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Magna Carta Project|History
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Timeline
From the beginning...
- 6 March 2014: The project began with the creation of the Magna Carta Project page. The initial goal was to categorize and improve the profiles of the 'twenty-five barons who were surety for Magna Charta, and the "illustrious men" named in the preamble.' The impetus for the project's creation was the state of those profiles and the impending 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta. From today's Magna Carta Project page:
- 'Magna Carta (Great Charter) was an agreement on 15 June 1215 between John, King of England, and twenty-five rebellious barons, establishing certain limits on the authority of the king.'
- 9 April 2014: Founding co-leaders April (Dellinger) Dauenhauer and John Schmeeckle receive the first two badges issued to members of the Magna Carta Project. Founding members Darlene Athey-Hill & Lynden (Raber) Rodriguez also received badges on this date. Click the following image for the current list of Badged members.

- April 2014: The fledgling Magna Carta Project took flight, gaining members and focus, and the project expanded its goals to include the gateway ancestors documented in Douglas Richardson's Magna Carta Ancestry and improving the profiles 'of the generations connecting the Magna Carta barons to the gateway ancestors.' One reason for the expanded scope was the generosity of Professor Nigel Saul, who gave the project permission to post the full biographies of the barons that he had written for the Magna Carta 800th Anniversary Committee.
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- 29 April 2014: The Magna Carta Project's "Badge" for profiles that met the project's standard of excellence was born: Rhian Geleick uploaded the image for the project's logo and set to work on creating the first project box for the project - {{Magna Carta}} - for "either a Magna Carta surety baron or one of his descendants". By the end of May, it was for descendants only and Surety Barons had their own badge.
- December 2014: By the end of the year, with just under 20 members, the project had set a target date 'to meet our initial goals' before 15 March 2015, in order to capitalize on publicity surrounding the 800th Anniversary on 15 June.
- January 2015: Base Camp set up by PM Eyestone.
- January - March: It's all a blur. LOTS of work, but really good feedback, lots of new members, and project members were rightfully proud of what they had achieved in so short a time. By the anniversary, in just over a year, project members had documented and improved over seventy lineages and hundreds of profiles on these Magna Carta trails.
- February 2015: Co-leader Cheryl Hammond created a banner to identify the project's Gateway Ancestors. By June 2015, there was also a project box - "badge" - specifically for Gateways. The last of the banners was replaced in 2018.
Image:Magna Carta Image one inch high.png Magna Carta Gateway Ancestor Image:Magna Carta Image one inch high.png
- June 2015: The 800th Anniversary of Magna Carta celebrated!
- July 2015: Project members had recovered and went back to work.
- August 2015: First checklist - "Review Check List" - was created by Jack Day. It was an image file, so was replaced on 1 May 2018 with an updated and expanded checklist that was a space page. The checklist is updated as needed (click here for the project's current checklist).
- January 2016: WikiTree created the "Pre-1500" badge. This led to the project developing the "Magna Carta Project" section, since now only those certified to work on pre-1500 profiles could see all the notes about trails and status of reviews that were hidden text (visible only in edit view), and the bulk of the project's profiles are for people born before 1500.

- Part of Traci's work in 2020 (see Base Camp Project, below) was to review all of the project's profiles and add or update the Magna Carta Project section. BIG shout out to Traci - THANK YOU!!! - that was a massive undertaking!
- Click the image above for the current list of WikiTree members with the badge. Click here for details about the badge, which is required in order to edit profiles for people born before 1500.
- 22 March 2016: The Magna Carta Project Account - WikiTree-36 - becomes a project member and takes over management of the project's profiles. WikiTree-36 is tied to the project's members-only Google Group.
- Update - The Google Group was opened to any WikiTree member in good standing on 9 August 2021.
- March 2017: "Needs" parameter added to {{Magna Carta}} and {{Magna Carta Project}} (the project sticker) and the project's Maintenance Categories got a major boost.
- November 2017: WikiTree's clarified "if PPP, then project account AND project box" guideline had the project scrambling, since we only added the project box to profiles once they met project standards and were in a project-reviewed/approved trail (referred to as "badging" the profile, short for "badge of excellence").
- The clarified guidelines meant we had to either remove protection and the project account from the profiles not yet ready to be badged or come up with an alternative to badging profiles that did not yet meet project standards or the trail was not yet ready to be badged, which is what we did.
- A "Trail Pending" project box was developed and proposed to the Templates Project, which suggested that instead of having a fourth project box for the project (we already had separate badges for Gateways and Sureties), they could help us re-do our Magna Carta template to meet the project's needs. Which is how the Magna Carta project box came to have seven variations by January 2018.
- The two most used are the project badge - {{Magna Carta}} - and the Trail Pending variation - {{Magna Carta|Trail Pending}} - which is not considered a project badge but is a project box and allows the project account to be a manager/co-manager of the profile.
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