Data Doctors Project Proudly Presents

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You asked and Data Doctors Project Productions is excited to announce the grand opening of our new theater!

Check the listings and view the collection: Data Doctors Project Video Collection

All videos are rated: WT – Recommended for all members of WikiTree working on suggestions with added content for Data Doctors.

And if you prefer binge-worthy watching – here is the digital playlist: The Complete Collection - Video Tutorials

Coming Soon: New releases will be announced in G2G and Data Doctors Google Group. Stay tuned.

Data Doctor Project Productions is thrilled to introduce our own Karen Hoy as our creative cinematic genius and taking on the roles of Executive Producer and Technical Consultant is our esteemed Team Leader, Aleš Trtnik.

Enjoy the shows and PM your friends and family [Living] to pass the word!

Feel free to leave your reviews suggestions for future features by clicking ANSWER to this post.

 

in The Tree House by Sheryl Moore G2G6 Pilot (208k points)
retagged by Ellen Smith
Very nicely done. Thank you.
Well worth the time invested!  Thanks Karen.
This is great!! Thanks!!

THIS.   IS.   GREAT!!! 

A very good feature. Thanks!
This will be very interesting and helpful to watch, I have popcorn ready, switch the phone off and settle down to watch tonight xxx
Your videos are so helpful, great job!
I love these!

There's not enough space or words to express thanks to all of you who've made these videos!!!!  I've learned so much about how to do things, do them correctly and efficiently.  

I even learned how to link to my NAV space so I don't have to wander all over looking for what I need.  WikiTree was good, now it's 1,000 times better.  Thank you, thank yousmiley

Thank you for your kind words, Kathy.  Karen Hoy is our creative genius.

If you are learning and enjoying the videos, please feel free to go to the Video Collection with links to the videos and more information.  Link is given above.

You might want to look at our related posts and new announcements are made on Fridays.

Thank you!

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+11 votes
 
Best answer
Yes! Yes! Yes!

Move aside Game of Thrones, there’s something else to binge watch now!
by Alex Stronach G2G6 Pilot (363k points)
selected by Sheryl Moore
Wow, Alex, that is quite the compliment.  Thank you so much.  Will let Karen know!
+13 votes
Clicking on "the Complete Collection" link makes Youtube say "Oops, there are invalid parameters."
by Jelena Eckstädt G2G Astronaut (1.4m points)
Hi, Jelena,

All links work now.  You must have been viewing at the time I was editing and replacing the link.

Please, my apologies if you thought I was saying you did something wrong.  I was trying to say was if you were trying to link at the same time I was editing, you would get that message because I was correcting the link.  I had no intention of blaming you as that was my edit - fixing a broken link.

Check back at your convenience.  Thank you for the notification also.
Thanks. I will check them later
+14 votes
This is a great idea, can't wait to watch the videos and see what they have to show.
by Dean Anderson G2G6 Pilot (774k points)
Thank you for responding and let us know what you think.  You are our 1st critic!
+15 votes

Great work!  And great voice!

Regrettably, I do have one correction.  In "Tag, You're It", beginning at the 1:00 point and at various times to the end, the term 'backslash' is used when it should be a 'forward slash'.  The slash in "</ref>" is a forward slash (an ascending line), on the same key as the question mark on most keyboards.  The backslash is the descending line usually above the Enter key.  A minor point but could be confusing for many.

Please don't take this as criticism, just an improvement for already great work.  And thank you for it!  (Edit: I forgot to double check the time of 1st backslash)

by Rob Jacobson G2G6 Pilot (136k points)
edited by Rob Jacobson
Thank you for your kind comments; I have passed them on to add to future production notes.  Great catch!

Thank you for responding.
Thank you Sheryl.  Note that Karen has just created another video today with several mentions of 'backslash' - the new "Suggestion 863" video.
Rob - Your comments have been taken to heart.  863, while published today, was already finished before your post...much to my regret.  However, going "forward", the slashes will be correctly identified.  

Thanks for helping to make this venture better.

Karen
If the word used was 'slash', that would probably be sufficient, since the 'other one' isn't used as often
You spoke, we listened and the suggestion "How-Tos" correct this.  The remake of Tag-You're It has been published.

