Suggestions News and Updates (May 7th 2023) [closed]

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News

  • Updated the category member's history report to remove the profiles thet were removed from the category.
  • Added a link on WT+ on Category items (search and navigate pages) to category history report. It is a link on letter T next to the location pin after the category name.
  • Fixed a link to search for profiles on a FG cemetery in cemetery reports.
  • Added gender to WT+ search index. You can now search for MaleFemale and NoGender
  • Added Northrn Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, Southern Rhodesia to Zambia and Nyasaland to Malawi in the location table https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=Africa
  • Added Province of New Hampshire and Utah Territory as historical entities in the location table https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=United%20States
  • Started rescan of the external links, that were ok in initiall scan. I scanned 500K profiles (out of 8M) and 25K of them were no longer available. and since some are used more than once we have 50K new suggestions. That means that in 2 years 5 % of the URLs are no longer working. I am a bit surpriced by the number.

Previous News

  • In the last two weeks I did yearly rescan of all broken links. And 11K out of 200K were reported ok. That reduced the suggestions count for 13500 last week and another 2000 this week.
  • I wrote the help pages for new mitoyDNA ID suggestions.
  • I did some finetunning in typo variations for location and name suggestions.
  • Added magic word ApprovedMerge that returns profiles where the merge was approved and can be completed. PendingMerge now returns only profiles, that are waiting for the approval.
  • I fixed some error in FindAGrave data import since the page was changed. There might be a jump in FG relatives suggestions since they were not picked up in the last two weeks.
  • I adjusted the 853 Gedcom Junk to report also orphan profiles with only 2 GEDCOM Junk headings. That added 160K suggestions to the report.
  • Added a posibility to see when a profile was added to the category. Use this link and replace the category name. https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTCategoryTime/CategoryTime.htm?Category=Puritan_Great_Migration_Project_Needs_Relationship_Check
  • These suggestions were not added last week, so here they are.
    • Suggestion 176 DNA - Invalid mitoyDNA ID.
    • Suggestion 177 Duplicated mitoyDNA ID.
    • Suggestion 178 mitoyDNA ID used as yDNA and mtDNA Haplogroup.
  • Added reports for USBH
  • I changed the handling of the text variations for finding typos. I added a space to the variations. There is an increase in some related suggestions. It should bind spaces within words and also missing hypens.
  • I updated the search engine to handle queries from multiple indexes much faster. For example searches like Birthcountry=England and Birthregion=UnknownRegion are now done 100 times faster.
  • Added Cumbria as england location. https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=ENG
  • Added reports for Cumbria and Bristol
  • Made some changes to the location table https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=IRL about County Dery. It will be reported as 618 suggestion.
  • Added a few new things into search index. All is DNA related.
    • Added mitoyDNA ID to the DNA index
    • added noGEDMatchID and noMitoyDNAID magicwords to find profiles, where replicated test is missing either ID.
  • Suggestion 153 DNA yDNA test on female extended to check yHaplogroup also on auDNA tests.
  • Suggestion 161 yDNA Haplogroup wrong extended to check yHaplogroup also on auDNA tests.
  • Suggestion 166 mtDNA Haplogroup wrong extended to check mtHaplogroup also on auDNA tests.
  • Adjusted location table for Argyle, Scotland
  • EditBOT corrected 3000 profiles with invalid domain www.itd.nps.gov
  • Added a few new things into search index. All is DNA related.
    • yDNA and mtDNA magicwords were moved from index Tree= to DNA=
    • Added auDNA magic word to DNA index
    • Added yHaplogroup and mtHaplogroup to the DNA index
    • Added GedMatch ID to the DNA index
  • Added 2 new DNA suggestion about conflicting dna haplogroups. 162 Different yDNA Haplogroup and 167 Different mtDNA Haplogroup
  • I finnished the "Search results grouping". Below the results table, there is a box where you can select the grouping field and results are shown as unique values by selected field with the count of each value.

Challenge

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1578358/challenge-of-the-week-improve-star-profiles

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in The Tree House by Aleš Trtnik G2G6 Pilot (879k points)
closed by Aleš Trtnik
Added Northrn Rhodesia to Zimbabwe, Southern Rhodesia to Zambia

:) Other way round
Indeed.  Copy/pasteing multiple times can make such mistakes.
I noticed more broken links on this week's suggestion for profiles related to me. Thanks for the explanation.

2 Answers

+7 votes

Thank you  Aleš for all you do to make WikiTree better !!

by Ronel Olivier G2G6 Pilot (135k points)
Here, here or hear, hear, which ever is more correct for I AGREE! He is outstanding!
+5 votes

The linkrot stat (5%) is surprising, where external links get broken at a high rate.  

We could take it as a leading indicator that our sourcing documentation should encourage capturing archive.org stable links for linked resources.  The challenge, presumably, would be to draft guidelines about what kind of links tend to rot, vs. links to databases like findagrave and familysearch that really shouldn't be archived for this purpose.  

Hmm.

by E. Compton G2G6 Pilot (203k points)

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