Talk:The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding

Removed Deletion
I removed the proposed deletion template because the software is non-trivial, is carefully and well written, appears to be very well suited to use in its domain, and has a devoted, if small, user community, over six years of history, and over 24 instances of press coverage.

If Wikipedia has room for articles on individual episodes of television comedy shows, surely it has room for articles on high quality computer programs. Deleting articles such as this is simply mean-spirited. Thank you. Jerryobject (talk) 19:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Deletion not Warranted
I do not (yet) use this software and have no business affiliation or acquaintance with its author. I want to point out that the activity known as family history research or genealogical research is an important profession, hobby and avocation that attracts the interest of millions. The pursuit of ones "roots" has been dramatically impacted by the rise of the World Wide Web. This software, which I will refer to as TNG, seems to represent a major advance in this category due to its ability to generate pages of genealogical information on the fly through access to an underlying database. It shares this database-centered approach with many modern web frameworks and content management systems, but is specifically adapted to genealogical projects of modest size - generally personal or family projects. This makes it significant, setting it apart from the proprietary, custom-developed software used to develop giant family history sites like Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org while advancing personal family history web pages well beyond HTML static page technology. The apparent broad adoption of the platform seems to prove this, and the improved quality and utility of sites made using TNG is apparent. An advanced Google search on the words "powered," "Darrin," "Lythgoe" and "2001" and the exact phrase "the next generation of genealogy sitebuilding" while excluding "download" and "Ancestry.com" yields 5,600,000 results. Many of these are websites built using this software. I think this is a useful indicator of the impact this software has had. There is also a unique social-networking aspect of this software. This software may be obscure to certain Wikipedia editors, but it is not unimportant to genealogists, historians and many, many family history hobbyists. If Wikipedia can have pages for dozens of web application frameworks and content management systems, it can have a page for TNG. Thomasbhiggins (talk) 03:06, 13 June 2011 (UTC)