30 Million profiles now on WikiTree!

Question

Today, WikiTree passed the 30,000,000 mark in the number of profiles created! Woohoo!!!!

(We're closing in on 900,000 members, too!)

Already announced.... celebrating anyway!

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The first announcement --- 30 Million Profiles on WikiTree

The second announcement --- https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1392933/wikitree-surpasses-30-million-profiles

  

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Darn! How did I miss that?!? Oh well… 

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Because enthusiasm got the better of you!  

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Maybe it's because of all the other great things that you do around here. Thank You Pip!

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Yep, it did, Melanie. I am excited. Been watching that number for weeks. Caught it during my Greeter’s shift this morning.

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Thanks a bunch, Marty! You, too!

Answer 1

Pip, how many of these profiles were created by you?

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Probably about 6000 or so.

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Actually a lot more than that - as of 20 March you had created 8778 profiles, not including any Unlisted ones (https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=CreatedBy%3DCreator_Sheppard-2686&MaxProfiles=50000&PageSize=100)

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Holy cow!!!! (Thanks, Paul)

Answer 2

Those are some awesome numbers...and to think, I am only one person in this world, who appears to be related one way or another to almost everyone.  The concept of Wikitree has changed my outlook on things.  Knowing that those before me paved the way just for a better life for their family.  The chances they took, not knowing what to expect when they arrived to the new destination.  Thank you everyone for being part of this...

Answer 3

Yeehaw!!

Peanut butter cookies for everyone!

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Only if you are making them, Luther!

Answer 4

900,000 members! How many are "active"?

Are those that joined and then for various/unknown reasons left the program are still be considered active?

I would guess that many of the those have changed their email address. Has WikiTree ever done a check on that by sending an email out and when receiving "bounce backs" removing those from the "active" list?

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There's over 200,000 that have signed the honor code.

One metric that forums and social media sites keep is unique visitors in the past month or past year, that's probably the best way to determine how many are active.

My activity comes and goes, some months I'm pretty active, then I can go for 6 months and not make a single entry. So I don't think we want to write people off as inactive too soon. Still, there's definitely a large number in that 900,000 that are likely never coming back.

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We do remove any email address that bounces.

There were 1.5 million unique visitors last month, but most did not login.

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Are those who are not logged in as members allowed to add or edit profiles and if so why?

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No, logged out visitors can at most just message or thank users.

Registered users can only add profiles connected to one’s they manage (“family members”) until they sign the honor code.

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Thanks Nathan and Chris. 1.5 million unique visitors is quite a lot! It shows we're not doing growing yet.

Answer 5

All I have to say is WOW!!!