@ColeValleyGirl @JanMurphy I like @lkessler's idea of using Meta rather than chat for this.

Also, I'm not sure that I'll contribute anything to its early formation because I see myself as more of an "end user" of this canonical Q&A rather than as any sort of a co-author of it.

That notwithstanding I'm very supportive of you taking this on, and many thanks for doing so.

@lkessler @JanMurphy @PolyGeo Having thought about this overnight, I think we need to combine the two approaches. Meta is a good place to have a co-operatively edited text, but it's really hard to hold a multi-user discussion there. What about using the conference room to propose changes additions and deletions (with reasoning) or to question the content and then make the agreed edits in Meta?

For example, I don't think the examples I've included are necessarily the right ones -- I've just used examples from my own family as I have them to hand. Does anyone have better examples, or at least an idea of what we want the examples to show (how the same relationship can show up differentlt? how a distant relationship might not show up at all? the effect of removes and half-relationships? endogamy? or something else?)

I think that sort of things needs to be a discussion not just an edit appearing out of nowhere.

@PolyGeo I'm not an expert in this by any means -- I just volunteered to do the heavy lifting of getting the work going and shepherding it along because I highlighted the need. Having your non-expert eyes saying 'I don't understand' and 'what about' and 'I've always wondered' would be invaluable.

@ColeValleyGirl Haven't had a chance to look at the draft yet -- hope to give some feedback soon. Thanks again for your effort on this.

As for the Q about where to do this & how, we can consider this an experiment and then look back later to see what worked & didn't work.