Type of site Genealogy Database Headquarters Miami, Florida Website familypedia.wikia.com | Available in Multilingual Owner Wikia | |
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Created by IFaqeer (founder) and over 1,900 other registered contributors and many unregistered contributors | ||
Familypedia is a free-to-use public wiki on family history and genealogy. It is a collaborative effort by amateur genealogists and family historians, with over 61,000 unique people having their own pages among over 215,000 articles. For over 33,000 of those individuals, there is a corresponding subpage displaying an ancestry chart, automatically updated, and for most there is a similarly updated descendant table. Over 7,000 pages tabulate, for specific localities or larger areas such as counties, individuals who had life events such as birth or marriage at the locality. There are over 320,000 other pages, including over 13,000 surname categories. It is the largest English-language semantic wiki concentrating on genealogy, but it is not restricted to English.
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Hosting and licensing
Familypedia is hosted by Wikia, a wiki farm. Contributions are covered by the CC-BY-SA license.
Software
The software used includes Semantic MediaWiki, which enables the connection of people to events, places, and other people, as well as Semantic Forms, for ease of data entry, and Semantic Drilldown to let users construct their own data queries.
Reception
Ed West, writing in the British newspaper The Telegraph, described the site as a "brilliant idea", with the potential to become "enormously important" if it reached the critical mass required. In November 2010, popular genealogy blogger Dick Eastman gave Familypedia a largely favorable 17-paragraph review.