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A warm welcome to the Magna Carta Project's Members Page, and thank you for your interest in the Project. Here you will find more information about membership.
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Definitions
- This page uses terms employed by the Magna Carta project. If the meaning is not clear, there is a Project Glossary.
Membership
- Membership is open to full WikiTree members ("Wiki Genealogists") who
- have been a full WikiTree member at least 90 days
- are pre-1700-certified
- at the time of joining are not subject to a mentoring or mediation referral
- Membership is demanding - but rewarding for those who like a challenge and enjoy research and biography-writing. It is best suited to people with some significant experience of genealogy for the pre-1700 period. Members need
- to be familiar with WikiTree's main guidance on styles and standards, and how to give inline citations
- to be familiar with guidance on reliable sourcing for pre-1700 profiles
- to be comfortable creating organized, well-written, and well-sourced profiles
- to have the research skills to look beyond very straightforward sources like birth, marriage and death records (which are often unavailable for profiles managed by the Project)
- to be comfortable handling uncertainties, conflicts of evidence and disputed information thoughtfully
- to interact courteously with less-experienced profile managers and editors who may, understandably, have passionate feelings about their family's lineage
- New members are required to make the following commitments:
- to join either or both of the Post-1500 and Pre-1500 Project Teams (see Teams below)
- those who do not have pre-1500 certification should join the Post-1500 Team
- those who have pre-1500 certification may join either or both Teams
- to work within 6 months of becoming a member on six profiles of people documented by Douglas Richardson as being in Magna Carta trails, and bring them up to Project standards, taking account of the Project checklist. These should be profiles that need a significant amount of improvement (or new profiles if there is no profile yet) - not just minor editing. A project leader will let you know which profiles will meet this requirement.
- New members who have pre-1500 certification and have brought three profiles up to Project standards may choose to join the Resource Team instead of, or as well as, improving more profiles.
- When a new member finishes work on a profile, they should inform one of the team leaders so that the profile can be reviewed and marked as approved
- New members who are not pre-1500-certified may if they wish join the Pre-1500 Team once they have brought four post-1500 profiles up to Project standards: arrangements can be made where they can work in a "sandbox" on pre-1500 profiles with information being transferred to the profiles
- We recognise that real life intervenes! If circumstances mean that a new member is unable to complete work on six profiles within the 6-month period, they should inform a team leader
- See below for membership requirements for older members
- While it is not required that new members join the Project's Google Group, it is strongly encouraged. The Google Group is tied to the project account, so that the Google Group receives e-mail copies of comments and other profile-related information that profile managers receive and need to attend to.
Teams
- The project has a Leadership Team (see this section of the main project page) and Project work is undertaken by four Teams.
- There are four Teams working on profiles for the Project:
- a Post-1500 Team (leaders Michael Cayley and Jen Hutton)
- a Pre-1500 Team (leaders Michael Cayley and Jen Hutton)
- a Resource Team (leaders Michael Cayley and Jen Hutton)
- a Trail Development Team (leaders Michael Cayley and Jen Hutton)
- some of the Trail Development Team are in a Trail Review Sub-Team, which "badges" trails between Gateway Ancestors and Magna Carta Surety Barons when they have been fully developed and reviewed
Members who joined before 8 August 2021
- The requirements and obligations set out above for membership apply to members joining on or after 8 August 2021. But ALL members are encouraged to join at least one of the current Project Teams.
- Previously, different obligations have applied.
- From 3 June 2020 to 7 August 2021 there was an additional obligation to be a Gateway Guardian. The Gateway Guardian initiative has been discontinued. (It involved taking a lead responsibility for watching over the profile of a chosen Gateway and helping to respond to enquires about the Gateway.)
- From 20 February 2020 to 3 June 2020, the obligations were were:
- to become a Gateway Guardian prior to becoming a badged member
- to develop a trail to a Magna Carta Surety Baron for that Gateway Ancestor (or another, if that Gateway already has a developed trail) within 6 months of becoming a badged member
- Members who joined on or after 22 March 2016 and before 3 June 2020 are asked to complete work on trails they agreed to develop.
- Members joining before 22 March 2016 did not have to make any specific commitments, and have been "grandfathered".
Contact a Member
- Click the badge above for current Badged Members.
Collaboration
- Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit and add images.
- Private Messages: Contact the Profile Managers privately: Michael Cayley, Jen Hutton, and Magna Carta Project WikiTree. (Best when privacy is an issue.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages specifically directed to those editing this profile. Limit 20 per day.)
- Public Q&A: These will appear above and in the Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum. (Best for anything directed to the wider genealogy community.)
The requirements on this page are for members of the Magna Carta Project and are designed to help focus our efforts toward achieving the project's primary goal of developing and maintaining a trail between each Richardson-documented Gateway Ancestor (see the table at Category:Gateway Ancestors) and a surety baron (one of the 17 with descendants past the 4th generation - the ones listed at Special:Relationship). Profiles on the project-approved trail between the two are "badged" by the project so that we can maintain them.
If you're concerned about a profile not on a badged trail, you could work on developing a trail for approval that included that profile.
WikiTree recently asked that project leaders do more to encourage project members to actively participate in helping to achieve the project's goals.
The #1 goal of the Magna Carta project (as noted at Base Camp, and also on the project page) is to develop and maintain a trail from each of the 240 Gateway Ancestors documented by Douglas Richardson's works to a Surety Baron.
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