Wikipedia Link Mod

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Wikipedia Link Mod
Summary	Adds links to Wikipedia for place name in the Place Search page
Validation	Latest mod is XHTML compliant.
Mod Updated	30 Oct 2021
Download link	for TNG 13.0 wikipedia_link_v13.0.0.4.zip for TNG 12.0 TNG 11.0.2 wikipedia_link_v11.0.2.3.zip supports renaming extensions folder for TNG 11.0 TNG 10.0 TNG 9.0 wikipedia_link_v9.0.0.2.zip French language files for TNG 8.0 wikipedia_link_v8.1.0.zip for TNG 7.0 wikipedia_link_v1.1.zip
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Author(s)	Luke Weerts Ken Roy enhanced and created config file
Homepage	Wikipedia Link Mod (This page)
Mod Support	TNG Community Forums
Contact Developer	TNG Community Forums
Latest Mod	13.0.0.4 for TNG 13+ 11.0.2.3 for TNG V11.0.2 and up 9.0.0.2 for TNG V9 and up 8.1.0 for TNG V8 1.1 for TNG V7
Min TNG V	7.0.0
Max TNG V	13+
Files modified	placesearch.php
Related Mods	None
Notes

Purpose of the mod

This mod provides links to Wikipedia for the TNG Place name and for each of the individual segments of the place name in the Place Search page.

Note that the Wikipedia links are added to the page you get when you click the Find (spy glass) icon after a place name on the Individual page or on the Place search results page.

See the Mod Visualization below.

Advantages

The Wikipedia link mod allows your users to link to Wikipedia:

• where they may find additional information on the place.

• where they may find the additional information on the segments of the place name.

Developer

The mod was initially provided (for TNG V6) in the Adding Wikipedia links to 'Places' post on the TNG Community Forum by Luke Weerts.

Note that Luke initially replaced the Place Name header with a link to Wikipedia. Ken Roy modified Luke's code to add the Wikipedia link information below the Place Name Header and use cust_text.php to provide the indication of a Wikipedia link.

Requirements

• A working TNG installation. The automated installation release was initially tested at TNG Version 7.1.0. Manual installation previously used on TNG 6 and 7.
• A backup of your TNG placesearch.php file.
• An installed current version of the Mod Manager.

Automated Install

1. Download the appropriate zip file from the summary in the upper right hand corner
2. Extract the zip file in your TNG admin/mod_folder in TNG V8 and mods folder in TNG V8 and V9
3. Follow the normal automated installation for Mod Manager, as shown in the example Mod Manager - Installing Config Files to install the wikipedia_link.cfg.

Note that config file only includes the English language changes, so if you support multiple languages you will need to modify the config file to add the custom text for those other languages. The config file is also slightly different in that the Wikipedia links now all open in a separate window.

Revision History

Version	Date	Contents
13.0.0.4	30 Oct 2021	Updated by Ken Roy to fix fatal error in PHP 8 and added other languages French translation provided by Katryne and Michel Kirsch Dutch translation provided by Rob Severijns German translation by Rainer Italian translation by Richard Falzini
11.0.2.3	18 Sep 2016‎‎	Updated to TNG v11.0.2
11.0.0.2	18 Mar 2016‎	updated to use $extspath variable for extensions folder
10.1.0.1	13 Jan 2015‎	Updated to TNG v10.1

Custom Text Additions

Note that config file only includes the English language changes, except where noted, so if you support multiple languages you will need to modify the config file to add the custom text for those other languages.

English/cust_text.php

This mod adds the following text to your English/cust_text.php in TNG V7, or languages/English/cust_text.php or languages/English-UTF8/cust_text.php in TNG V8 and V9

// Added for Wikipedia Searchplace mod by Luke Weerts 
$text[wikilinks] = "Wikipedia links for";

Other languages

If you are using other languages, you must add these lines to each of your language cust_text.php files with appropriate translations of course, for example

In your French/cust_text.php in TNG V7, or languages/French/cust_text.php or languages/French-UTF8/cust_text.php in TNG V8, you would add

// Added for Wikipedia Searchplace mod by Luke Weerts 
$text[wikilinks] = "Wikipedia liens pour";

You will need to add similar text for your other languages.

Visualization of this mod

Without Mod

Without this mod, the Place Search page does not include any links to Wikipedia as shown in the image on the right.

With Mod Installed

With the ShowTable Mod, the Place Search page does includes two different sets links to Wikipedia as shown in the image on the right: a link that uses all parts of the place location name separate links to each distinct component of the place location name, such as Joigny (city), Yonne (department), Bourgogne (Region), France (country) shown in the image

Sites using this mod

If you download and install this mod, please add your TNG site to the table below

URL	User	Note	Mod-Version	TNG-Version	User-language
Luke Weert's Cousin Folk web site	Luke Weerts	Mod developer	8.1.6	8.1.1	DA, DE, EN, NL
Our Acadian, French Canadian, and Maine Ancestors	Ken Roy	updated to add Wikipedia links below header. Updated to support extensions folder rename	13.0.0.4	13.1.0	EN, FR
AppeltHaus Genealogy	Lawrence Appelt	Not a Public Site.	9.0.0.0	10.0.0	EN
Arsenault and Simpson Family Genealogy	Bob Arsenault	not a public site	9.0.0.0	9.0.3	EN
Van der Maarel Genealogy	Edward van der Maarel	Public Site.	9.0.0.0	10.0.0	EN, NL
Hooley Family Links	Rick Hooley	Public/Private	See Here	See Here	EN
Brady Family Tree in Western Australia	Darryl Brady	Public site	9.0.0.1	10.1.1	EN, DE
Brabantse Genealogie	Rob van Rij	Public Site	11.0.2.3	12.2	EN,NL
Pages From Our Past	Allen Prunty	Not a public site	11.0.2.3	11.1.0	EN
OurLife Family History - McMullen Clan	Sean Thompson	Not a public site.	11.0.2.3	11.1.0	EN
Famille Potié et ses alliés	Christophe Potié	Not a public site.	11.0.2.3	11.1.0	EN, FR
R G Strong Family Genealogy	Russ Strong	Public Site	11.0.2.3	13.1.1	EN, FR, DE, NL
We are All Cousins - Quebec, French, Norwegian, New England, British monarchy	Chuck Filteau	Public site with a local mod to assist with my abbreviated place names in Quebec, Canada	11.0.2.3	12.1.0	EN
Genealogische Datenbank	JPB	Public site	see here	see here	DE, EN, FR
Lathrope Family Genealogy	S Sharpe	Public	13.0.0.4	13.0.4	EN
Genealogie Familie Smit - Kamp	Bert Smit	Public	13.0.4.5	13.0.1	NL, EN, DE, DK
Joseph Oran Holtz Genealogy Pages	Jim Holt	Private	See Here	See Here	EN