Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-216.31.211.11-20131119193304/@comment-366087-20131120080712

Okay. Just from that alone, how *I* would go about it would be first, make a page as you'd like to see it complete, even if only with mock info. Export it to HTML. Examine the file and see if you can edit a second, Import the new file, see if it works. There's your layout. Do the same with a *few* pages and examine them. Then the same for an image file (Import/Export is restricted by Namespaces), then a *few* image files. That will help you learn the feasibility of making an HTML file loaded with what you want and Importing batches of pages at once. I've not done any of this myself, this is just from what I know from what little Im-/Exporting I've done.

Then, I'd start uploading the document images. Although you may want to look at Custom namespaces and see if a couple would help your over all project instead of leaving the documents in the File namespace. If so, Special:Contact to request the new namespaces.

Either way, I'd use Use Categories to tag them with relevance. Such as Region or Family name as the genealogies take shape. A set of Categories I'd make would be "Assigned" (or Accepted) when an editor takes each on, the Cats for progress and status levels.

If there are documents which have a relevance to each other, either initially or as each progress, I'd merge the pages, as a page can have more than one image and sections. Also read up on Subpages. And if there are relevant Wikipedia articles and other websites, I'd not shy away from linking to them. Your project is large enough without the need to duplicate the efforts of other sources.

I understand what you're facing, and it can seem daunting. I, myself recently had to conceive and plan out a structure for a fanon-themed wiki for a franchise's fanfics where there are as many different versions of the canon characters as there are writers and artists doing stories and artwork about them. Meaning how to address all the incarnations and permutations. The best way to do that is to plan it out as best you can before hand. And accept there will be a learning curve and period of growing pains as you get rolling.

Good luck.