Talk:WeRelate

Speedy Delete

Please do not delete Werelate.org article. WeRelate is a volunteer community of genealogists working for reliability and standardization in genealogy. With an active community of over 24,000 registered users and more than 2 million person wiki pages, WeRelate is the largest genealogy wiki in the world. WeRelate also sports the largest documented, open content, place wiki and source wiki available.

Numerous volunteers are currently engaged several projects to standardize documentation and assist in research. We also have orchestrated projects to standardize places, names, ethnic genealogy and notable people.

Wikipedia has articles for Rodovid and Familypedia which are a fraction of our size. Dick Eastman, a well known genealogy blogger, just evaluated genealogy wikis and didn't mention Rodovid or Familpedia. We have had roughly 2000 edits in the last 24 hour period which is six times the traffic on Familypedia.

WeRelate is free and open content. We are partnered by the Allen County Public Library (second largest genealogy library in the US)and have been listed in the top 101 genealogy websites by Family Tree Magazine for the last five years.

WeRelate would welcome some sort of formalized relationship with Wikipedia as suggested by SJ. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SolveigQuass (talk • contribs) 17:07, 12 April 2011 (UTC)

Number of Users

• What is preventing "werelate.org" from gaining 'mass' adoption? Answer by Dallan Quass, Adding some clarifications/answers to Matt's response (edit to respond to number of contributing users): User Zzz... accounts are created when a user requests to drop their account. Since the mediawiki software does not allow for accounts to be deleted entirely, the account is renamed to Zzz... Of the roughly 30K registered users, roughly 300 (1%) have requested to drop their account. Roughly 7500 (25%) of the 30,000 registered users have contributed at least one edit., Jan 2, 2012, Quora

WikiTree

The site WikiTree seems very similar. Should a "See Also" section be added (to both pages) cross referncing these entries? Thanks --Lbeaumont (talk) 03:39, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

No. There are lots of sites like this, and Wikipedia has categories for a reason. WeRelate and WikiTree do not directly relate to each other as topics, they just happen to be in the same market, like Microsoft and Apple, or the National Rifle Association and Second Amendment Foundation.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  13:26, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Requested move 19 June 2020

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Consensus to move page. (non-admin closure) — YoungForever^(talk) 18:45, 26 June 2020 (UTC)

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Werelate.org → WeRelate – Per WP:CONCISE and WP:COMMONNAME, and (camelcase-wise) to be more WP:CONSISTENT with other similar articles, including in the same niche market (e.g. WikiTree, wikitree.com) and more WP:NATURAL and WP:RECOGNIZABLE, in being easier to parse as We+Relate, not Were+Late or We're+Late. After the move, the redir should get {{R from domain name}} in addition to {{R from move}}.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  13:22, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

• Support per nom. Sharper {talk} 18:41, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nom. URLS are exceptionally poor article titles. -- Netoholic @ 10:44, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
• Support per nom. The capital R is particularly essential.--Bob not snob (talk) 07:40, 23 June 2020 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.