Ask Aleš (December 5, 2023)

Question

t's time for a new session of "Ask Aleš - What Do You Want To Know About WikiTree Plus?"

See you on Tuesday, December 5, 2023, 9:00am EDT aka 13:00 UTC. 

What questions do you have? You can ask by posting an answer below and your question will be answered on December 5. (It's OK if you don't watch live. The December video will remain on YouTube, like the November video.)

If you want to just watch, use this YouTube link.

Greg Clarke will be my co-host.

Answer 1

Can I clarify the time? The post says 13:00 UTC but YouTube says 14:00 UTC. Which is it?

Comments

YouTube time is correct. it is usually translated to the local time. For me youtube says 15:00.

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Hi Aleš,

In the U.K. the 5th December 2023 is on a Tuesday

i should know as it is my birthday !

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I'm so confused, I'm sure it said Wednesday 13 December earlier when I put it in my calendar.

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The date changed after the initial post. It will be on Tuesday 5th.

Answer 2

I inadvertently started this discussion on the October thread the night before the December thread was posted.

Answer 3

Is it possible to use Wikitree+ to search for profiles that have/haven't an image/photo attached?

Answer 4

Hello Aleš,

I wish to completely remove my watchlist entries, but i am led to believe that i can not be a profile manager and not have that profile on my watchlist.

In an effort to reduce the size of my watchlist (as recommended in one of the recent anniversary youtube videos) i have tried several methods by replacing myself with the user ID of the person that i originally created some of the profiles on behalf of.

Those efforts resulted in two outcomes, one by where my friend took over as being profile manager and one by where some of the profiles are now orphans.

But apparently some of the profiles of both types are still on my watchlist, as my watchlist count was reduced from 8355 to 7821 but the number of profiles for which i am the manager was reduced to 7291.

The number of free space pages on my watchlist is only about 20.

So, i need a method of listing which profiles are on my watchlist and the relevant profile manager.

I then need to download that list to a spreadsheet - so that i can then go through the 500 or so profiles on my watchlist but for which i am no longer the profile manager.

thanks, Allan

Answer 5

Would it help with the WikiTree+ maps showing a plethora of cemeteries, if it waits to display the detail of the listing of cemeteries until down to county level (USA/Canada example), since they are grouped by that entity level? i.e. Lanark County, Ontario, Cemeteries. Instead, just show a count of cemeteries by entity level? 

Answer 6

Is it possible for the error message list in Suggestions to be ordered based on error number?

Thanks!

Karen

Comments

No. You can however filter suggestions by a single one.

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Yep, I got that. Just thinking it would be easier to find the error I’m looking for if the list was in order. Nothing’s broken, just a “nice to have” ☺️

Answer 7

When is the WT+ database updated?  Can it be done any more often?  I regularly use it to find data that needs attention but then it's a long wait to see the next iteration.

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Once a week. Data is taken from the wikitree database on Sunday and processed until Tuesday, when new suggestions are published.

I don't think we will change that.

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Thanks for the info.  I had thought it was every two weeks.  I will wait until Wednesday to do my refresh and start anew on the tasks I use it for.