The wiki is now up again. The address is the same but it’s hosted on a different server with newer versions of Mediawiki and extensions. This has fixed some minor problems, although there could be some new problems that I haven’t found yet. Before and during the upgrade, I made some changes to the data structures:
- Has URL is now used for units. This is their official website if they have one now (such as London livery companies). For regiments, it’s a link to the BCW Project Regimental Wiki, although that site is temporarily down.
- Units have new properties: Has clothing and Has symbol. These are mainly intended to represent coat colours and flags of military units, but they can also be used for coats of arms, livery etc.
- Removed external identifier properties for people, except Wikidata ID, which is now the spine for all other person identifiers.
- Book editions have been split into separate forms and templates:
- Early edition. Published before 1800. Corresponds exactly to an ESTC number and has no lower levels.
- Modern edition. Published after 1800. Formats are now represented by repeatable subtemplates within the edition page, and never by separate pages.
- Work level for books and articles is now only represented when needed: when a work has more than one version, or a Wikidata ID.
- Printed copies and printed text sections are no longer represented. They could be brought back in future, but for now the main focus of the project will be more on manuscripts than print.
- Property for author death year removed. This can usually be discovered via Wikidata.
- Removed property for gender status, but personnel roles are now classed by gender, which is a more efficient and flexible way of classifying people by gender.
- New property Is role in, used to link a personnel role definition to the types of organization that it can be used with.
- Manuscript texts no longer have properties for date signed or the date an original will was made. These are now covered by Has earliest known date.
- Ancestor command relationship now has more specific subclasses, which make it easier to query for things like all the settlements in a county.