Joshua², John¹)
• Cornelius³ Whitney (Joshua², John¹)
• David³ Whitney (Joshua², John¹)
• Eleanor³ (Whitney) Shepard (Joshua², John¹)
• Sarah³ (Whitney) Jewell (Joshua², John¹)
• Martha³ (Whitney) Williams (Joshua², John¹)
• Elizabeth³ (Whitney) Farnsworth (Joshua², John¹)
• Jane³ (Whitney) Morse (Benjamin², John¹)
• Eleanor³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• John³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• Nathaniel³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• Jonathan³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• Josiah³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• Benjamin³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• Joshua³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• Mark³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• Isaac³ Whitney (Benjamin², John¹)
• Huldah³ (Whitney) Morse (Benjamin², John¹)

• My line

• Gershom⁴ Whitney
• Sarah⁵ (Whitney) Flagg
• Hannah⁴ (Whitney) Billing

• U.S.S. Constitution

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.