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US Black Heritage Project Weekend Sprints

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The goal of weekend sprints is for all of WikiTree to work together to meet specific goals in a short amount of time that will help the US Black Heritage Project. Each sprint will have different tasks and desired outcomes. Individual scores will not be kept. Instead, before and after statistics will be compared to see the total result of the sprint. Go Team!

Each sprint will start on Friday morning whenever you would like to begin and end Sunday evening at midnight, US Eastern time zone.


Contents

Clean Up Sprints

January 5-7 Data Doctor Suggestions

Goal: To clear Data Doctor suggestions for USBH notables and profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Please read the help page about clearing suggestions before starting.
Before: 18,381
After: 17,692 (689 cleaned!)

March 22-24 Oldest Needs Sources

Goal: To source the profiles that have been in the Needs Sources category the longest. How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint post. Please read the instructions. Before: 2021: 243, 2022: 3359, 2023: 12,318 After: 2021: 166, 2022: 3338, 2023: 12,207

April 25-27 Spring Cleaning "Family Tree Size One"

Goal: To work together to add family members to our lonely single profiles.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint post. Add profiles for family members of profiles in the :US Black Heritage Project, Family Tree Size One category.
Before: 5969 profiles need family added
After: 5876 (93 profiles are lonely no more!)

May 24-27 Memorial Day Sprint: Military stickers & 5th US Colored Infantry

Before: 1,427 need stickers
After: Stickers added to 137 profiles
  • Goal 2: Create profiles for the remaining members of the Civil War's 5th US Colored Infantry who died in service. Add profiles for other members of Company A if we finish those who died in service.
Before: 101 soldiers need profiles
After: Profiles created for 30 soldiers and 96 family members

June 7-9 Data Doctor Suggestions

Goal: To clear Data Doctor suggestions for USBH notables and profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Please read the help page about clearing suggestions before starting.
Before: 19,462
After: 18,661 - 801 suggestions cleared!

July 5-7 Birth Locations & Basic Categories

Goal: Add missing birthplaces and basic categories to orphaned profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
  • How: Post an answer on the weekend sprint . Follow instructions there.
  • Before: 1,613 profiles that need a birth location & basic categories
  • After: 1,172 profiles that need a birth location and categories - birthplace & categories were added to 441 profiles

August 16-18 Needs Sources

Goal: Add missing sources to profiles in the US Black Heritage Project, Needs Sources category. Focus on profiles created in 2014 earlier.
How: Read the instructions on the post and post an answer there to let us know you'll be participating.
Before: 302 pre-2015 profiles and 58,395 total profiles in the Needs Sources category
After: 71 pre-2015 profiles sourced; 1,026 total profiles sourced

September 6-8th: Data Doctor Suggestions

Goal: To clear Data Doctor suggestions for USBH notables and profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
How: See post for directions
Before: 20,216 suggestions
After:

Creation Sprints

January: Connect-a-thon

January's Connect-a-thon will take the place of the creation sprint for the month.

April: Connect-a-thon

April's Connect-a-thon will take the place of the creation sprint for the month.

May 10-12: Revisiting old sprints

Goal: revisit 5 old sprint tasks and get them to 100% completion. Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint post.

June 19-23: Juneteenth

Goal: Honor the birthplace of Juneteenth (Galveston, Texas) by creating profiles from Galveston County, Texas from the 1880 census.
Before: 109 of 5,503 profiles for Galveston County have been created.
After: 1,313 of 5,503 profiles for Galveston County have been created. 1,204 profiles were created during this sprint.

July: Connect-a-thon

July's Connect-a-thon will take the place of the creation sprint for the month.

