WRG:Website Conversion Project

Open Issues

• Create appropriate help topics - IN PROGRESS.

Content Conversion Status

All content from the old website has been converted except the following:

Census Record Content pages - IN PROGRESS

Phoenix Book - IN PROGRESS

Databases

Four Letters of Eli Whitney - COMPLETE

U.S.S. Constitution

• Detailed Conversion List

Tim's Projects

• Help files - finish importing - COMPLETE

• Project:User preferences help - COMPLETE
• Project:Policy - COMPLETE
• WRG:Protected page guidelines - COMPLETE
• Help:Preferences - COMPLETE

• Pierce Family Group Project - mostly complete
• Phoenix Project - finish template sample, write code to convert, upload all pages
• Census Records

• Index pages - IN PROGRESS
• 1790 - 1870 - COMPLETE
• 1880
• Miscellaneous:

• Archive:1818 Tax List, Alabama - COMPLETE
• Archive:1849 Census Index, Minnesota - COMPLETE
• Archive:1845 Census Index, New York

• 1890-1930 - COMPLETE

Robert's Projects

• Add locality categories to all of Andaleen's pages.

• Source all fourth- and fifth-generation pages from John¹.

• Phoenix Import

• Family:Whitney, John (b1645-b1720) (Henry¹)
• Third generation families from John² (Henry¹)
• Fourth generation families from Henry¹
• Fifth generation families from Henry¹

• Import U.S.S. Constitution page
• Import Archive:Eli Whitney Letters

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 ID="Plaintext" 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.
• Decide on appropriate usage of category pages.
• Create style guidelines.
• Transfer from old web site:

• City Directories - DONE
• Probate Records - DONE
• Newspapers - DONE
• Cemeteries - DONE
• Phoenix Errata - DONE
• Source and clean up early Family pages - DONE
• Combined Index to MA VRs - DONE
• Indexes to Pierce - DONE
• Reunion photos - DONE

• Finish John¹ Whitney descendants Family Group Records through fifth generation - DONE
• Search - create an advanced search page - COMPLETE
• 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