Thank you again for this keen observation.
+10 votes
Another link on my Nav Home Page! Thanks for all the hard work, especially for folks like me who need all the help they can get.
by Pip Sheppard G2G Astronaut (2.7m points)
+11 votes
This is wonderful!  Besides the spot on content, I love the intro music tempo as that is the exact pace and feeling I have trying to correct all the mistakes I make! Good on you guys!
by Pamela Culy G2G6 Mach 3 (33.2k points)
Another goal reached; perfect!  That was carefully planned and executed by Karen.  Thank you for commenting it is very appreciated.
+7 votes
Thanks for sharing, Cheryl, and for creating, Karen. These are going to be great for sharing with my local SIG members and new WikiTree project members. One of the first things I suggest for anyone I work with is to review their suggestions reports. Being able to refer them to the videos when they have questions is going to save me an immense amount of typing. My fingers wish me to send a special thank you LOL
by Debi Hoag G2G6 Pilot (393k points)
Then we are accomplishing that goal.  These are the first of many, and please be patient and watch for announcements - there will be a video for each group and related individual videos on each suggestion.

As you can imagine, this takes some time, and we are working constantly to produce videos and publish pages.

We appreciate your feedback.

Best,

Sheryl
+8 votes

Perfect and perfectly on time for the Clean-A-Thon, Thank You!

by Lisa Linn G2G6 Mach 9 (90.4k points)
+8 votes
Great job Sheryl. Thank-you for all your efforts, much appreciated.
by Rodney Long G2G6 Pilot (849k points)
Please, proper credit for videos goes to Karen Hoy.  I did the posts and Video Collection page, so you are welcome for those.

It is a team effort always, and we are working hard to make suggestion errors more identifiable and easier for you to correct.

Suggestions welcome.
+6 votes
Great Job! These are so helpful!
by Azure Robinson G2G6 Pilot (539k points)
+5 votes
Great job! I've only watched the first two but am a bit less intimidated by WikiTree+ now!
by Emily Holmberg G2G6 Pilot (153k points)
+5 votes
Wow....  Thank you so much Ales, Karen and Sheryl for all of this very hard work.  It is greatly appreciated.  Wonderful presentation.
by Nicole Boorse G2G6 Pilot (884k points)
Many thanks, Nicole.  We are working hard to update pages, produce videos and make project improvements to help our Data Doctors in specific and all WT members help clean up the one-world tree.

Please feel free to leave suggestions or ideas in G2G with the tags Data Doctors, suggestions, videos and we will look at them for our future endeavors.
+4 votes
Thanks, good information and well produced
by Trevor Pickup G2G6 Mach 1 (16.9k points)
+4 votes

Wonderful ! 

Please add one for 868 Inline citations after <references /> tag. and is there some way all Wikitree profile managers etc can be made aware that these videos are there to help them. Stop the error before is begins.

I started on the Australian 868 list last week (total of 1256) this week it is down to  786 - I'm getting there and hopefully soon only the locked profiles will be left.

The total Wikitree  868 Inline citations after <references /> tag  for the Suggestion Report issued April 14 2019 is 33517

by Diane Darcy G2G6 Mach 2 (28.3k points)
Diane,

There will be videos for all suggestions - it is a long term process so please be patient.

The Reference Tags group as seen on the Data Doctors project page are being done first, we just published 861 today and working on the remaining 5.
Hi, Diane

Update- 868 should be out within the next 10-14 days. Thank you for the suggestion.

If you need help, please don't hesitate to post in G2G with the tags data doctor and suggestion 868 or email directly.
868 is in the playlist now.  Enjoy the show!
The 868 video is in the playlist.  Hopefully more of WT members will see these posts and view the videos.

Might help to tell other projects, or PM the PMs of profiles you have worked on to take a look here and hope that helps.
Thanks, I've already directed a few people to the Videos.  Thanks for all your help. I've completed all the Australian 868's except for the locked profiles -well the 868's for this week's Suggestion Report !!

I hope to keep the Australian reference Suggestion Report down to a minimum.
That's great, Diane!  Pass the word!
+6 votes
Wow is all I can say!  Really makes me want to be a Data Doctor & all I saw was the 1st video!  Oh wait, I am a Data Doctor!!  Now I feel much better!  Great work Sheryl Moore~you are the best!!
by Cindy Lesure G2G6 Pilot (126k points)

Thank you, Cindy - that is funny.  Are you twitching yet?wink

Please, proper credit for videos goes to Karen Hoy.  I did the posts and Video Collection page, so you are welcome for those.

It is a team effort always, and we are working hard to make suggestion errors more identifiable and easier for you to correct.

Suggestions welcome, and please feel free to offer suggestions on improvements either in email or G2G with tags data doctors and suggestions and improvements.

Let's see what you think when you binge them all!

+7 votes
Okay, I binge watched these and saw some things that I should be doing that I didn't know about or missed when I was reading instructions.  Hopefully from now on this will make me a much better data doctor.  

Great going y'all and I look forward to more of these videos.
by Paula Franklin G2G6 Pilot (105k points)
Wonderful to hear and thank you so much, Paula, for your feedback.

