Help:Connection Combat
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How the Game Works
Each week we post a Connection Combat game starter in G2G. (Follow the connection_combat tag for updates.)
Shortest verified connection path wins
The rules are simple:
- Use the Connection Finder to find your shortest connection path to the week's notables. If you prefer, you could use a different path.
- Answer the G2G post to choose your team and say how many steps/degrees are on your connection path.
- Verify your connection by confirming that every person along your path has a reliable source that connects them to the next person (more explanation below).
- As soon as you've verified your path, add a comment to your answer on the G2G post to announce that you did it.
The player with the shortest verified path wins!
More ways to win
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There are seven more ways to win and enter the Connection Combat Hall of Fame.
To qualify for the other categories, squash all "WikiTree Weevils" on each profile between you and the notable.
No sources is the most insidious Weevil. Here are the others:
- No dates. → Make sure each profile has at least one date (birth, death, or marriage).
- No locations. → Make sure each profile has at least one location (birth, death, or marriage).
- No biography. → Make sure each profile has at least a few sentences.
- GEDCOM-generated junk. → Clean it up if you see it. (It's easy with Automatic GEDCOM Clean-Up in the WikiTree Browser Extension.)
Squashing the Weevils — those troublemaking twig eaters — makes every branch of our tree stronger.
How to Verify Connections
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What is a connection path?
Over 85% of the people on WikiTree are connected to one another through family relationships. If you're connected, you have over 30 million family members! If you're not connected yet, add your relatives and you'll probably connect soon.
You can see how you connect to anyone else on the tree with the Connection Finder. It will display the "connection path" — the trail of family relationships — between you and the other person. Each relationship, such as a mother to a child, or a husband to a wife, is called a degree or step on the path.
How to verify steps on a path
Sources are required on WikiTree. We ask all contributors to say where information they're putting on WikiTree comes from. This is essential for productive genealogy collaboration.
However, some sources are incomplete or impossible to verify. Information about families is often passed down through the generations informally and the original source for information is lost to time. Ideally, we want sources that are reliable and verifiable. See Help:Reliable Sources for more explanation.
This is the Connection Combat challenge: can you verify each relationship along your connection path with a reliable source?
For example, if your path runs through a husband and wife, is there a marriage record? If your path runs through a mother and daughter, is there a birth certificate? Even a single census record showing family members together in the same household can count for Connection Combat.
To show that a relationship has been verified, make sure there is a source citation on each profile. If there is one already, you just need to check it.
Connections through private profiles of living people and the recently-deceased do not need to be verified for the purposes of the game.
Experimenting with different paths
There are an almost infinite number of different relationship paths between you and any other person.
By default, the Connection Finder shows the shortest connection path. You can see other paths by excluding anyone along a path with the little "X" you will see in their box. That will reroute the path around them. This might be necessary if you aren't able to verify a connection.
You can also check the Relationship Finder to see if there is a path that is strictly biological (without any connections through marriage). If there is, there may be multiple paths through different common ancestors. Check for an "Explore More" selection box below your relationship path.
In this game, you can choose to verify any path between you and the notable you like, or verify multiple paths.
Medics
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We call this game "combat" but that's just for fun. WikiTree is more about collaboration than competition. WikiTree is a friendly community where we help each other.
What if I get stuck?
If you have a hard time finding a source to confirm a connection ... or just don't know where to begin ... please post a question in G2G asking for help. Be sure to include the medic tag so our friendly medics will see it.
What if I want to help others?
We need you! When someone needs help finding a source to verify a connection, they will post a question in G2G here: medic.
If you are able to help them, that's wonderful and much appreciated.
These questions will also appear in the Connection Combat Discord channel, so if you participate there you will see them.
Thank you, medics!
Live chats
We have a special Discord channel where you can chat in real-time with other players.
Join in that channel here.
Participation Sticker/Tracker
There is a sticker for all players for wrangle weevils! You can use this as bling on your profile and also as a tracker for how many weevils you've wrangled during Connection Combat.
Here's the code for the sticker: {{Community Event |image=Social_Media_Images-9.png |text=wrangled __ weevils |event=Connection Combat }}
Count one weevil for each profile in a connection path that you've verified and cleaned. For example, if your connection was 19 degrees from a Notable and you verified the whole path, then you wrangled 19 weevils. If you verified 10 profiles in the next combat, you'd change that number to 29.
Keep track throughout the year and you might be crowned as our top Weevil Wrangler for 2024.
Winners
There are many ways to win Connection Combat!
1. Winner: The player with the shortest verified path will win the Connection Combat badge.
2. Hero Gold, Silver, and Bronze: The three players with the shortest weevil-free paths will receive gold, silver and bronze medal stickers.
3. Veteran Gold, Silver, and Bronze: The three players with the longest weevil-free paths will receive gold, silver and bronze medal stickers.
4. Scout: The player with the first weevil-free path will receive a special sticker.
5. Medic: The player who verified the most profiles as weevil-free over the course of the week will receive a special sticker. This includes profiles on any connection path and is intended to honor volunteers in the Aid Stations for their generosity in helping other players confirm connections.
6. Double Agent: The first player with a weevil-free path to both notables will receive a special sticker.
7. Peacemaker: The first player to verify a weevil-free path between the notables will receive a special sticker.
8. International Legionnaire: The player whose weevil-free path travels through the most countries.
There will also be overall winners for the year!
- 2024 Medal of Honor: The first player of the year to win a medal in all eight categories. If no player wins all eight, it will be the first to win seven, or six, etc.
- 2024 Most-Decorated of the Year: The player who won the most medals in the eight weekly categories.
- 2024 Medic of the Year aka Weevil Wrangler: The player who verified the most profiles as weevil-free over the course of the entire year.
Winning depends on you self-reporting your connection path in the G2G post of the week.
All winners are immortalized in the Connection Combat Hall of Fame.
Winner Stickers
Hero Gold:
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