Best Practices

I like these ideas, Ashley.

Looking good. Thank you.

I think perhaps we should aim for a more uniform photo size. I think Eldon's is an optimal example. If they're too big, they look grainy (as with majestic Lucia) or glaring (as with Marvin).

I've never added a photo to a project, so I don't know if the relative size is changeable.

If you like, I'll gladly resize things on my computer.

I agree - I was also wondering about that.
I'll try 'medium' - but that usually turns them minute.

As to the different sizing - it depend on the size of the photo they themselves upload for their profile pic. (I'm using the 'snipping' tool.) Delighted to have somebody else regulalise them, though.

Please all know that I do truly mean 'team project' here. I'm expecting help, and I'm not going to be prissy about those of you jumping in in areas of your own skills. Both Ashley's and your suggestions have been excellent. This is a joint Curator project.:-)

One question - should we ordered first to last or opposite (in terms of when did they leave us)?

I think it would be better if it was formatted differently (smaller photos) so we fit more on the page

I will add Lynette when I get a better photo -on photos from the last 2 years she does not look like herself

Jadra, thanks for the input. I've made the photos smaller. It looks better, I agree

It would be much appreciated on Lynette's behalf.

Private User I stole your beautiful breaker marker from Judi's Memorial Project. I've always envied your fantastic ability to actually position images where you want them to go

I also cut and paste your and [[Daan Botes Daan Botes] Daan's] lovely tributes to her (I hope you don't mind. Please delete or change as you prefer.)

One question - should we ordered first to last or opposite (in terms of when did they leave us)?

Jadra, I never thought of another chronology. I don't mind. What does everone else think?

No problem Sharon - you can specify actual size of the photo or position on the page - there is a lot of help available - https://www.geni.com/projects/Geni-Wikitext-Unicode-and-Images/8404

Chronologically by death date. It’s looking really good. Thank you so much for this effort.

If someone can make John Pelkey’s image a little smaller, would you be so kind? I don’t seem to have the pipe symbol to figure it out by pixels.

I'm coming to see why Jadra might have suggested we swap chronology from mst recent death to least recent death - if the list gets very long.
I'm not sure, though. Thoughts?

Yes, that is why I have asked. Eventually this list will grow, if the last one is somewhere down the list, people might not see it.

I checked status of another Curator - have not been online for a very long time. I have sent few messages to people I know worked with him.

Private User will you or somebody else who worked closely with Terry do an entry for her?

Sharon Doubell I will work on something over the next few days.

:-) She was hugely significant to our tree :-)

I will write one for Lynette but dont feel like doing it right now

Yes, Jadra - I understand that completely.

I will swap them all around - from most recently deceased at the top, if noone else gets to it before I have the energy. (Would be delighted if someone else did ;-) )

I did it.

I guess I'm in the minority that thought it made a lot more sense to go in chronological order, but I'm not deeply invested. To me, doing it in reverse chronological order inadvertently makes it seem like the "oldest" deaths are more forgotten or less important at this point, whereas chronological order just seems like a neutral statement of fact. But again, not invested.

I definitely appreciate the conversation going on here, and I don't think it should stop, but I just want to go back to my original intent for this thread for a moment...does anyone else have thoughts on best practices for the MPs themselves? Or no?

I was thinking of writing up a quick little document with some bulletpoints on what to do/not to do with our colleagues' profiles after their deaths, but I don't want it to be just my opinions.

Should anything much be done with their profile though? Wouldn’t that be up to family? Making MP and now having the project seems good to me. Linking obituaries. Would we need anything else?

Ashley, I also liked to see Marve, Eldon and Judi up front and be reminded of them, but then I thought about that from the pov of Terry and Lynette: "inadvertently makes it seem like the [more recent] deaths are ..less important at this point". People don't just keep scrolling on and on, so the list is getting long enough that more recent deaths are quite likely to be never even seen at all, inadvertently like 'now there are so many, just join the back of the queue."

Sharon: It's true, we honestly can't win. :/ I wonder if we can think creatively and come up with some kind of display where they're all listed together in a condensed view at the top, and then individually.

Erica: If you look at Eldon's, what Dan and I did was change the tenses a bit, so instead of "I work on..." it's "Eldon worked on" -- things like that. Or instead of "I accept all requests to collaborate", which feels a little odd to leave in, it's now prefaced with "He explained his Geni philosophy this way: 'I accept all requests to collaborate and..."

For so many of our curators, their families aren't really engaged on Geni. But I agree that they should be involved as relevant.

I love Eldon’s edits, so just take my comment as a rule of thumb.

If arranging profiles with thumbnails in a grid is beyond us technically, how about an alphabetized by first name list?

If arranging profiles with thumbnails in a grid is beyond us technically

Why? It's always possible to use a html table for this

Because project pages don't support HTML.

They only support SOME of the standard wiki formatting.