August 2-4: Connecting 1936 Olympic Athletes

Goal: Connect and improve the CC7 of the profiles of 18 Olympic athletes from the 1936 Olympics: see African American Athletes - 1936 Summer Olympics page
How: Go to the post to find instructions and a list of athletes that need to be connected.
Before: 4 of 18 connected
After:

September 20-22nd: 1880 Census - One County Per State

Goal: Complete one county per state for the 1880 Census Project. Two counties/states remain: Pickens County, South Carolina and Sussex County, Delaware.
How: Create remaining profiles needed for these two counties - see directions on first tab of each spreadsheet.
Before:
After:

Combined Clean-up/Creation Sprints

FAQs

  • When do the sprints start and end?
    • Friday morning any time you would like until Sunday, midnight, US Eastern time zone. We will have each sprint scheduled ahead of time, so check back for the dates of the next sprint.
  • Do I have to be a USBH project member to participate?
    • No. These sprints are open to any WikiTree member who has signed the honor code. If you aren't a member of the project, please read any referenced help pages before starting.
  • How much do I need to do?
    • As much as you can! Every little bit adds up together to help us meet our goal.
  • Am I expected to work all weekend like a WikiTree thon?
    • Nope. Just help when you can.

2023 Sprint Archive

January 27-29 Cemeteries

Goal: To complete all the USBH cemeteries that are currently 50%+ finished. (secondary goal of completing 331 profiles of New Hill Cemetery, Caddo Parish, LA)
How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint . Access this spreadsheet for a list of linked memorials. Then begin creating profiles!
Before: 296 profiles need to be created
After: 100% of the cemeteries have been completed! New Hill Cemetery: 118 out of 331 completed.

February 10-12 Comedians

Goal: To improve the profiles and family profiles for the comedians listed on the sprint spreadsheet.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint .
Before: 153 profiles needing improvement
After: All the comedians and their families got attention and many of the profiles were completed! Almost all of these comedians now have the Platinum status checklist completed!

February 24-26 Notables

Goal: To create as many new notable profiles as we can in one weekend.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint
After: We created 107 new profiles!

March 10-12 Spring Cleaning Sources

Goal: Source profiles from both the USBH Unsourced and the Needs Sources categories
How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Then begin searching for sources. Please add all sources you can find for that profile before moving on.
Before: 232 unsourced, 5504 needs more sources
After: 152 unsourced, 5425 needs more sources

March 24-26 Spring Cleaning "Family Tree Size One"

Goal: To work together to add family members to our lonely single profiles.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint . Add profiles for family members of profiles in the :US Black Heritage Project, Family Tree Size One category.
After: 900 people. Amazing!

April 7-9 Spring Cleaning Data Doctor Suggestions

Goal: To clear Data Doctor suggestions for USBH notables and profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Please read the help page about clearing suggestions before starting.
Before:
After: 2216 suggestions cleared

May 12-14 Adding Military Stickers

Goal: To add military stickers to profiles in the maintenance category "US Black Heritage Project, Needs Military Sticker" in honor of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Then choose a profile in category "US Black Heritage Project, Needs Military Sticker" and add the appropriate military sticker(s) based on their military service. Carefully read/follow the directions for the military sticker(s) you're using before saving. See the post for more detailed instructions.
Before: 542 profiles need stickers
After: 236 profiles need stickers - 306 profiles stickered!

May 26th-29th: Memorial Day 5th USCI

Goal: Create profiles for soldiers from the 5th Regiment of the US Colored Infantry who died while serving in the Civil War.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint to sign up. Add profiles for soldiers listed on the sprint's spreadsheet.
Before: 264 soldiers of the 5th USCI who died during military service; 4 have profiles
After: 264 soldiers of the 5th USCI who died during military service; 163 have profiles identified now. That's 159 soldier profiles created or identified and 101 family member profiles created during the sprint!

June 9-11 Add Parent Profiles

Goal: This sprint falls between Mother's Day and Father's Day, so we'd like to add parent profiles to profiles with no parents linked.
How: Sign up and find instructions on the post.

June 23-25 Missing Birth Locations

Goal: Add birth locations to profiles that are missing a birth location.
How: Sign up and find details on .
Before: 7677 profiles missing birth locations
After: 6409 profiles - 1268 completed!

