Challenge of the week: Clean up as many locations as possible [closed]

Question

Hi WikiTreers,

Will you join our "Data Doctors" Challenge of the week?

This week's challenge focuses on cleaning up the location fields on profiles.

Aleš has prepared a report of profiles from around the tree that have potential errors in their locations. These are usually simple typos that are easy to fix. But a thinking genealogist needs to give them a quick "reality check" and consider the intent of the original member and the sources before making any changes. Will you try some?

Click here for the list.

After making a change, click the "challenge tracker" button and then the edit the status. This will record a point. The member with the most points at 11:59pm EDT on Sunday night will get the badge and the bragging rights. But we'll all benefit from a neater, cleaner shared tree.

If you're participating, please post here to let us know. It's nice to cheer each other on. Or post if you have any questions about how to participate.

Thanks for helping!

Real-time tracking results: See your stats
alongside other participants here.

UPDATE:

Top 10 Participants

• Morgan M. Mulligan - 4,006
• Emma MacBeath - 1,441
• NJ J. Penny - 1,326
• Natalie J. Trott - 1,122
• Jamie O. Ball - 1,007
• Samuel Zschokke - 892
• Susan M. McNamee - 710
• Jim J. Angelo Jr - 605
• Amy Wiemer - 586
• Linda L. Barnett - 583

For more results see:

• By Participant
• By Error Type
• By Participant and Error Type
• By Error Type and Day
• By Participant and Day
• By Hour

Comments

For this challenge, using the status button is the only way your contributions count.  The tracker works for other challenges that don't have a cool status button :-)

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Ok Emma.  Thank you!

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Brenda,

Once your changes are saved, there is a green banner which appears. You should see a button to click which says "Challenges Tracker." Click that button. It should show you one or more options for possible changes, and you should also see a "status" button on the right side of the page. Click any of the status buttons. It will open another page which is called the Suggestion status. You have the option to show how you handled the changes, click any related boxes, and click "update status." That will record your changes for the competition.

Jamie

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The tracker seems to not be updating again....10:30PDT Saturday

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Jamie,

Neither of the choices for which challenge to credit appears (to me) to be the right one. Is there no way to go through the Custom Lists to do a particular state's errors and still get credit? Or is it possible to get to a state's errors through the challenge list? Not that I care to win, but participating in a group challenge adds to the fun.

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None of the choices offered by the Challenge Tracker appears to be this challenge-- is it because I went via custom lists to find the Louisiana location errors?

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Stephanie, we don't use the challenge tracker for the Data Doctor challenges because the Status button automatically tracks for us when we set the status after clearing errors.  When I mentioned the tracker wasn't working I meant the real-time results tracker that shows how many errors we have cleared.  Do you know how to set the status for errors using the status button?

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It seems that the Real-time tracking results: See your stats
alongside other participants here. Has seems stop giving the stats alongside the participants. You need to check it out.

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Oh! Now that you mention it I remember having read that a while back. I have been updating the status, thanks. The page of errors that I was working was not removing the profiles I'd done after setting the status and then refreshing the page, so I didn't know if that was affecting anything-- but I see my total showing on the stats page. Thanks for answering!

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Stephanie, the system will only remove corrected profiles from your own personal suggestion list when the status is set.  It doesn't remove them from these suggestion lists until Aleš does the date dump at the beginning of the week. And you're welcome :-)

Answer 1

I'll start on the 663's

Answer 2

I'll work on them as I find them

Answer 3

I'm in starting with the NZ ones

Answer 4

Ok I am game, I'll get started now. thanks

Answer 5

610 for me.

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Go Isabelle! :-)

Answer 6

I'm in, although I'm concentrating on developing some of my profiles this week. It's always nice to do some quick fixes like this.

Answer 7

Just saw this. Sounds like fun. concentrating on the 603, 633, 663 errors.

Answer 8

I'll start on 607's

Answer 9

I’ll work on some.

I was going to focus on my ancestors but with a degree in geography and 35 years in software development, the first 25 creating (underlying technology for) mapping software and GIS, this challenge is irresistible.

Answer 10

I'll work on the 633's

Answer 11

Started on the Wisconsin location errors.

Answer 12

Just got the challenge. I'm in.

Answer 13

I'll work on Scottish ones :-)

Answer 14

I'll get to some Louisiana ones.

Answer 15

SA Roots place names Corrections made

All done yea!!

Comments

Nice Work Ronel :-)

Answer 16

I am in on this challenge. I will start with the '601's'.

Answer 17

I shall participate. Thank you!

Answer 18

I am working on 641 (Death location in lowercase), 1800's, page 5.

Answer 19

I will do some as time permits this week.  Not sure what yet.

Answer 20

I'm in for this data doctor challenge