WikiGames

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What are the WikiGames?

The WikiGames are a four-day, four-event race for the gold! The overall goal of the event is to support our mission to grow and improve our single-family tree as well as increase the number of connections.

2024

This year our WikiGames will take place over two weekends, with two events taking place each weekend. Each event will start at 8pm EDT (1am UTC/10am AEST) The schedule is as follows:

• August 23 - Sourcing Slalom
• August 24 - Date Diving
• August 30- Cross-Country Connecting
• August 31- Long-Distance Locating

Each event has three heats that run for 10 hours each. When you register, you'll sign up for a specific heat for all the events. The starting heat times are:

• Heat I: (8pm EDT/1am UTC/10am AEST)
• Heat II: (2am EDT/7am UTC/4pm AEST)
• Heat III: (8am EDT/1pm UTC/10pm AEST)

All details are listed below but if you are ready to have fun, go for the gold and improve our tree, register now!

Registration

To participate in the WikiGames, you need to register in advance.

Registration is free, like everything on WikiTree.

If you're not already a WikiTree member, join before registering, proceed through the quick steps, and sign the Honor Code. Then simply post an answer here: . Include the following details so we can assign you to the appropriate team:

• Which heat would you like to participate in? (Note: you'll be assigned the same heat for all four events. Each heat lasts for 10 hours.)
  • Heat I: (8pm EDT/1am UTC/10am AEST)
  • Heat II: (2am EDT/7am UTC/4pm AEST)
  • Heat III: (8am EDT/1pm UTC/10pm AEST)

• How do you prefer to communicate?
  • Discord
  • G2G

Registration will run from (TBD).

I have registered, what's next?

Once you've received your team assignment, participate in the team zoom get to know your team members and coordinate.

Next, join us on YouTube (TBD) for our Opening Ceremony. Read more about participation below.

You can also add this participation sticker to your profile:

Markup	Sticker
{{Community Event|image=WikiGames-15.png|text=competed|event=2023 WikiGames}}	... ... ... competed in the 2024 WikiGames.

How to Participate

Each event has its own participation instructions and will run for 12 hours with a one-hour break in between.

Event 1 - Sourcing Slalom

If you've participated in one of our Source-a-Thons, this event is just like it.

The goal of this event is to remove profiles from the Unsourced Profiles category or profiles already present on WikiTree and unsourced. They cannot be new profiles that you create. For the purposes of this event, unsourced means there are no sources listed at all.

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 user-generated family tree, such as Geni or an Ancestry Member Tree.

When you find a source:

1. Edit the profile to add the source, according to our Sources guide.
2. Remove the {{Unsourced}} Research Note Box tag.
3. Save the profile and click the Challenge Tracker button.
4. On the Challenge Tracker, select the WikiGames checkbox.

If you don't find a source after searching, consider adding Research Notes saying where you looked. 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.

Event 2 - Date Diving

If you have participated in the Friday Date Night, this will be just like that!

Choose from the following categories on WikiTree+ (don't forget to click "find suggestions" to generate the report):

• (131) No Dates - No Dates on relatives - Open - Unknown Status | Report | Instructions
• (132) No Dates - No Dates on relatives - Open - Status Died | Report | Instructions
• (133) No Dates - Dates on relatives - Open - Unknown Status | Report | Instructions
• (134) No Dates - Dates on relatives - Open - Status Died | Report | Instructions

Event 3 - Cross-Country Connecting

If you've participated in one of our Connect-a-Thons, this event is just like it.

The goal of this event is to connect more people on WikiTree by adding missing relatives.

Scores are tracked automatically. You do not need to use the "challenge tracker" or manually keep track of how many profiles you add.

Our system counts the number of non-living family members you add. Often these will be "collateral" relatives that members neglected to add when adding their family tree.

All profiles must have at least one valid source.

Creating any new profile counts as one point, with just two exceptions:

1. If you create a profile with no relationship to any other profile, it does not count.
2. If you create a profile for a living person, it does not count.

