Dear Michael, thanks again for your question and request. I hope that more members of this list will share their thoughts about this.
I guess no one on the list were so ready for this kind of question, we have sort of moved slowly towards a moment when we think we are so many that we can start to look into next step, so far we were just discussing and discussing.

Your question is interesting relevant, and should have had a much better feedback, than those weeks without even an answer. 

Lets bring your request a further step, so we can soon move it to the meta pages, and discuss openly.

I have to admit, I was not totally sure about your question, and maybe this goes for others, would you mind tell us more about your plans with this and anything more you want to share. It sounds like a tool, connected to Wikidata, which already sounds very good for a Wikimedia genealogy tool. you may actually turn up with your request in the perfect moment, where technical issues needs to be discussed, we were simply not there, but I guess that the group members will just consider each and every step towards the vision of a wikimedia genealogy website as positive, why your question may actually push us all into next step..

Please fill us in a bit more, and keep in mind, that most users on the list are not programmers, why technical details, may be needed to be presented in an easy way to understand.

I will be excited to get some input from you all on this list, as well as weather we need to wait more, or should go to next step, and start to creat the user group, in order to contact the wikimedia for further questions to move on with the project.

Dan Koehl



2017-05-24 16:58 GMT+02:00 Michael Maggs <Michael@maggs.name>:
There has been quite bit of discussion over the years about how the Wikimedia movement could engage with those who have research interests in family history or genealogy, and a centralised discussion page [1] has been set up on Meta.

I am posting to ask whether there would be Wikimedian developers who would be interested in joining an open source project to create a free platform independent application called History Research Environment [2] (‘HRE’) for the serious genealogist or historical researcher.  Considerable effort has been put into high-level planning over several years, and we are now ready to start writing code.

While the proposed software is not currently an official Wikimedia project, if there is enough interest we are open to it becoming integrated or affiliated in some way. The plan is, in any event, that the software should be interoperable with Wikidata to allow (subject to the agreement of the Wikidata community) the exchange of a variety of structured data including verified and fully sourced family trees.

I'd be happy to answer queries.

Michael Maggs


[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project

[2] https://historyresearchenvironment.org

(please excuse cross-posting for greater visibility, as the [wikimedia-genealogy] mailing list still has very few subscribers)

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