Help:Properties for persons (showfacts)

See also: Familypedia:Familypedia data dictionary and conventions

Introduction

Familypedia's standard way of setting and viewing person properties uses the showfacts suite of templates, the main ones being {{showfacts person}} and {{showfacts children}}. While it is possible to set other Semantic properties directly or via other templates, this page only describes those created by the showfacts suite of templates.

Repetition

For brevity, repeating data for events was omitted. See properties beginning at "birth_street". All these properties also exist for other events: baptism, death, remains, wedding1, wedding2…., journey1, journey2…, residence1, residence2 and so on. Simply substitute the event name in place of "birth". For example, the death property corresponding to Property:birth_locality would be Property:death_locality.

Some unique properties

Some events have unique properties and follow this standard list.

Timespan events

Some events have beginning and end dates and times. These so called timespan events have properties for ending time and ending place. An example is listed for Residence. (Note that a number of event types have not been fully developed by early 2018.)

General guidelines

• A fast way to ignore this page and learn by example is to create an article with a form, and then mimic what it does.
• Unless noted otherwise, parameters do not use wikitext. This means that names of people (father, siblings, spouse and so on) or image files do not use square brackets. Wikitext is, however, encouraged in notation (mainly Notes and Sources) parameters.
• Parameter names: strictly observe capitalization and underscores. For example:, the template will recognize both "Death_year" and "death year" as equivalent to "death_year". However, at the time of this writing, the forms appear to have problems recognizing them as identical and so the value will be dropped if a subsequent contributor uses a form.
• All names - person, events, and places - should conform to guidelines for Familypedia:Page names.
  • Wikipedia standardized naming. All place and event names Must use name of article used by the English Wikipedia if one exists. (Non-English articles- refer to the correct wp for the page language)
• All fields that allow multiple values (see column with m's in it) are delimited by plus signs since commas are common in page names and semicolons have other specialized uses. (This means that semicolons and plus signs are on the list of characters banned from page names.)
  • Exception: Properties of type "Notation" (see column below): These Sources and Notations fields allow use of semicolons in free text, so all of these fields are delimited by <new note>
• Full Date properties (birth_date, death_date and so on) do not have a direct parameter equivalent. Instead, these are composed by their components. If the date is unknown, it is given the value 9999, which is masked from display in showfacts templates.
• Parameters generally do not include namespace prefixes when referring to pages. (Examples::Contributors, or Image). Note that the property will have the namespace automatically included, but the parameter has it stripped.

Table of examples

Property	Type	s/m	Notes
sex	general		Must be set. Values: M, F. Defaults to M without giving warning.
father	general
mother	general
joined_with	general	m	Wife, Husband, or other companion or partner in a relationship. Second and third individuals listed should correspond to the children and wedding family group numbers. E.g., the wedding to the first person in the list would be wedding-g1. Use "unknown" or, preferably, a blank as a place keeper if person unknown. This field Generates joined_with-g1… etc.
description	general		Seldom used. Was much used for info pages. Could be reinstated as an option.
events	general	m
titles	general	m
siblings	general	m	Notational use only, useful when beginning research on a subject. In a mature article, this field should be deleted when both parents have their own articles and the sibling lists may therefore be automatically derived. See {{siblings}}.
honors	general	m	Should correspond to article names describing the honors so that {{showfacts honors}} may display the honor in a graphic infobox.
contributors	general	m	Do not prefix with User: Should list any contributor who has made any level of changes to the article. Does not connote ownership. See FP:OWN.
General notes and reference info
notes	notation	m	To allow use of semicolons in free text, new notes are delimited by <new note>
sources	notation	m	As for notes. see Category:Specific-source templates et al. Separation with list syntax or carriage returns will display fairly wel but has the disadvantage that the sources will merge.
sources_primary	notation	m
sources_secondary	notation	m
tags	notation	m	allows keyword searching and related features. Full text search is available from Wikia's search box but is unreliable.
familysearch_afn	notation	m	Ancestral File Number (usually) unique identifiers used by LDS FamilySearch systems. There is a proposal to add several other databases to this system.
Media
image	media	m	Do not use File: or the old Image: prefix.
signature	media	m	Do not use File: prefix.
pictures	media	m	Do not use File: prefix.
uploaded_documents	media	m	Do not use File: prefix.
other files	media	m	Do not use File: prefix.
Family group
ifmarried-g1	family		true if married. If true, then {{showfacts biography}} displays the fact(s).
joined_with-g1	family		derived. See joined_with
children-g1	family	m	set by Template:showfacts children
Events: birth, baptism, remains, wedding1*…., journey1*…, residence1*… (* star= has own form)
Place
birth_street	event	m	Later shown as "Street address".
birth_locality	event		Anything from a hamlet to a conurbation as long as it is not a "county" as noted below
birth_county	event		Should be 2nd-level division of nation, not always called "county"
birth_nation-subdiv1	event		Should be 1st-level division of nation, occasionally called "county" (e.g. in Liberia and Lithuania); examples are Northern Ireland, Washington (state), Australian Capital Territory.
birth_nation	event		Current names for this and the above three or four, as on Wikipedia.
birth_places-other	event	m	Examples: building, cemetery, sea, or former name of place such as Prussia or Sussex
birth_address	event	m
birth_coord	event
Time
birth_date	event		Not a parameter. The template generates date/time from components below. Value 9999= unknown date.
birth_year	event		Numeric only. No BC. See If-BCE
birth_month	event		Numeric only. Values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 (or 01, 02, etc)
birth_day	event
birth_hour	event		Hour/Minutes assume time local to the event on the day of the event. Rarely used.
birth_minute	event		Extremely rarely used.
birth_if-bce	event		true if Before Common Era (B.C.) If this parameter has any value (e.g. "False"!), the condition is true.
birth_date-approx	event
birth_calendar	event		If not set, all dates assume the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
Notes and reference info (similar to "General")
birth_notes	event	m
birth_sources	event	m
birth_sources_primary	event	m
birth_sources_secondary	event	m
birth_tags	event	m
birth_event	event
birth_involved_people	event	m
birth_pictures	event	m
birth_documents	event	m
birth_other_files	event	m
Event specific values. The following only exist for particular events
death_causes	event
"Timespan" events requiring end time and space add "_end" to certain properties. Events: ResidenceN, JourneyN, MilitaryN,
residence1_street_end	event	m
residence1_locality_end	event
residence1_county_end	event
residence1_nation-subdiv1_end	event
residence1_nation_end	event
residence1_places-other_end	event	m
residence1_address_end	event	m
residence1_coord_end	event
Time
residence1_date_end	event		Derived date/time from components below. Value 9999= unknown date
residence1_year_end	event		Meaning "end year", not "year-end", of course.
residence1_month_end	event
residence1_day_end	event
residence1_hour_end	event
residence1_minute_end	event
residence1_if-bce_end	event
residence1_date-approx_end	event

Note that a few of the above have been varied since User:Phlox wrote the bulk of this page.