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JLiki 8: Linking Images
As explained in JLiki 6, there are two ways of adding content to your wiki; directly through tiddlers or through linking files. Sometimes you’ll want to add a photo to a tiddler. And sometimes you’ll...
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JLiki 9: Linking Multimedia Files
In JLiki 8, I showed how to link images to your wiki. You can link to any type of document or multimedia file: HTML, PDF, PPS, DOC, audio, video, whatever you have. If you have the software to create...
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JLiki 10: TiddlyWiki Plugins
If you’ve read the previous JLiki posts you have everything you need to build your genealogy wiki. But in WikiWorld there’s always more. Some of it’s easy and some of it’s way-out-there. Sometimes it’s...
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The subject of genealogy organization never ends. Since I’m in another tidying up phase I decided to have another look at the old survey. One of the outstanding comments there is in answer to the...
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JLiki Postscript
After more than a month harping on about JLiki I feel like I must have been talking in a vacuum. I know some of you read through from beginning to end but it’s so quiet out there. (I expected a...
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Google Maps API
Fellow JLikians, makers of genealogy wikis, how about moveable maps? Google Maps API is here to show you how. And there are lots of map styles. Any of them can be embedded in html pages. First you’ll...
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Google My Maps
As we know, telling stories of our ancestors is much enhanced by the use of photographs. Oftentimes a map can make a story clear in a way that words cannot. My Maps at Google will allow you to make...
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TiddlyWiki Crashes Firefox
Are any Firefox users having a problem getting to JLiki? It’s crashing my browser. I can’t even get onto the main TiddlyWiki site. It looks like a war on Tiddlies, but it could be just my computer. Can...
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JLiki: Storytelling With Wikis
Since alternate methods of publishing are a source of consternation at the Legacy Mailing List again … And since I’m on a bender with MRINs again … And since I’ve been working on my personal version of...
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My Criminal Ancestors
Over at Scanfest today, the conversation turned to telling tales of our less-than-stellar ancestors. Yes, we all have some. I actually only have one criminal ancestor that I know of. Everyone else is...
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