Question

News on Database errors project (February 26th 2017)

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Aleš, you give me a reason to look forward to Mondays.

Thank you for your work.

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Wikidata people asked 
"Daniel Mietchen and I have been compiling a list of external sites that use Wikidata IDs to uniquely identify and disambiguate concepts in their own data.

Wikidata:Wikidata_for_authority_control

Please add any that you know of; and encourage the organisations you work with to use Wikidata IDs similarly."

see Facebook post in group The Wikidata Community

Answer 1

Added possibility to see 1st generation tree according to dates for all errors and in search results

Added possibility to see 1st generation tree according to dates. Next to Wikitree link is a link Tree, that shows the tree. It may help understand relatives of a person.

Example: http://wikitree.sdms.si/findtree.htm?userid=3540972

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When do we get support for VR glasses ;-)

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Which model do you have?

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Something cheap like this

Insert the phone and select two pictures...

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Oh, we don't support that one. But you got me thinking how to represent family tree in 3D. We also support that.

Answer 2

511 Unique Names (spelling) Error

Aleš, when looking for the 511 Unique Names (spelling) error, does the software concatenate the first name with the other nicknames to compare against the rest of the database?

I have a few profiles where I've put alternate spellings of the first name as other nicknames to make it easier to find the profiles in searches.  For instance, Ijpe Feima was born in the Netherlands around 1771; the dutch search engines know that "IJ" is synonymous with "Y" and give results for both variations, but other search engines aren't that smart yet.  My error report shows the Full Name as "Ijpe Ype Feima" and when I click on the link attached to the "Ijpe Ype" portion it shows there is one profile using the name "Ijpe Ype."

Is the error triggered by the name "Ijpe," since there are only four profiles that include that name, or is the error triggered by the combination "Ijpe Ype," since there is only one profile that has that name combination?

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Only profiles with unique combination of all names are checked. And then each word is checked and if all words appears more than 5 times, there is no error.

In your case Ype is ok, but Ijpe appears only 3 times.

Ijpe Ype

Total: 1 FirstNames for "Ijpe Ype".

First Name	Total	Public	Gender Empty	Gender Female	Female (%)	Gender Male	Male (%)	Name Type
Ijpe Ype	1	1	0	0	0.00	1	100.00	Unknown

Ijpe

Total: 3 FirstNames for "Ijpe".

First Name	Total	Public	Gender Empty	Gender Female	Female (%)	Gender Male	Male (%)	Name Type
IJpe	2	2	0	1	50.00	1	50.00	Unisex
Ijpe Annesz	1	1	0	0	0.00	1	100.00	Unknown
Ijpe Ype	1	1	0	0	0.00	1	100.00	Unknown

Ype

Total: 20 FirstNames for "Ype".

First Name	Total	Public	Gender Empty	Gender Female	Female (%)	Gender Male	Male (%)	Name Type

 

Answer 3

Added magic words 0cen, 1cen, ... 20cen, 21cen IsInWikiData in search definition

I added special magic words to search definition, so you can search for profiles with birth in any century. 0cen is for profiles with unknown birth date. If any of relatives has birth date set, estimation is made for birth date, so even profiles without dates are in appropriate century. You can combine that word with name, location, category or template. It its accessible on WikiTree+ in Group Search / All Wikitree,

Answer 4

Updated tree display

Years scale on left and right is now showing actual years.

Birth and death years on the person didn't display correctly on years before 1000.

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I did test the Tree view see video and it feels much easier to use than understanding from WikiTree text interface if something is wrong

I used the following Error list

Example of view link Polotsk-2


Big pic

1. Year
   1. Top --> Direction down
      Picture above we have year 850 to year 1000 displayed
       
2. The symbols
   1. The base person is marked RED
   2. Father to the left blue
   3. Mother to the right marked light red 
   4. Children marked light orange 
   5. Spouse marked light blue
   6. Siblings marked light green
3. ​The rules
   1. Bar of the children and the bar of the parents
      1. need to overlap ==> mother and father needs to be alive
   2. Line to children should always be direction down 
      1. children should be born later than the parents

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Link for video is wrong

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Correct video URL 

OBS this is just me trying maybe someone with a better video voice like Julie can make a video that is easier to follow....

Answer 5

I added FAQ section to the project. 

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Database_Errors#Frequently_asked_questions_.28FAQ.29

If you know of any other G2G posts or questions, that would belong there, let me know.