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The Quakers Challenge is a challenge to encourage the improvement of anything related to the Quakers Project on WikiTree.
There will be a different challenge each month. See the current month's information.
The Quakers Project will be the real winner of our event. One or more participants have the opportunity to receive the Project Challenge Winner Badge, depending on the theme for the month.
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Current Challenge
- Member's Name improved Quaker profiles in the October 2018 Challenge to "clear the Quakers category"
Upcoming Challenges
- November 2018 - Clean up Quakers Sticker locations - should be below ==Biography== heading
Past Challenges
- February 2018 - Nassawaddox, Virginia
- March 2018 - Primp Project Managed bios (M or PPP in status column)
- April 2018 - add Quakers Project account to trusted lists
- May 2018 - skipped while preparing for GDPR compliance
- June 2018 - primp biographies of Quakers alive in the 1800s
- July 2018 - add Quakers Sticker
- August 2018 - source non-project managed profiles
- September 2018 - clear Quakers category
Other Challenge Ideas
- primp biographies based on a theme (location, time period, notables, etc)
- focus on a specific location for improvements (by country as the project is worldwide)
- find and adopt pre-1800 orphaned profiles
- source project managed profiles
- source non-project managed profiles
- add monthly meeting categories
- add burial categories
- create free space pages for Monthly Meetings
- Quakers in space and/or "Quakers in ..." space pages
- adding monthly meeting categories (to profiles, to WikiTree by creating categories and/or space pages, to the "Quakers in ..." pages)
- additional options can be found on the Project task list
Requested Challenges
Location
- Category: Somerset Monthly Meeting, Somerset County, Maryland - Gurney Thompson
- Category: Third Haven Monthly Meeting, Easton, Maryland - Gurney Thompson
- Category: Nantucket_Island_Quakers, Massachusetts - Darlene Athey-Hill
- Category: Deep River Monthly Meeting, High Point, North Carolina - Darlene Athey-Hill
- Category: Solebury Monthly Meeting, New Hope, Pennsylvania - Howard Rankin
- Category: Newport Monthly Meeting, Newport, Rhode Island - Sue Hall
- No category for Portsmouth, Rhode Island - Sue Hall
- Quaker founders of Germantown, Pennsylvania (includes Daniel Pastorius, the first Germans immigrants to America) - Allen McGrew
- Quakers in the Welsh Tract (perhaps also including Gwynedd) - Allen McGrew
- Irish Quaker Immigrants to America - Allen McGrew
Time
- Quakers and Religious Freedom in America - Allen McGrew
- Quaker missionaries on the Speedwell (1656) and the Woodhouse (1657), including the "Quaker Martyrs" - Allen McGrew
- The Signers of the Flushing Remonstrance - Allen McGrew
- Quakers and Women's Rights -- (Many of the leaders of the Suffrage movement were Quaker) - Allen McGrew
- Quakers and Abolitionism (Quakers who were active in the underground railroad or abolition movements) - Allen McGrew
- Quakers and the Origins of American governance -- esp. Quakers who were instrumental in the drafting of the Pennsylvania Frames of Governance, but also perhaps subsequent participants in the political process. - Allen McGrew
Notables
- Quaker Ancestors of the Presidents. - Allen McGrew
Tracking Results
- Quakers Project Challenge (October 2018) Oct 3, 2018.
- Quakers Project Challenge (August 2018) Aug 1, 2018.
- Quakers Project Challenge (July 2018) Jul 4, 2018.
- Quakers Project Challenge (June 2018) Jun 5, 2018.
- Quakers Project Challenge (April 2018) Apr 1, 2018.
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I don't believe we should wait too long. The process of renaming categories is going to take time, and Bot can easily move the profiles once this is settled.
Bob Gaesser