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Welcome to the Team GB-Gen Challenges page!
(Make sure you refer to it as Team GB-Gen - "Team GB" is actually a trademark covered by copyright!)

June 2018: Adapt to the days you can do.

If you can't make Saturday Sprints, why not try the Biography Builders, which started on 15th June and ends on 14th July? This has a theme per month (the current one is 'People born in the same city/town as you), and all the rules and suggestions are on the BB page. The following one will start on 15th July and finish on 14th August.

• One day; Saturday Sourcing Sprints - 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th
• One week: Data Doctors Challenge - weekly
• One month: BioBuilders Challenge note - this Challenge does not use the Challenge Tracker
• One month: Connectors Challenge
• One month: Sourcerers Challenge - 1st-30th of the month

This page is part of the Data Doctors Project.

 

Latest report: October 1st 2023.

Custom reports by: Suggestion lists, Unsourced lists, Unconnected lists.

See for custom reports and statistics and our Video Collection.

 

Latest ProjectBox Report: Project Report

Latest Categories Report: Categories Suggestions Report

What Do I Do? (extracts from various Challenge pages)

BioBuilder

Biography Builders Goal: To make profiles as complete as possible with well-written biographies and sources. You should research as much as you can find on a person, writing the information onto the profiles to create as complete a life story as you can for that person. Sourcing should be full citations. This includes adding categories and links to events and people connected to that profile and citing all those additions.

Connector

Pick any WikiTree profile which is not connected to the main tree. (In other words, that profile does not have a box at the bottom of the page, showing the degrees of separation.) Either add a new profile for a first degree relative (parent, spouse, sibling, or child) of the person on that profile, or else connect an existing profile on WikiTree to the profile you're working on. Add a source to the profiles involved in the connection showing the relationship between the two profiles.

Data Doctor

Investigate and fix database errors found by Aleš in his WikiTree+ data analyses. (A mini version of the Clean-a-Thon.)

Sourcerer, Saturday Sourcing Sprints

How to find an Unsourced Profile

By Country, then County

• England, Unsourced Profiles
• Scotland, Unsourced Profiles
• Wales, Unsourced Profiles
• Ireland, Unsourced Profiles

By Country, then Time Period

United Kingdom

Unsourced profiles for United Kingdom.

Table prepared at 03.10.2023 15:35:53 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Country is United Kingdom). Profiles: 24038

Scotland

Unsourced profiles for Scotland.

Table prepared at 03.10.2023 15:40:13 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Country is Scotland). Profiles: 708223

Ireland

Unsourced profiles for Ireland.

Table prepared at 03.10.2023 15:39:13 (Slovenian time). Condition to prepare list (Country is Ireland). Profiles: 638511 All profiles improved must come from the Unsourced categories or be already present on WikiTree and unsourced - you cannot create new profiles and add sources just to up your tally. The hope and goal is to improve the numbers already on WikiTree that need sources.

Select an Open (white) profile from anywhere in the category or one of its subcategories and search for sources to back up the facts of the person's life.

Valid sources include census records, BMD records/index references, military documents, land documents, wills, etc. A source cannot be another family tree, such as Geni or an Ancestry Member Tree.

If you find a valid source:

• Edit the profile to add the source, according to our Sources guide.
• Remove the {{Unsourced}} or [[Category:Unsourced Profiles]] categorization or categorizations, and save the profile.
• Update the status to have it counted. For more information, see below.
• If you don't find a source after searching, please add a Research Notes section to the profile. Say where you have looked and sign your comment with four tildes (~~~~) so it is dated. For example: "Looked for John in the US Census records for 1900-1940 and couldn't find him on FamilySearch or Ancestry." This way the next researcher knows where to start.

The BioBuilders Challenge has decided not to use the Challenge Tracker (the large green banner which appears when you have sourced a profile and save it). Participants are recording their efforts the way they used to i.e. when you have written a bio for a profile (and saved it) you go back to your answer on the BioBuilders thread and add it to your list (together with link back to the profile). The reason is that people like to go to the newly-bio'd profiles and read them, possibly getting new ideas for their own work.