Saturday Sourcing Sprints are weekly, one-day challenges for adding sources to unsourced profiles already present on WikiTree. They're fun and casual mini-versions of our annual Source-a-Thon, complete with stickers or badges for registered winners.
Reporting consists of 4 primary tasks:
- Add Weekly Invitation post to G2G by 9 AM EST (or 2 PM WikiTree Time, UTC)
- Subject Heading should be in the following format "Saturday Sourcing Sprint (dd Month YYYY)" where the "dd Month YYYY" is replaced with the actual day of the Sprint.
- Category selected should be "TreeHouse."
- Add the following tags under Surnames/Tags: sourcing_sprints challenges unsourced_profiles sources sourcerers
- Copy the Saturday Sourcing Sprints- G2G Post template into the question text box
- Once you see the template text in the text box, place cursor immediately after the greeting of "Hello WikiTreers."
- Click on the "add image" icon (It looks like a box with a dot in the upper left corner and mountains).
- Paste the following in the URL field: http:// www.wikitree.com/photo.php/7/79/Social_Media_Collection-19.png (remove the space between "//" and "www")
- Change the "Alignment" to "Right" and click OK and then click Save Changes. This will Post to G2G.
- IMPORTANT once you see your post, you must make a note of the post NUMBER! This can be found by looking at the URL in the address bar after the /g2g/ but before/saturday-sourcing-sprint-<date>
- Adding new link on the Calendar Saturday Sourcing Sprints page to the Tracker.
- Click Edit,
- Paste the following: <Calendar Event|display=|name=Saturday Sourcing Sprint|page=Help:Saturday_Sourcing_Sprints|tracking= All|length=2 days|start=YYYY-MM-DD 12:00:00|g2g= #######|fsp=|hints=> after the 2024 Heading, replacing the carat "<>" with "{{}}"
- Replace the start= date with date of current date (this will be whatever the date is on the Friday in YYYY-MM-DD and replace the ####### after g2g= with whatever the post number was.
- Monitoring the G2G post and responding to any posts or questions.
- Update the Saturday Sprint Stats based on the Tracker report and award the top Sprint Sourcerer sticker.