Project: Arborists

Categories: Arborists Project | WikiTree Help

Project Leaders: Robin Lee & Gillian Thomas

What is an Arborist and what do we do?

As an Arborist you are actively involved in improving the health of our global tree, including proposing and completing merges. You may work with WikiTree profile managers to assist them with merging duplicate profiles and providing advice when proposed merges are rejected or postponed.

For a full list of project members, see the badge report.

Are you interested in the Arborists Project?

• Project Leaders: Robin Lee and Gillian Thomas
• Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Arborists project and get a badge.
• Add Arborists to your followed tags.
• We use Wikitree-arborists Google Group for communication.

Criteria for becoming an Arborist

Before applying to join the Arborists project, make sure that you meet the criteria for being an Arborist:

1. An active Wiki Genealogist for at least 3 months with at least 1000 contributions
2. Able and willing to collaborate with and communicate effectively with other members
3. Able to add reliable sources to profiles on WikiTree as evidenced by the Sourcerers Badge or participation in a Source-a-Thon
4. Enjoy merging profiles, and confident you can do this in an accurate and efficient manner, with a focus on accuracy over efficiency
5. Familiar with the Arborists project page and help topics on merging and duplicates on WikiTree; see help pages
6. In the last month, have proposed at least 10 merges and completed at least 20 merges
7. Not currently being Mentored
8. Not currently a party to Mediation

Please do the following after you have been awarded your badge:

1. Add the category [[Category:Arborists Project Members]] (enclosed inside double brackets) to your profile page in the biography section.
2. Add arborists to your list of followed tags allowing you to see all of our discussions in your G2G Feed. It's good to also add merges, merging, and duplicates.
3. We use the WikiTree Arborists Google Group and the G2G to communicate as a project. Request to join at Wikitree-arborists Forum including your name and Wiki-ID. We also have a channel on Discord.
4. Add your name here along with a note about what you're working on. This must be regularly updated, to help the group work together effectively.

Improving your Arborists Skills

After you join the Arborists Project, check out the Arborists Skills page, where you work on activities to build your confidence and competence in merging.

Some Tasks to work on

• Work on a location or time period to review approved merges and complete if appropriate - Arborists Project Approved Merge searches - we can add new locations or other search fields
• Work on resolving unmerged matches for a specific location, period of time, or relevant to a particular project - Arborists Project Unmerged Match searches
• Review merges on the Pending Merges Waiting for Action list
• Merge duplicates in your family and in common surnames. A list of common surnames is in the works.
• Check out these Data Doctor suggestions:
  • Suggestion 211: Duplicate sibling by Father
  • Suggestion 311: Duplicate sibling by Mother
  • Suggestion 409: Marriage to duplicate person
  • Suggestion 408: Multiple marriages on the same day
• Clean up after your merges.
• Clean up old merges:
  • Data Error 811: Uncleaned profile after merge
• Keep an eye out for posts on the G2G with the Arborists tag and help fellow WikiTreers with their merges!

Arborists Error Reports:

• Duplicate Errors Report
• Serious Data Errors Report

Project Pages

• Helpful Info For New Arborists
• Member Activity
• Helpful Links

How can you request Arborist assistance?

Our Project Liaisons page lists Arborists with expertise relevant to specific projects or countries. Please contact one of the people on that list for assistance with a specific merge or line.

Alternatively, you can ask a question in the Special Project category of G2G and tag your question Arborists.

What if there are merge disagreements?

From time to time disagreements can occur involving duplicates and merging. In those situations:

1. Always make sure you add sources to support the specific facts currently on the separate profiles if available.
2. Communicate with the relevant profile managers using the comments section of the profiles, including asking the profile managers if they have specific sources they would be able to add, or to discuss discrepancies between two potential duplicates.
3. Ask for advice from the WikiTree community by posting to the G2G Q&A using the tag Arborists or by contacting one of the Arborist Project Leaders Robin Lee or Gillian Thomas.

If you still are not satisfied, please see Problems with Members.

Project Video

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Arborists Project

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