Suggestions News and Updates (August 9th 2020) [closed]

Question

News

• I released a new version of WikiTree+ Chrome extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wikitree%20/giodhdfeabddjnlhknbggojlgpnhanof It has a few new things also usable to DD. Changes in version is 0.3.3 are:
  • Moved Source pasting definition out of the extension, so I can update it daily.
  • Added Profile cleanup. It is similar to what EditBOT does automatically on save.
  • Moved Profile cleanup definition out of the extension, so I can update it daily.
• Wikidata links reached a new milestone. 150000 profiles are linked from wikidata. You can see the connection stats here. Today also marriages from ThePeerage are being imported to wikidata. That is the cause for a lot of new matches and slight increase in suggestions. It is still ongoing, so some suggestions may be temporary until next week.
• EditBOT did almost 9000 corrections to clear some of the 896 Unknown parameter in template suggestions.
• In suggestion 897 Error in template parameters I added checking of parameters that link to WikiTree pages. It is done for Categories, Projects, Space pages and Project Needs categories.

Previous News

• I added additional checking of template parameters. That was in suggestion 848. I created 4 new ones 894-897 that will cover all parameter problems.
• I prepared two new suggestions (591 FindAGrave - Possible father and 592 FindAGrave - Possible mother) that list all missing parent relations between existing profiles. The suggestion is based on FindAGrave relations. In cases where both profiles are linked to findagrave and there is a parent relation on findagrave and there is no parent on wikitree, it suggests the connection. Of course you should first check if both findagrave memorials represent the correct persons on wikitree. Then you should try to find a source for the parent claim and add the relation if everything checks out.
• Added new magic word SourceJunk to search engine. It finds profiles with text "Family Data Collection" or "Millennium File" on the profile. Those are present on 47000 profiles. Here is a list of profiles with SourceJunk. https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=SourceJunk
• Updated display of WikiData suggestions 546, 563, 564, 565, 566 and 567. Now they display link to WikiData and the data from there.
• I added new magic keyword UnmergedMatch to search for postponed merges in combination with any other text. https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=UnmergedMatch+Sweden
• I added new magic keyword PendingMerge to search for pending merges in combination with any other text. https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=PendingMerge+Sweden
• I added possibility to search template parameters. That enables you to search for any text inside curly brackets. To explicitly search template text, use templatetext=Andersson https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=templatetext%3DAndersson
• I added to Connection finder 2 new types of relation search. Paternal Lines and Maternal Lines. This can help in DNA queries to find a common father/mother. https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=disp2&WikiTreeID1=+Whitten-1&WikiTreeID2=Whitten-819&relatives=4
• I exposed the actual data on which location suggestions are based. https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries Based on the changes we did last week in the table, there are some new 6x8 spelling suggestions and 612 Location too early ones.

Challenge

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1086929/challenge-of-the-week-correct-simple-errors-reference-tags

Answer 1

So why is WikiData so important to link to?  Appears to be no different than any other Wiki, the contents is subject to verification.  For instance, you mention them uploading ThePeerage.  That was recently found to contain some fairly major error.  If you set WikiData as something to compare to as you set FaG, we are going to get more errors again based on nothing solid at the other end. 

Comments

I think wikidata is and will be a mayor player as the database of everything. It is still in its early development but it already has a lot of data and huge potential for additional informations. It is already used a lot. The Peerage is just one of the sources. I am preparing to make WikiTree an actual  source for wikidata. I will add a wikitree reference for matching data and I will probably populate the missing or different data based on WikiTree.

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oh good, make them follow us.  Perfect.