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Re:Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository by cpeterso on Monday April 29, 2013 @07:10PM (#5629460)
I'm surprised no one (AFAICT) has attempted a family tree of all humans. There is an obvious demand for this information because many commercial services exist. Users are paying to upload their personal genealogical data to proprietary for-profit silos. Yet this data would be much more productive in an open system with user data from all services.

You could seed the database with famous people's family trees from Wikidata. The Mormon church also has lots of genealogy data that (perhaps :) they might share for not-for-profit use.

The biggest challenge would be preventing trolls and spammers from uploading false data. I've sketched out some rough ideas where family links can be "thumbs up'd" bidirectionally by people on both sides of the connection, but not necessarily the immediate people.

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Re:Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository by samegreatsleeve on Monday April 29, 2013 @07:30PM (#5629539)
The genealogists are always happy to share their data. It's part of the culture.

There's no open source genealogy programmers because the young nerds that do open source dont care about genealogy.

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Re:Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository by maxerickson on Monday April 29, 2013 @11:33PM (#5630276)
http://gramps-project.org/

http://pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/en/

There are others. I guess there aren't many, but there are some.

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Re:Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository by eksith on Monday April 29, 2013 @08:16PM (#5629703)
I care about genealogy! Of course, it's debatable if I'm considered "young" since I'm 30. I think maybe there would be privacy issues and personality rights to photographs that would get in the way of such a big family tree.

Not to mention a security issue as well since most financial institutions ask for your mother's maiden name as a security question.

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