Suggestions News and Updates (December 27th 2020) [closed]

Question

News

• No news

Previous News

• I added export format to general search, where you can select to get the table in table format for excel instead of HTML. There is also JSON export where only userID is exported for 3rd party apps using WikiTree+.
• I changed the locations mapping for Ireland. GeoNames database has really bad coverage for Ireland and I used townlands.ie database instead. Matching locations are much better now. Now I also have a system to add another local database if needed.
• Search results can now be exported ot a CSV. That is useful to open it in excel. It will be integrated to WT+, but for now you can use such link https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTWebProfileSearch/Profiles.csv?Query=Ljubljana+Trtnik&format=csv
• I added domain names of the URLs in the Index. You can now search for any domain. You should search for wikitree_com or www_wikitree_com. Endings of the URL are also added to the search engine so www.wikitree.com is found if you search for www_wikitree_com or wikitree_com or just com. Searching for nl will find all profiles that link to a dutch domain. Field name is Domain so you can refine the search like domain=nl
• I started to check the links on the profiles. First step is the DNS name. That is the first part of the link like www.wikitree.com. Two new suggestions were added in new section Links.
  • 961 Invalid domain name in link: These are the DNS names, that are not in correct form as defined by standards.
  • 962 Domain name in link not resolved: These are the DNS names, that do not resolve to the IP. Usually it is a typo or the server is no longer available.
• I noticed, that links to WikiTree+ Maps was added to the "Family Tree & Tools" page of each profile.
• I added a link to Kay (Sands) Knight's Bio Check application on each search result page.
• Added 602, 632 and 662 - Separators in Location suggestions.
• Added links to WikiTree+ Maps on Category pages and in WT+ Category Navigator. See: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1129111/category-mapping and on Template pages in the Info box and in WikiTree+ search results (Link is in the heading. Look for WikiTree+ Map link). There are also links to WikiTree+ Maps on each profile, that is shown by WikiTree+. See https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1122806/wikitree-maps
• I added a new magic word: MissingLocation to find profiles without the location. You can also use BirthLocation=MissingLocation or DeathLocation=MissingLocation to find missing locations just in one of the fields.
• I added Privacy to the search index. You can one of the folowing privacy values to limit the results: Private, PrivatePB (Private with Public Biography), PrivatePT (Private with Public Family Tree), PrivatePBPT (Private with Public Biography and Family Tree), Public And Open

Challenge

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1160036/challenge-of-the-week-clean-up-gedcom-generated-data