How is our Victorian tree going? Victoria, Australia profiles update

Question

Hi Wikitreers

It has been more than six months since I last checked-in on our statistical progress for Victorian profiles on Wikitree, using Wikitree+ (G2G: 18 Aug 2023).

What do you think of our progress?

Numbers

Data Doctor Unsourced Reports indicate 1,561,251 (4.17%) of Wikitree profiles may be considered “Australian”, of which 488,005 may be considered “Victorian”. There are 40,892 (9.15%) more Victorian profiles now than when I last checked on 18 August 2023 (197.5 new Victorian profiles per day).

‘Needs’ categories

 Maintenance categories on Wikitree serve as 'site-wide to-do lists'. While the Australian-specific ‘Needs’ categories no longer exist (done away with by the Australia Project in 2020), analysis of the number of Victorian profiles in ‘Needs’ categories is possible with Wikitree+. This analysis is time‑consuming when compared to scanning the numbers in Australian-specific categories, but unfortunately there is no other way.

• 'Needs Biography' is currently tagged to around 14,570 profiles (down 1166 compared to 18 August 2023). A search on Wikitree+ suggests that 6641 (up 606) of these had a birth, death or marriage in Australia and 4968 (down 450) had a birth, death or marriage in Victoria. 
   
• 'Needs Birth Record' is currently tagged to around 28,780 profiles (up 774). A search on Wikitree+ suggests that 22,039 (up 976) of these had a birth, death or marriage in Australia; 10,334 (down 14) are stated to have been born in Australia); 20,296 (up 1175) had a birth, death or marriage in Victoria. 8432 (up 120) are stated to have been born in Victoria).
   
• Needs Marriage Record' is currently tagged to around 13,023 profiles (down 148). A search on Wikitree+ suggests that 8565 (down 52) of these had a birth, death or marriage in Australia (2781 (down 133) are stated to have married in Australia). 7488 (up 9) had a birth, death or marriage in Victoria, while 1816 (down 104) are stated to have married in Victoria).
   
• 'Needs Death Record' is currently tagged to around 39,004 profiles (up 26). A search on Wikitree+ suggests that 31689 (down 70) of these had a birth, death or marriage in Australia (7658 (down 1384) are stated to have died in Australia) and 31,689 (up 1620) had a birth, death or marriage in Victoria. 4763 (down 1482) are stated to have died in Victoria).
   
• 'Unsourced' is currently tagged to around 926 profiles  (up 209), according to the Data Doctors table (the table includes Victoria, Unsourced; and Unsourced with location tagged Victoria, Australia).
   
• 'Needs More Research' is currently tagged to around 7,043 profiles (up 434). A search on Wikitree+ suggests that 6003 (up 377) of these had a birth, death or marriage in Australia and 5889 (up 314) had a birth, death or marriage in Victoria. In many cases, these profiles require sources for children named in their profiles.
   
• 'Australia, Needs Profiles Created' is currently tagged to around 12,307 profiles (up 1329). A search on Wikitree+ suggests that 7851 (up 545) of these had a birth, death or marriage in Victoria.

Connecting the unconnected

Unconnected Lists suggest there are around 28,692 unconnected Victorian profiles (down 858), including 5,223 unlinked profiles (up 109).

Answer 1

Thanks Clare. It is interesting to see the progress and how the numbers are changing over time.

Comments

Thanks Steve! I wanted also to do analysis on the 'versus total' (as I did last time) - but it's so picky going through the Wikitree+ histograms!

There must be a better way - I will ask on G2G later today if I remember

Best,
Clare

Answer 2

Thanks for the update.

WA is increasing in the low 50s of profiles per day for comparison. So Victoria is about four times the rate.

I wonder if that’s a similar per capita total historical population rate? It probably is. I wonder how that rate compares to other countries? Well, I hope.

The present day population of WA vs Vic is 2.8 vs 6.8 million, but 1901 was 189k vs 1,200k.

Answer 3

Thanks for sharing this analysis Clare - it certainly helps keep the focus on adding fully sourced profiles.