News on Database errors project (9 October 2016)

Question

Analysis was done on data from October 9nd 2016.

Comments

Excellent work Ales. I ran my own profiles through the error checker again after you brought in the new errors and found i had 4 new ones to clear.

Answer 1

Error 6x7

Added Condon to exceptions of London

Added misspelled word in error report. There is a few more due to two misspelled word in one location.

Error 7x2

Added checking ignoring space, so 1 33 is also marked as error.

Answer 2

Error 7x3, 7x4

In Info column added information on problematic word used and what to do with it. Now I think it will be clearer what to correct.

Answer 3

New error 821 Caption starts with blank

Here is a list of profiles, that have blank in front of the caption and caption is not shown as a caption.

	Total	0000-0000	0001-1499	1500-1699	1700-1799	1800-1899	1900-1999	Open	New
821 Caption starts with blank	3137	57	59	387	661	1626	347	2839	3137

Comments

what is a caption?

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Dennis

Its the Header for a section in the free text profile area, where instead of the header being shown in bold it shows as just text like === Name === because there is a space before the first = so the wiki text generater ignores the Header instruction

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Ales - can you please add false error 'tag' to these too as some are actually === 's embeded in the profile text by the author of the profile text

see the first 4 in the 1900-1999 area for examples

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Ah, so we're catching Wiki-Markup syntax errors for Heading and Subheading lines, or mistaken plain text based divider lines (since I, myself, often use multiple equal or dash characters as simple dividing lines in my plain text files, both with or without leading blanks).

Got it. Thanks.

Maybe someone should write the help definition before implementing the code: http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:DBE_821 (page doesn't yet exist, as of this writing)

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Changed Caption to Header. Also added False error. And help page is written.

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Great work as always - Thanks

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Thanks Ales

Answer 4

New errors 551 - Wikidata - Missing gender, 552 Wikidata - Different gender

I started to validate data against Wikidata/Wikipedia. First are gender checking. This errors should be checked carefully.

There are 3 possibilities of error.

• Wrong link to wikidata. Delete or correct the link on Wikidata. If you don't know how or don't want to edit wikidata, write a post in this G2G post and I will correct it. You can also mark error as false error.
• Error in wikidata. Mark error as false error.
• Error in wikitree. Correct data in wikitree and error should be gone on monday.

1469893 Errors	Total	0000-0000	0001-1499	1500-1699	1700-1799	1800-1899	1900-1999	2000-Now	Open	New
551 Wikidata - Missing gender	154	6		1	1	38	107	1	42	154
552 Wikidata - Different gender	27		3		2	11	11		22	27

Comments

Draft help pages

• Space:DBE_551
• Space:DBE_552

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Feedback 20161014-1: Looks like you have to check for the privacy before saying wrong Gender

Spade-58 is red privacy ==> you cant see the gender or?!?!

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Feedback 20161014-2
Would be nice to have the Wikidata Q number in the report Errors in profiles on WikiTree

Example:

• Moczarski-5 
• Report WTWeb/errors.htm?WikiTreeID=Moczarski-5

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Feedback 20161014-3 

Not easy with gender
According to Berendt's book, Chablis was a transgender woman; Berendt wrote that he met Chablis as she was returning home from having a hormone injection. In her book ''Hiding My Candy'', Chablis said she had not undergone gender reassignment surgery.

Wikidata says female Q2892092
Wikitree has male Knox-2318

My non humble opinion: is with today WikiTree solution with DNA genealogy I would prefer to follow the XY chromosomes.... 

Correct Wikidata solution ?!?!
On page it says

sex or gender

P21

Item

sex and gender: Sexual identity of subject: male (Q6581097), female (Q6581072), intersex (Q1097630), transgender female (Q1052281), transgender male (Q2449503). Animals: male animal (Q44148), female animal (Q43445). Groups of same gender use "subclass of" (P279)

Confucius <sex or gender> male

 

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Magnus,

1.) You probably mean missing gender. I noticed that already.

2.) It will be published later today.

3.) Mark it as false error.

About privacy: Should I add connected private profiles as an error?

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1) was just that I guess that Spade-58 has a gender but its hidden behind the red privacy "wall"

3) was more a comment that Wikidata maybe is wrong set up and that I don't know if we have some kind approach in WikiTree. 

I think Chelsea_Manning is another case with a "floating" gender ==>

• Wikidata Q298423
  • P21 gender
    • male
      • end time 22 aug 2013
    • transgender female
      • start time 22 aug 2013
    • female
      • start time 22 aug 2013
• WikiTree Manning-3485
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  • Gender ? (privacy set so you cant see it)
  • WikiTree Category: LGBT

Question added on the talk page in Wikidata

Answer 5

New errors 551 - 558

I started to validate data against Wikidata/Wikipedia. First are gender and date checking.

• 551 Wikidata - Missing gender
• 552 Wikidata - Different gender
• 553 Wikidata - Empty birth date
• 554 Wikidata - Imprecise birth date
• 555 Wikidata - Different birth date
• 556 Wikidata - Empty death date
• 557 Wikidata - Imprecise death date
• 558 Wikidata - Different death date

This errors should be checked carefully. There are 3 possibilities of an error.

• Wrong link to wikidata. Delete or correct the link on Wikidata. If you don't know how or don't want to edit wikidata, write a post in this G2G post and I will correct it. You can also mark error as false error.
• Error in wikidata. Mark error as false error.
• Error in wikitree. Correct data in wikitree and error should be gone on monday.

	Total	Open	New
553 Wikidata - Empty birth date	203	188	203
554 Wikidata - Imprecise birth date	3026	922	3026
555 Wikidata - Different birth date	3216	3167	3216
556 Wikidata - Empty death date	236	205	236
557 Wikidata - Imprecise death date	1263	1094	1263
558 Wikidata - Different death date	3587	3542	3587