Team Oz 2018 Clean-a-Thon Chat

Question

Is there a chat site for Team Oz 2018?

This is the team page link:  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Australia%27s_Official_Clean-a-Thon_Page
 

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Hi Everyone,

Before we start I do have a question - why is there such an emphasis on Find a Grave. I thought this was more an Ancestry site.  I have always used  Australian Cemeteries Index.

In asking that I was going to work on  Missing death location 561, all years.  BUT please note my new nickname is tangent, so who knows where I am going to end up.

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Hi Rionne,

I think there's a specific error code to Find-A-Grave entries, and that may explain the emphasis.  (Find-A-Grave was also recently acquired by Ancestry.com, IIRC... I guess they want to make it the go-to site for indexing cemeteries)

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I also don’t use Find-a-grave much, as many of my rellies died in WA I use http://www.mcb.wa.gov.au/

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Well done to all of Team Australia
We managed to correct a total of 1067 corrections.
Many thanks to you all for your efforts

To everyone around the world a big thankyou to you all with congrats to Team Roses for their effort

To anyone who chalked up massive numbers - go and get some sleep

Cheers Roger

Answer 1

Thanks very much for setting up this thread, Deborah!  I will let the organisers know so they can put it on the official page.

EDIT... nevermind, it's already done!  You guys are on top of things!  :-)

Answer 2

There is now Deborah

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Deborah, I'm afraid that the link that you have posted here loops back to this G2G question, rather than the promised chat page. Could you please try again?

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Hi John

This is the chat link - all we need to do is comment or reply on this link

Later today I will be contacting all team members with the link for the chat and the Aus errors link

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Hi Deborah, could you do us a favour?  Since you originally started the chat thread, could you edit the top post and put our team page link in the section where it says "WikiTree ID/URL if this relates to a person or free-space profile".   

That way, the chat link will appear on the team page and vice versa.

This is the team page link:  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Team_Australia%27s_Official_Clean-a-Thon_Page

Thanks very much!

Answer 3

Greetings to all volunteers of Team Australia for the Clean - a - Thon.

The Australia error list can be found here
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/DBE_ErrorList_AUS

The Team Oz chat link can be found here
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/595569/team-oz-2018-clean-a-thon-chat

May I suggest that you advise on the chat link which categories of error/years you will work on - saves members time if they come across errors already completed.
You may like to check your own error list first.

I will be online during Australian Central Daylight time hours for Saturday - Sunday - Monday and possibly evenings. Any queries feel free to contact me via private message

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Davey-570.

You can also use the chat page

Regards Roger Davey

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I will start on 811 Uncleaned profile after merge 1800-1899 - concentrating on South Australia and adding sources where required

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I’ll work on all the years 1500-1799 profiles.

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I will start on 'Biography' errors (800s excluding 811) and then move on to 'Location' errors (600s).

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I will work on the Find-A-Grave errors, starting with 571.

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Morning all in Australia

Many thanks for your work Saturday

We may not be big in numbers but profiles have less errors

Cheers Roger

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All S.A. 811 done - for a break starting on all 631

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Now doing 831 multiple duplicated lines

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John Rosser - well done on your 300 plus efforts and to all that made Wikitree cleaner thankyou for all your work. A few hours left to finish time.

Cheers Roger

Answer 4

For all team members information

Australian start times for Saturday 21st for the Clean-a-Thon are

Eastern States 2pm

South Australia & Northern Territory 1.30pm

Western Australia 12 noon

Finish times on Tuesday 24th

Eastern States 2pm

South Australia & Northern Territory 1.30pm

Western Australia 12 noon

Comments

Thank you so much, Roger for putting all the times together.  I have added them to the main team page also.

Answer 5

Congrats All. Don't forget to add your badge to your profiles.

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