Did you see the new links on your Watchlist?

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Hi WikiTreers,

We made some changes to the navigation links on Watchlists. (Here is yours.)

There's now a row of buttons for:

  • Activity
  • Anniversaries
  • Find Matches
  • FS Matches
  • Images
  • Pending Merges
  • Unconnected
  • Unsourced

The last one in particular is new. It takes you to http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Unsourced_Profiles with "limit to Watchlist" pre-selected.

 

Chris

 

P.S. We really need to do some more basic work on links and navigation. The pull-down menus have gotten overloaded. I don't like the idea of a second-level of pull-down menus. I find those hard to use. It's a possibility, though.

in The Tree House by Chris Whitten G2G Astronaut (1.5m points)
retagged by Robin Lee
Can we add another pull-down?

Perhaps called Collaboration Tools and reorganize the other pull-downs accordingly.

I am not following the indications for the step :

The last one in particular is new. It takes you to http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Unsourced_Profiles with "limit to Watchlist" pre-selected.

I thought you were saying the this link would bring me to unsourced profiles on my watchlist, but it clearly brings me to tons of unsourced profiles that aren't on my watchlist?

Chris,  After being sent to the page from the link to all unsourced profiles, in the upper right is a link that says.. limit to watchlist.  Click on that link and you will be sent to your list of unsourced profiles that are on your watchlist.
Thank you Michael, it not only worked, it was surprisingly empty!

Chris Hoyt
Yeah I only have three in mine. Remember these are only the profiles somebody added the unsourced profile template to. I'm sure I have profiles that are unsourced that do not have the unsourced template in it.
I am sure I have a bunch too!  Was hoping this was an easy way to find them, but they were likely entered prior to the tool that has you enter a source or automatically get tagged.
Chris and Michael, the button on your Watchlist, doesn't it take you directly to the Watchlist-limited view of the Unsourced Profiles category? Chris, it should take you to this: http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Category:Unsourced%20Profiles&u=3275702
Well there you go. We followed the link given. You were describing the link from the profile. Find > watched profiles> unsourced.

7 Answers

+16 votes
That's awesome, Chris!
by Nan Starjak G2G6 Pilot (384k points)
Nice!
+11 votes
Chris, that is wonderful...makes it a lot easier to help people understand their workload!
by Robin Lee G2G6 Pilot (866k points)
+9 votes

It is truly awesome Chris. There is just one thing - I do not use watchlists anymore - somehow I have to be all over the place and be part mentor part greeter (I still haven't gotten a clear answer on the difference between the two) and how this (my "watchlist") is going to help me, I do not understand. Apparently I have 9408 profiles om my watchlist (I'm only allowed to follow 20 names I thought) .... But coming back to my point - I do not use watchlists but look who is new when I get the Daily updates, en who has done what to some profiles I am or the Project is manager of, or the names I follow. I use pending mergers a lot - my own and those of the whole of WikiTree. I still do not see the use of having ''Anniversaries"(as I have stated once before) and do not understand how FS matches work. I also have the feeling that if I'd want to understand all the functionalities of WikiTree, I'll be busy all day long studying that and not be busy with the actual work of filling, sourcing and merging profiles, not to mention the editing of the bio's.

by Philip van der Walt G2G6 Pilot (171k points)
To give my answer some context: (from Guy): We have a great new tool to see the manaagers of unsourced profiles. This will be great specially for mentors following mentorees who have unsourced profiles :)

Philip, and to clarify for anybody with confusion about this feature, the Watchlist is technically and simply the list of every single profile for which you are a member of the Trusted List.

You find it in the pull down menu now as Find > Watched Profiles.

Or alternatively as My WikiTree > Watchlist.

It's the basic tool for managing any of ALL of your OWN profiles that you at one time or other either 1) imported 2) created 3) adopted  4) made a Trusted List request or 5) somebody else added you to the Trusted List without specific request.

I use mine constantly, because it allows different sort options. In particular, it can sort by the oldest edit, so it gives me a chance to focus on those profiles which have had no edit attention for many years.

It also has a tab to navigate to your list of Free-Space Profiles, for people who have created those extra bonus things for themselves.

If your work is concentrated in the project, and visiting your own profiles in particular is not a priority, then the project interfaces are probably more of a direct route for you to work on things daily as you do.

But it is always a very good idea for everybody to give at least a little bit of attention to their own Watchlist every so often, so that certain profiles in there do not grow stale from lack of needed attention. It becomes very easy to neglect such profiles that we otherwise do not come across.

So once in a while I change up my strategy for tackling my Watchlist. For instance, I recently sorted to find the oldest edited profiles that lacked any dates, and I then filled those in with good estimates.

Good reminder, Stephen.
Thanks Steven for the heads up!
+8 votes
Thanks Chris! Very cool!
by Michelle Hartley G2G6 Pilot (168k points)
+9 votes
This is great, but I did find some profiles where they clearly have the UNSOURCED category, but, don't show up on the list.

Has anyone else had this issue?

Chris gave me this update...

A month or two ago we fixed a bug where new profiles were not immediately being added to categories. You needed to save them again in order for them to appear. We fixed this, but profiles from before the change may still not appear until they are edited.

If a profile still doesn't appear after an edit, it must be something else and we should investigate further.
by Robin Lee G2G6 Pilot (866k points)
edited by Robin Lee
+6 votes
Hi Chris,

Wasn't even aware any of these were there, I always use pull-down menus.  There does seem to be a very strange glitch in there, under the Images, which if I have understood you correctly should be limited to my watchlist.  So I click the thing, and the first thing I see is a very nice picture of a commemorative statue.  In honor of an 11th great-grandmother of mine, Marie Rollet http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Rollet-2

The problem is, although she is my ancestress, she is in no way in my watchlist.  So how come she's showing up in this?
by Danielle Liard G2G6 Pilot (663k points)
Hi Danielle,

I do see you on this Trusted List:

http://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:TrustedList&u=8322643

The statue image has three people tagged to it. You only need to be in the Watchlist for one of them for the image to appear as an image in your Watchlist.

Chris
Thank you, that clears it up.
+5 votes
This will be helpful to me.
by Marty Ormond G2G6 Mach 5 (57.3k points)

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