Profile stickers and their Use
Profile Stickers are just a image posted in the Bios - just beneath the heading for Biography - to indicate your heritage.
During the end of last year there was a G2G discussion on projects removing managers and adding them to the TL minimizing the control and interaction with other family members.
An investigation into the working of projects and there operation was done and after some discussions the project operations were changed for the better of WikiTree member.
One of these decisions was that profiles that are regarded as younger profiles will not fall under projects management like in the past. [In SA Roots the cutoff date is 1906 as these are still duplicated frequently when new members join]
All the profiles after 1906 are regarded as younger profiles.
These younger profiles no longer carry the SA Roots Project box nor have the project on the Trusted List nor as Manager. The SA Roots needs categories are however still allowed.
You must have noticed that I was working on all these the last 3 days, removing project boxes removing SA Roots as Managers replacing project needs with category needs etc. and asking your help whenever I am not allowed to make the changes myself)
Some received many messages, and I am so sorry but this has been outstanding since end of last year, and I would like to get it done by May. :-D
The main objective is to have the profile managers take charge and care of these profiles themselves, source them, care for them and use them to help others to find their family, or others to find them and connect with their family.
More Information: The share to twitter and Facebook links also add extra benefits should you need to connect with family outside WikiTree and then off course cousin connect is marvelous.
With the project also as manager these connections often went astray as the family member would contact the SA Roots instead of the true managers, and although we posted it for the managers in the message box, it was not easy to connect with the sender.
To use the SA Root project as help rather as main caretaker we use the needs categories:
SA Roots categories which will place the need of any profile on a needs list that can be visited by anyone who feel compelled to help. Or you can visit the list yourself to see what still needs to be done to your own profiles.
Please note that the old needs system where we used {{-}} are replaced by [[-]] The first brackets added the project box automatically the last will add the category only. The keyword for these are the word category-.
This needs categories are listed on the help page of the SA Roots project and can be visited by everyone interested. This can also be pasted in a word document on your own computer and copy and pasted whenever and wherever applicable.
This is entirely up to the profile managers to use or not to use, just as adding the sticker or removing it is
With the switch over we asked the bod to replace the project box with a sticker as to not disregard the fact that the profile manager wanted to be part of the project, (otherwise he or she would not have put the project box onto the profile in the first instance). The manager can now decide to keep the sticker or not, add needs categories or not.
Giving the manager the freedom to decide the involvement of the project on profiles he or she manages.
Communication on these profiles also should not be a problem as you will receive all the messages via you personal WikiTree feed once a week, or by visiting "My WikiTree" every day.
Unfortunately with changes frustration are inevitable, but with lots of patience we will give the profile managers the freedom they have asked for and projects will fall more into the operational etiquette that the SA Roots project was intended for.
Please feel free to ask if anything is not clear.
Have fun and enjoy