We will announce in the project and in G2G as videos are released as well as their partner revised suggestion help pages.
+4 votes
Thank you so much. I can't wait to see it. Once the kids are back to school.
by Mary Zabora G2G1 (2.0k points)
There are many, there are now 12, with the 13th loading as we speak.  Enjoy!
+4 votes
When you bring up the suggestion report that has a video link, Ales has added a link to the video.  Kudos to Ales for adding that.
by Linda Peterson G2G6 Pilot (763k points)
+6 votes
Can we please get plain text transcriptions in the comments for each of these videos to make them accessible to those who have any combination of visual/hearing/language barriers (permitting use of a screen reader, braille reader, translator, etc), or who have difficulty playing YouTube video content (internet speed and/or technical limitations are examples)?  This would be deeply appreciated.

Thank you.
by Kimberly Dekat G2G1 (1.9k points)
If it helps any, hitting the CC button in youtube brings up a text based subtitle for it. This won't help with youtube trouble but might help with the rest.
Hi, Kimberly,

We can certainly research this and add a transcript within WikiTree pages or provide otherwise depending on the best way to do so.

Please give us a little time to do this, noting that it will be after Clean-A-Thon to start.

Thank you for your patience and question as it is very helpful to us in improving documentation and support within the project and WikiTree as a whole.
That is a lovely thought, Steven, but it unfortunately has a downside.  Unless the video poster has manually reviewed and corrected the close captioning, that function within YouTube is entirely automated and produces some highly questionable output.  Sometimes this is OK - other times, it is not.  You can see an example of this in the first 30 seconds of the ten minute 'Suggestions Report' video, which has automatically generated closed captioning.

In addition, YouTube CC is not particularly accessible to screen readers or translation software, as again, unless it has been edited, it typically lacks any form of coherency in regards to use of punctuation.  This is why a text transcription posted to the comments was requested.  That is typically less work for a video poster than editing the closed captioning, as it does not have to be synchronized to the video feed.  It can also be more screen-reader friendly, as scrolling text can play poorly with screen readers (especially braille readers).

This subject is of a special interest to me, as I have family, friends, and coworkers with varying degrees of visual and hearing impairments, so I prefer to raise the question on their behalf since so few people inherently think of this population when designing a new item - but they are just as interested (often more so!) in genealogical research as someone who has typical visual/auditory function.
Thank you, Sheryl!  I would certainly not demand this as the first thing to be done, and the overall community improvement from these videos is fantastic - keep up the great work.  I appreciate the willingness to add the transcripts as time is available, and the immediately positive stance toward including all genealogists in our community.  That is a very heartwarming item; I cannot count how many times people have responded to such requests with dismissive or disbelieving statements.
Hi, Kimberly,

First,  thank you for asking a valid question about an improvement which would include even more members in the one-world shared tree.  You brought up something we had not thought of and that is especially helpful now.

Second, time is not the issue; we need to see if it can be done, and I have already addressed that question to our PC team.  Then we have to see how to do that efficiently and that would require some workflow, etc.   We will do whatever we can as quickly as possible.

Third, WT is a collaborative one-world shared tree.  I do understand that sometimes suggestions made with good intention to benefit all have been dismissed and/or disregarded. in the past and that is concerning.

That said, the videos are being made and suggestion pages updated to accommodate all WikiTree members, with "added content" for Data Doctors.  What you have done is ask us to consider another service we can provide to help more in our community.

Please send us your comments/suggestions any time and we will do our best to research and provide solutions ASAP and keep you updated.

Good Luck for CAT!
Hi, Kimberly,

Did you know YouTube does have a transcript option in the video selection?

Below the video, you have the title on the left then moving to the right a SAVE and then SHARE.  Next to share, there are 3 dots and if you click on the 3 dots, you have options and one is for OPEN TRANSCRIPT which highlights the text along with the video.

It is not perfect and working on corrections, but the transcript option is there.

Is this what you had in mind?
Sheryl,

The transcript shown there is generated through the Closed Caption process (it is literally whatever is show when CC is turned on, with a timestamp notation available to indicate where the text aligns with the video rendering), so it is subject to the same comments I made to Steven prior regarding the CC feature.  It is somewhat helpful when automatically generated, but it tends to be very difficult to utilize unless extensively edited by the person who posted the video.
+4 votes

WOW These are fantastic, thank you so much for creating these videos. Now I will feel like I know what I am doing. laugh

by Dallace Moore G2G6 Pilot (154k points)
Hi,

We appreciate your comments; so happy they helped.

Please pass the word if you'd like.  We want all WT members to benefit.

Many thanks.

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