July 28-30 Needs Biography

Goal: Clean-up the Needs Biography maintenance category by adding biographies or removing category from profiles that don't need it.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend clean up sprint . Write biographies for each profile in the category, then remove that category from the profile.
Before: 2273
After: 1859 (414 improved!)

August 11-13 Needs Sources

Goal: Clean-up the Needs Sources maintenance category by adding sources to profiles.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend clean up sprint . Source, source, source!
Before: 203 unsourced, 9656 needs more sources
After:

September 8-10 Data Doctor Suggestions

Goal: To clear Data Doctor suggestions for USBH notables and profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Please read the help page about clearing suggestions before starting.
Before: 17,955
After:

September 22-24 Cemeteries

Goal: To complete all the USBH cemeteries that are currently 50%+ finished. (secondary goal of completing the New Hill Cemetery in Caddo Parish, LA that we started in January)
How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint . Access this spreadsheet for a list of linked memorials. Then begin creating profiles!
Before: 617 profiles need to be created
After:

October 13-15 Needs Sources

Goal: Clean-up the Needs Sources maintenance category by adding sources to profiles.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend clean up sprint {{G2GLink|1648888} Source, source, source!
Before: 196 unsourced, 10,801 needs more sources
After:

October 27th-29th 1880 Census for Western States

Goal: Add families from the 1880 census from nine states where we have very low coverage of African Americans on WikiTree. The states we'll be working on are: Nevada, Dakota Territories, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Washington.
How: Post an answer on the post to sign up. Then choose a family from the spreadsheet to create profiles for.
Before: 3490 profiles need creation (this number is slightly inflated due to incorrect enumeration of some Latin American families. See directions for more info.--especially for New Mexico.)
After:

November 10th-12th: Veterans Day Sprint

Goal #1 (Cleanup): Honor African American military veterans by adding military stickers to their profiles.
Before:
After:
Goal#2 (Creation): Create profiles for the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion and the Tuskegee Airmen from World War II.
Before:
After:

December 8-10 Home for the Holidays

Goal #1 (Cleanup): To continue adding birth locations to profiles with the African-American sticker.
Before:
After:
Goal #2 (Creation): To add family to our single profiles from the USBH Family Tree Size One category.
Before:
After:

2022 Sprint Archive

September 23-25 Birth Locations

WikiTree+ report Click the "Get Profiles" button for the report to appear.

Goal: Add missing birth locations to profiles with the African-American sticker
How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint post and declare which pages on the report you will be working from. See the post for more information.
Before: 9594 profiles missing birth locations (as of Sept 18)
After: 6994 (as of October 2)

October 14-16 Sources

Goal: Source profiles from both the USBH Unsourced and the Needs Sources categories
How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Then begin searching for sources. Please add all sources you can find for that profile before moving on.
Before: 251 Unsourced, 2960, Needs Sources
After: 199 Unsourced 2901 Needs Sources (as of Oct 16)

October 28-30 Cemeteries

Goal: To create profiles for people laid to rest at both Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery and Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery in Fairfax County, Virginia.
How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint . Access thisspreadsheet for a list of linked memorials. Then begin creating profiles!
Before: 26 out of 364 profiles
After: 100% completed!

November 11-13 Military Stickers and Family

There will be a combined clean up and creation sprint for this month

Goal #1: To add military stickers to profiles from the Needs Military Sticker category.
Goal #2: To add immediate family (or more) to Tuskegee Airmen profiles. These will also count toward the November Connecting Challenge.
Goal#1
Before: 318 veterans needing stickers After: 130
Goal #2
Before: 106 profiles needing family added After: 79
Plus: 7 new Airmen profiles created!

December 9-11 Home For the Holidays

There will be a combined clean up and creation sprint for this month

Goal #1: To continue adding birth locations to profiles with the African-American sticker.
Goal #2: To add family to our single profiles from the USBH Family Tree Size One category.
Goal #1
Before: 6381 After: 6209
Goal #2
Before: 810 After: 687




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