Is there any way to tag (privately?) managed profiles to keep track of pending cleanup tasks?
I currently have 3313 profiles on my watchlist and find it difficult to manage the improvement of these profiles.
Wiktree does provides a background process to aid in management by which somebot or somebody will tag profiles that are unsourced, inserting the {{Unsourced}} tag into the head of the biography and sources section, thus flagging such profiles as unsourced.
Along with this, Wikitree provides a drop down menu function of Find>Unsourced Profiles that will then open a list of such unsourced profiles, thus allowing a manager to direct his attention to cleaning up such unsourced profiles.
In doing such work, however, there are many more states that a profile can be in between being data sparse & completely unsourced, to being completed to the satisfaction of a manager. And yet there seems to be no way to manage a large watchlist to keep track of the state of all the profiles on the watchlist as one drives to improve them.
My question is: How can one keep track of the state of each profile in a watchlist to a high degree of granularity, so that one can keep track of which improvements need to be made to which profiles so as to manage ones work, and indeed to be able to find ones managed profiles that require certain work to be done, without having to search through a large complex tree of profiles? Is there a method in place? I haven’t found one.
As an example of profile states, I could offer many. All profiles must have a date, but a minimally completed profile might only have a single uncertain date, say to the year, whereas a well completed profile should have exact birth, marriage and death dates to the day. Similarly, the locations for each such event my be missing, or only coarsely defined (e.g. country), or finely defined (e.g. town, county, state, country). And when it comes to sources, this can range from a single source which perhaps proves only that the person existed and a single uncertain date and a partial name, to a set of sources that back up every name, date, location, and relationship that is claimed for the person. And finally, one can have biographies that are in various states, ranging from describing nothing, to many paragraphs describing a person’s life.
Given all of this, while it would seem impossible to automatically tag profiles with detailed completion states, it would seem possible to automatically create lists of sources that are missing birth, death, or marriage dates and locations (if only showing whether the location field is empty or not), and it should also be possible to automatically tag a profile with an indication as to the precision of each date (to the year, to the month, or to the day) and whether these dates are tagged as certain. Indeed, if one could have functions to find date status or find location status for ones watchlist, this would help one organize ones efforts to clean up the weakest profiles that one is managing, rather than just randomly finding such weak profiles and one traverses through ones trees.
A suggested way to do this for birth dates would be to have a function perhaps called Find > Imprecise Births that would list all of the profiles one is managing ordered according to birth date precision from empty, to the year, to the month, to the day, and only not listing those profiles that have birth dates precise to the day and tagged as certain.
A suggested way to do this for death dates would be to have a function perhaps called Find > Imprecise Deaths that would list all of the profiles one is managing ordered according to death date precision from empty, to the year, to the month, to the day, and only not listing those profiles that have death dates precise to the day and tagged as certain.
A suggested way to do this for death dates would be to have a function perhaps called Find > Imprecise Marriages that would list all of the profiles one is managing ordered according to marriage date precision from empty, to the year, to the month, to the day, and only not listing those profiles that have marriage dates precise to the day and tagged as certain.
A suggested way to do this for birth locations would be to have a function perhaps called Find > Empty Birth Locations that would list all of the profiles one is managing that have an empty birth location (as it would seem to complex to analyze filled in birth locations as to their completeness, but at least profiles having empty birth locations would be listed.
A suggested way to do this for death locations would be to have a function perhaps called Find > Empty Death Locations that would list all of the profiles one is managing that have an empty death location (as it would seem to complex to analyze filled in death locations as to their completeness, but at least profiles having empty death locations would be listed.
A suggested way to do this for marriage locations would be to have a function perhaps called Find > Empty Marriage Locations that would list all of the profiles one is managing that have an empty marriage location (as it would seem to complex to analyze filled in birth locations as to their completeness, but at least profiles having empty marriage locations would be listed.
In addition to this, or as an alternative to this, it would be useful to have a series of colour tags associated with each profile that a profile manager can set on/off for each profile, and which is shown along side each profile when one does a Find > Watched Profiles, or when viewing a family tree or list of descedents, and which can be turned on or off on the edit page for each profile. The purpose of such tagging would be arbitrary and only set by and seen by the manager of the profile. In this manner it would be analogous to how files or folders can be tagged with colours on a Macintosh computer, which proves very useful for keeping track of work done or work to do, when dealing with management of a lot of files and folders. Just as on a Macintosh, having seven colour tags that can be turned on or off should be sufficient.
Such colour tagging of profiles, controlled by, and only visible to, the profile manager would be very helpful to keep track of how complete each profile is, and what work remains to be done, as arbitrarily categorized by the profile manager. This would allow the current Find>Watched Profiles to be used a work list, if such colour tags (dots) are displayed alongside each profile.
Of course, if there are better ways of accomplishing the same, that would be great, especially if easier to implement.
In summary, is there any way to do what I ask now? If not, are there any plans to add such capabilities.
Regards,
Kevin Huscroft
