Challenge ideas

Profile manager: Steven Whitfield [send private message]

Favourite towns (Fran St. Just, Cornwall) I don't know if you have a particular place in England that you like working on. Mine is my home town of Warrington which now has 9,283 Wikitree profiles (Lancashire has over 310,000) Lancashire has over 7000 unsourced profiles which can be rather daunting; Warrington has 128 which I feel I can make a dent in. Lancashire has over 44000 unconnected profiles (!) Warrington has about 900 Lancashire has 11,800 suggestions; Warrington has 260 I was wondering of asking EP members what their 'favourite' town is and then seeing if we can set up a challenge around that.

Feb 2020 I did a "Go Green" challenge, where all the regions competed for a month to see whose numbers dropped the most, and the members who worked within the winning region were awarded stickers.

Carol's "Where was I born?" challenge that involved missing birth locations.

• Connecting big trees - I'd try to have an impact on the England unconnected figure in the month by focussing on the biggest trees and joining them to the main tree, passing on tips etc to members who aren't necessarily in the Connectors team but who want to learn new tricks, how and where to search for connections etc
• Unknowns (including 'easy pickings' - I have sent an email to Fran about this - there are quite a few unknowns where the LNAB has been identified but just need finishing off with the last bit of the process). I think we could have quite an impact on the Unknowns number.
• Gedcom bio cleanup - show people how to clean up messy Gedcoms (I think there are videos on this) and see how much we can impact on the suggestions codes that flag them

Sourcing - pick your favourite town/towns and add sources (show people how to use WIkitree+ to get at the info)

• Merge duplicates - identify and merge duplicates (where to look and how to go about sorting them out)
• Biobuilding - similar to your MPs challenge
• Grow your favourite town or village - chose a place and add as many sourced profiles as you can in the month (ideally all connnected to the main tree)
• Add profiles with your own surname - add as many sourced profiles as you can in the month (ideally all connnected to the main tree)
• Grow your CC7 score - how and where to look for opportunities to increase your CC7 score
• Locations challenges - where was I born? (looking at 'England' birth locations where we should be able to find a birth location)
• Poorly formatted locations (again)