I agree with Margreet and Jan.
But...... only for 90%.
I realize that many participating like the game part of the challenges. And yes that is doubtful, but I think we must be very happy and thankful we have so many enthusiastic participants. Working with - at this moment already 27!! participants - will make WT a better Tree.As long as the source is reliable and added right.
Goal of the challenges is also to get to know each other better and to make it easier/feeling free to ask for more explanations and help. Yeh, some of us have more knowledge about genealogy, but most of us were just lucky to join WT much earlier and had heaps of help of those that joined WT even more early.
Guys, Michel (I am sorry I am talking about you here Michel) is still kind of new and doing such great work at our project and WT as we all see. Also the tools he made are fabulous! This is his first Th. He does not know about teams that are adding 60 sources per minute yet. We know we can not win ever because of that. But as ever, at least we can try!
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Winning is not my goal. Ending in the Top 10 is. Not for me personally but to show at WT what we are able to do as the Netherlands Project/Dutch Roots Project with such a "little" but fantastic and very active group. We were always able to get into the top 10 or almost in the top 10 with a much smaller team than the "mighty" other bigger teams and without large preparations other teams obvious do.
Yes we hardly revisit the =needs profiles as there are so many of them.
So much too do and sooo little time.
The moment the template {{Unsourced|Netherlands}} is deleted and not a "needs=...." is added they vanish into the "greenstuff" of our Wikitree. T.G(oodness) we have WikiTree+ nowadays. And we are able to find them pretty easily back.
So as Bea asks in the long list of explanations about the Thon, here is my wishlist to that:
First: I encourage and thank everyone that provide a full/finished profile with reliable BMD (birth marriage and death) sources AND a DRP sticker (or DRP project box if the profile is of interest or very old).
But note: The goal of the S-a-Th is to get profiles from the "Unsourced List" by just adding one reliable source. That is what participants register/subscribe to.
My wish is indeed to add at least one reliable source AND add at anyway a sticker with needs= or replace the "Unsourced" template before saving the profile after adding one or more reliable sources AND the template {{Dutch Roots Sticker| needs=More Records}}
I know we are not even close that way at engaging the goal of the DRP - to fully source unsourced profiles by adding just one reliable source. But we proof at least the person existed. We find duplicates that way.
It means to me we just need to organize more DRP challenges. Working together is such fun!
And I thought of a new sort of challenge last days like sourcing all profiles of just one active/nonactive member of WT. Jan inventoried last weeks all big gedcoms. Good start. But we also know some members added manual thousands of profiles during the time WT started and was happy with genealogieonline etc as source.
Now let's focus on the S-a-Th. Do as you like: Source profiles completely for the pro's or add one source AND add at least a template or sticker.
And the very most important things is:
HAVE FUN AND PLEASE ASK QUESTIONS!
