Ask Aleš (July 2023)

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It's time for a new session of "Ask Aleš - What Do You Want To Know About WikiTree Plus?"

See you on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, 9:00am EDT aka 13:00 UTC. 

What questions do you have? You can ask by posting an answer below and your question will be answered on June 7. (It's OK if you don't watch live. The July video will remain on YouTube, like the June video.)

If you want to just watch, use this YouTube link.

Greg Clarke will be my co-host.

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Playlist of all #Ask_Aleš videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEqK4ICkQWXRdLaXhPTR9VrP6PNUhIx0D

Answer 1

If I have a one name study with sub categories am I able to use the map setting on wikitree+ to see where everyone lived? Example - https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Street_Name_Study

Answer 2

Where do I find the report that shows how many times a particular location is used and which profiles are using that location?

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This is the link to the report I was looking for.

https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=United%20States

Answer 3

I am running WikiTree Plus reports for my local cities and cleaning up profiles such as misspellings, invalid characters, and such.    Does this make me a data doctor?   And should I be posting somewhere that I'm doing this?     Thank you!   I'm having some fun cleaning up.

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No. You are not a data doctor unless you join the Data Doctor Project and then follow all the rules and regulations of the project.

No. You do not need to post anywhere that you are correcting typos on profiles.

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Thank you!

Answer 4

how do i get a WikiTree+ report for Suggestions (591 as an example) by Creator (not managed) Stevenson-3628?

i cannot figure it out

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You must first do a profile search for Creator_Stevenson-3628 and then search for suggestion in the results.

https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTWebAll/Suggestions.htm?Query=Creator_Stevenson-3628&MaxErrors=1000&ProfileSearch=1&ErrorID=591

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sorry, i do not understand.

is there a youtube video that breaks this down step by step? or even the first step.

i do not understand how i do a profile search for Creator first.

i technically didn’t want it for me, but didn’t want to call out the other PM. but, omg, i had 107 - 591 suggestions on profiles i have created .

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This is a two step process. First you have to find all profiles created by a user. So you search on WikiTree+ for Creator_Stevenson-3628 You can do that by clicking the link below and click the blue button Find Profiles

https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=Creator_Stevenson-3628

and on the found results, you have in heading a link to search for suggestions in the search result. see below.

Found: More than 500 profiles for Creator_Stevenson-3628 Showing first 500 profiles. Display results on WikiTree+ Map. Search for Suggestions on results.

And that should return all suggestions on the found profiles.

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Thank-you! I have copied this to my Scratch Pad for future use.

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it is so simple.  Thank-you!

Answer 5

I am trying to find profiles that I have added to a specific list of categories. My initial thought was to open the category and click "My Connection". Unfortunately, most of the profiles in question are not my relatives, nor even on my watchlist. So no Ancestors and Cousins are found. I imagine I am asking to search the list of profiles that I have contributed to that are in a category.

To give some context, as this weekend is ConnectAThon, I have been adding "XXX, Needs Profiles Created" categories over the last few weeks so that I could come back and find them easily. I work on different profiles, including random ones via my projects' weekly/monthly challenges. I am currently working backward through my contributions feed and adding any relevant profiles to my Extra Watchlist.

Thanks in advance,

David

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You can't search for recent edits of a person. So it is not possible.

You can see all "Needs profiles created" categories here

https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch5&Query=Needs+Profiles+Created

And if you hit the letter T at the end of the category link, you will get the timeline of addition to the category.

To search your managed profiles with the category use https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=Weinberg-577+CategoryWord%3D%22Needs+Profiles+Created%22

You can even search for profiles, that you created by https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=creator_Weinberg-577+CategoryWord%3D%22Needs+Profiles+Created%22

Or in your CC7 https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=CC7%3DWeinberg-577+CategoryWord%3D%22Needs+Profiles+Created%22

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Thank you that is very helpful. I think I have a long enough list of starting profiles to keep me going for the weekend.

Enjoy the 'Thon