For example:

• Create person A with Add an Unrelated Person: 0 points.
• Create person B as the spouse of person A: 1 point.
• Create person C as the child of person A: 1 point.
• Create person D as the parent of person B: 1 point.

See here for ideas for where to work from.

Event 4 - Long-Distance Locating

This year we started the Locators Challenge! This will be just like that!

Modify a search below to get profiles from a specific country or region (state, province, county etc.). These searches include the country or region in the marriage and/or death location

Country: country=Canada open 1870 - 1899

Region: region=Washington open 1870 - 1899

These searches look for the name of the country or region somewhere other than a properly formatted location (city, region, country all separated by commas).
Note: results can include people with the place as a name.

Country: Canada open birthlocation=missinglocation 1890s not 1880s not country=Canada

Region: Maryland open birthlocation=missinglocation 1890s not 1880s not region=Maryland

If you want a big challenge, try these profiles with no locations in them

Teams

After registration ends, teams will be assigned by the WikiTree Events Committee. Hopefully you can get to know some new people in our community!

Participants will be notified of their teams the Monday before the WikiGames begins after the Opening Ceremony.

Team List

• Aspiring Aspens
• Brilliant Birches
• Super Cedars
• Charming Chestnuts
• Collaborative Conifers
• Exquisite Elms
• Fantastic Firs
• Glorious Gingkos
• Heavenly Hemlocks
• Magnificent Magnolias
• Marvelous Maples
• Pensive Pines
• Popular Poplars
• Remarkable Redwoods
• Wonderful Willows

Tracking

Unlike other big community events, WikiGames will not have a live leaderboard so that the awards will be a surprise!

Winners will be announced in our closing ceremony on Monday, August 28th, at 8am EDT/Noon UTC.

Winners

There will be the following opportunties for individuals and teams to wins:

• Individual bronze, silver and gold medals for the top three scorers in the Sourcing Slalom, Cross-Country Connecting, Date Diving and Long-Distance Locatting events.
• Team bronze, silver and gold medals for the top three teams in all four events.
• Team bronze, silver and gold medals for the top three overall teams.

There will be special stickers for the individual and team winners.

You can check out this highlights post to find the winners and all the stats from the event.

LiveCast Schedule

August 23/24 - Opening Ceremony/Sourcing Slalom

• Opening Ceremony/Heat I Kickoff (7:45pm EDT/12:45am UTC/9:45am AEST)
• Heat II Kickoff (2am EDT/7am UTC/4pm AEST)
• Heat III Kickoff (8am EDT/1pm UTC/10pm AEST)
• Almost there (2pm EDT/7pm UTC/4am AEST)
• Winner Ceremony (6pm EDT/11pm UTC/8am AEST)

August 24/25 - Date Diving

• Heat I Kickoff (7:45pm EDT/12:45am UTC/9:45am AEST)
• Heat II Kickoff (2am EDT/7am UTC/4pm AEST)
• Heat III Kickoff (8am EDT/1pm UTC/10pm AEST)
• Almost there (2pm EDT/7pm UTC/4am AEST)
• Winner Ceremony (6pm EDT/11pm UTC/8am AEST)

August 30/31 - Cross-Country Connecting

• Heat I Kickoff (7:45pm EDT/12:45am UTC/9:45am AEST)
• Heat II Kickoff (2am EDT/7am UTC/4pm AEST)
• Heat III Kickoff (8am EDT/1pm UTC/10pm AEST)
• Almost there (2pm EDT/7pm UTC/4am AEST)
• Winner Ceremony (6pm EDT/11pm UTC/8am AEST)

August 31/September 1 - Long-Distance Locating/Closing Ceremony

• Heat I Kickoff (7:45pm EDT/12:45am UTC/9:45am AEST)
• Heat II Kickoff (2am EDT/7am UTC/4pm AEST)
• Heat III Kickoff (8am EDT/1pm UTC/10pm AEST)
• Almost there (2pm EDT/7pm UTC/4am AEST)
• Winner Ceremony (6pm EDT/11pm UTC/8am AEST)
• Closing Ceremony (7pm EDT/12am UTC/9am AEST)