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Help:Fields
Notes on templates: in Mediawiki parlance, templates are like computer programs, and rather inscrutable ones at that. One uses a so-called template by referencing it with two curly brackets followed by its name, for example {{Person. This is followed by a list of fields, each of which is prefixed by a "|" and assigned a value, for example |name=Jane Smith. The Template expansion is ended by a pair of closing curly brackets. There are example below; if you should ever be faced with a sea of curly, round, and square brackets, you have probably blundered into an actual Template (Mediawiki program) and you should immediately cancel or go "back".
Your best bet with any of these is to look at an existing page that uses the fields of the template in question. New pages in the (default) name space will automatically include a blank instance of the fields defined by the Person template.
Web Pages are particularly complicated, and it is best to copy-and-paste from an existing page. Very large web pages cause the server to run out of memory, and a different technique is used there. Please see Web:NEM-Notebook-Twenty_Three for an example of the use of the Web Page header, center, and footer templates; these are the Template:WebPage simply broken into 3 separate pieces and use the same fields.
See Help:Dates for a list of all acceptable date formats.
[edit] Fields in the Person template | ||
[edit] Fields | ||
| private= | to make the page private, add your username here (e.g., private=frank) | |
| prefix= | Mr., Ms., Mrs., Miss, Mme., Lady, Sir, Gen. Prof., Dr., etc... | |
| gender= | M or F or m or f or male , etc. used by Help:Unknown Parents, so this should be set | |
| caption= | Text to put under the person's picture. | |
| forename= | You must supply a first name here. | |
| middlenames= | Optional, should be part of the page name if available | |
| lastname= | Married name should go here. Use the name which is most relevant, or for which the person is most likely to be searched. | |
| nickname= | This can be a full name - use this as an additional search term. It will be rendered inside () as part of the page title. | |
| suffix= | I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X used to disambiguate generations with identical names | |
| father= | Please try to avoid trailing spaces. This will be shown in red if the father doesn't exist, blue if he does. | |
| father_ext= | The http address (URL) of an external family tree site. See Help:External Pages | |
| mother= | Use Maiden name here. Same colors apply as to the father. | |
| mother_ext= | The http address of an external family tree site. See Help:External Pages | |
| born=? | Preferred format is yyyy-mm-dd but "19 Feb 1657/8" or "circa 1732" or "Q Jun 1809" are all OK (no quotes required). Please don't enter an approximate date here if the baptism date is known exactly. Please remove the "?" if nothing is known about the birth, but the baptism information is available. | |
| bapt= | Same format as above. Both born and bapt will be included in the chronology if they are real dates (as apposed to "?"). | |
| birth_country= | Should be a real country | |
| birth_city= | The birth city + country will be hyperlinked to their Wikipedia pages. The entry is split at commas, and each result is made into a separate link. | |
| died=? | If this is blank, no birth or death information will be rendered at all. If unknown, leave as "?", otherwise use the same format as born. | |
| died_country= | Must be a real country. The death and birth locations will also be hyperlinked to Wikipedia | |
| died_city= | E.g., London, parsed for commas just like birth_city. | |
| interred_date= | This is intended as an alternative to the date of death when it is known exactly but the date of death isn't. | |
| interred_country= | Also hyperlinked, e.g., England | |
| interred_city= | Not sure if the city should also be in the cemetery name. These fields are also parsed for commas. | |
| interred_cemetery= | Fill this in if buried -or- | |
| interred_crematorium= | fill this in if cremated | |
| education= | Free form field. You can reference Wikipedia by using this syntax: [[wp:New York University|New York University]] to get New York University, for example. | |
| website= | Just put in the URL, for example, |website=http://www.apogeect.com Apogeect will render as Website: Apogeect. If the web site is internal, the syntax is a bit more complicated. For example |website=[Web:CS_Count_Safroni{{!}}Count Safroni] will be rendered as Website: Count Safroni | |
| email= | Just enter your email address, for example f.middleton@apogeect.com will render as f.middleton@apogeect.com | |
| location= | This field is for where the person lived.. Parsed for commas. A putative GEDCOM generator would automatically insert the quotes (i.e., "Country" "City") so don't use them! | |
| jobs= | This field is for what the person did.. Free form field like |education. | |
| work= | This field is for where the person worked. See above for Gedcom notes. Parsed for commas. | |
[edit] Example | ||
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See any page about a person, for example, George Agar Hansard, which shows several of these templates in use | ||
[edit] Fields in the Marriage template | ||
[edit] Fields | ||
| spouse= | Must be Maiden name. Normally left blank for wives - the software will find their spouse and fill in the fields automatically. Will be red if the spouse's page is not yet defined, blue if the spouse page exists. | |
| country= | E.g., England | |
| city= | E.g., London. Will be parsed for commas. | |
| mdate= | Preferred format is yyyy-mm-dd but "19 Feb 1657/8" or "circa 1732" or "Jun Q 1809" are all OK. See Help:Dates for a complete list of the date formats that have been tested. | |
The marriage template should be left empty for spouses - the software will find a corresponding marriage entry and fill it in automatically.
[edit] Example
{{Marriages}}
[edit] Fields in the Bio Template
[edit] Fields
| title= | Title (defaults to Biography), set to |title=None for no title; |title=Genealogy is a good choice... |
| source= | To whom should the biography be ascribed. Should be a valid internal Wiki person page |
| ext_source= | External source reference. Must start with http:// |
| background= | any valid HTML color such as aliceblue, defaults to light grey |
| body= | text follows this |
[edit] Example
{{Bio|title=Introduction|source=Michael Middleton|background=aliceblue|body=
{{Dropcap|I}}ntroductory text....
....
}}
[edit] Fields in the Web Pages Template
[edit] Fields
| fc= | The first character of the article (will be drop capped) |
| column-x= | The text of the relevant column goes after this |
| break=y | Use this to indicate that the first para of the new column should not be indented. Useful when the column break occurs in the middle of a paragraph. |
| prefix= | The first part of the name of this, preceding, and following pages |
| suffix= | The last part of the name of this page. There will be a dash inserted between the prefix and suffix, for example, Web:NEM-Notebook-Two |
| singular= | Special for things like diary vs. dairies - see example below |
| prev= | The last part of the name of the preceding page |
| this= | The last part of the name of the current page |
| next= | The last part of the name of the following page |
| links= | where what follows links= can be any valid wiki text |
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suffix= | The key used to index the Works by list of articles - it should be something like Novels, Poems, or Biographies. In this example it will make a category called Works by George Fisherman and this particular work would be listed under Diaries |
| bgcolor= | Background color, like aliceblue. |
| width= | Width of all columns including 5em's worth of padding and a 5em left margin |
[edit] Example
This example shows the use of a dropcap and a break in the middle of a paragraph
{{WebPage
|title=Fishing Diary|subtitle=Fishing - Day Two|author=George Fisherman|prefix=Web:NEM-|suffix=Diaries
|singular=Diary|prev=1|this=2|next=3|fc=W|column-1=e went fishing
...
on the lake|break=y|column-2=on a wet day
...
}}