Board Thread:Community Engagement/@comment-27358554-20170523184534/@comment-5175866-20170523224907

The idea sounds/would be nice but I am going to give my standard opinion of it. I would much rather have great technology or a tool that could do this in the best way possible at the start- rather than do it in that format.

I personally think it would be a bit redundant to have a family tree of that format on every page (unless there was an interactive version that lets you pick one area and expand). It wouldn't work very well for SEO or mobile view (portability) either. Its not an aspect I wish to omit from the wiki, its just not one we have the proper technology or resources to convey in a good way. I personally think that genealogies are best for the list page for now. A person's infobox and early life sections (and even legacy or sections about them having children) should adequately cover the connected and meaningful genealogical information to them. Going 4 generations down is usually irrelevant in regards to this specific person that is subject of the article. If there was someone several generations away that has a lot of importance (most commonly Jesus and/or David) it would be noted in the Legacy section.

For you personally Christian my concern is putting genealogies on articles would be a high priority. I also would want to apply it to the efforts of the wiki broadly. I understand the matter that focusing on simple content writing doesn't produce the fruit (from our own labor and interests of others) that we would like. Rest assured SouthWriter and I working on a few ideas behind the scenes that may address this. This is a difficult position of ministry for me personally in that I am not able to put the work and resources into this that I would like. Nevertheless we must be patient and trust that somehow God will provide and bless this ministry; in the way he sees- it may not be the way we expect at all.