webtrees module german-chancellors-presidents

This webtrees module provides historical facts (in German language): Chancellors and Presidents of Germany (since 1949)

Usage

The structure of historic events provided by this module is oriented on GEDCOM events (EVEN).

•  1 EVEN <name> (<party>)
  

•  2 TYPE <Chancellor|President> of Germany
  

•  2 DATE <date period>
  

•  2 NOTE [wikipedia de](<link>)
  

For wikipedia links in the notes markdown formatting is used; this should be enabled for your tree. See Control panel/Manage family trees/Preferences and then scroll down to "Text" and mark the option "markdown". If markdown is disabled the links are still working, but the formatting isn't so nice.

Select as user "Historic events" at the "Facts and events" tab.

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Requirements

This module requires webtrees version 2.0 or later. This module has the same requirements as webtrees#system-requirements.

This module was tested with webtrees 2.1.15 version and all available themes and all other custom modules.

Installation

This section documents installation instructions for this module.

1. Download the latest release
2. Unzip the package into your webtrees/modules_v4 directory of your web server
3. Rename the folder to german-chancellors-presidents

Upgrade

To update simply replace the german-chancellors-presidents files with the new ones from the latest release.

Translation

At the moment only the event types (chancellor, president) and meta data can be translated, no other data.

You can use a local editor, like Poedit or Notepad++, to make the translations and send them back to me. You can do this via a pull request (if you know how) or by e-mail.

Discussion on translating can be done by creating an issue.

Updated translations will be included in the next release of this module.

There are now, beside English, and German, no other translations available.

Support

Issues: for any ideas you have, or when finding a bug you can raise an issue.

Forum: general webtrees support can be found at the webtrees forum.

Adding new data, Programming and Testing

If you'd like to contribute to this module, great! You can contribute by

• Contributing historical facts - those are defined as a GEDCOM record; make you familiar with the structure of existing data (see module.php); change existing or add new data; test it; create an issue, then you can link your pull request.
• Contributing code - check out the issues for things that need attention. If you have changes you want to make not listed in an issue, please create one, then you can link your pull request.
• Testing - it's all manual currently, please create an issue for any bugs you find.

License

• Copyright (C) 2023 Hermann Hartenthaler
• Derived from webtrees - Copyright 2023 webtrees development team.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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