Do you want to help a fellow WikiTreer increase their CC7 in our February We Will RAWK You event?

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Do you want to help a fellow WikiTreer increase their CC7?

The We Will RAWK You event is returning in 2024!  RAWK stands for Random Acts of WikiTreer Kindness.  It's a lot like the WikiTree Challenge except that our goal is to work on the branches of five fellow WikiTree members.

To date we have had five We Will RAWK You events and each had produced wonderful growth in the CC7s of 25 WikiTreers (5 per event), thanks to the zealous team of RAWKERS.  Join us for the first We Will RAWK You event of 2024!  What genealogical generosity will we be able to bestow on 5 more WikiTreers? 

How it works:

A month before each of these events, we will put out a call in G2G for RAWK nominations. This is your opportunity to nominate another WikiTreer to be a potential participant in the We Will RAWK You Event.

After nominations close, The WikiTree Events Committee will randomly pick 5 of the nominated WikiTreers who will then get to be RAWKED. 

A month prior to each event, we will also put out a call in G2G for RAWKERS, WikiTreers who would like to help work on the lines of the 5 participants.  That's what this post is for!

On the 1st of February, we'll kick off the next We Will RAWK You Event. Everyone who signed up to help with research will have one month to work to see how much they can increase the CC7 numbers for the five nominated WikiTreers.

There are stickers for those who are RAWKED and for the RAWKERS.

Note: Members of the WikiTree Team are not eligible for nomination.

Please click ANSWER to this G2G post by January 31, 2024 if you'd like to be part of the RAWKERS team for February.  

If you'd like to nominate someone to be RAWKED, please post an answer HERE

WikiTree profile: Space:We_Will_RAWK_You_Event
in The Tree House by Betsy Ko G2G6 Pilot (146k points)

32 Answers

+15 votes
I will try and help.
by Liza Gervais G2G6 Pilot (395k points)

First to sign up; I love it, Liza!  heart

+14 votes
Count me in!
by Jeffrey Wall G2G6 Mach 6 (66.3k points)
Fantastic; welcome back, Jeffrey!
+15 votes
I will join and see what I can do again :)

Steph
by Stephanie Hill G2G6 Mach 4 (46.9k points)
Great to have you on the team again, Steph!
+11 votes
I don't quite get the point. Is having a higher CC7 the Key Performance Indicator of Wikitree?

I've got my tree connected pretty far back, but left a whole bunch of 20th century relatives out, to respect their privacy.  The easiest way to increase my CC7 would be to add them .. which I am still rather careful about.

I've also put energy into linking slave registers to profiles, and listing the slaves .. even though there is not enough to turn them into full profiles.  Those don't count for my CC7. And I don't care.

I've also started creating profiles of 'notable' people from early times, if they are missing on wikitree. But as those are unconnected to your own tree, they don't 'count'.  No problem.

I'm currently very interested in a historical Slave Revolt at the Houd-Den-Beck farm, in 1825 (and an Andre Brink Book).  I created a category, and a space page, and am now finding all people connected in some way to that event.  The slave registers help with this, sometimes, as I found nearly all the slave rebels.  I'm now going through farm survey diagrams, which help figure out which people were living on farms near to Houd-Den-Beck, in 1825.  None of this helps my CC7, as I'm spending time on people that were mostly not my ancestors. But should I care?

A nice competititive spirit and gamification around getting a counter to increase: it can be fun.  But gamification can help turn any KPI into a drug. Always look out when Key Performance Indicators become too important, or even dominant.  Never forget to think, and choose your own set of things to pursue.

Let's realise, that all those social media are all about manipulating people and companies with key performance indicators, usually the wrong ones.  I'm happy that Wikitree is not like that.

Sorry, had to say it. Everybody is allowed some fun and games. But take care :-)
by NC Brummer G2G6 Mach 1 (16.1k points)
Hello NC,

Thanks for your very thoughtful response and thoughts on how we use CC7 as motivation on WikiTree.  You articulated some very important points.

When we talked about how to celebrate WikiTree's 15th anniversary in 2023, a significant number of people wanted to include activities that gave back to others in some way.  The Events Committee discussed several options and settled on the RAWK challenge, hopefully a recognizable riff on "Random Acts of Kindness", as the event we would pursue.  Our past and ongoing WikiTree Challenges tend to focus on notable individuals and we wanted to lend a hand to the every day WikiTreer whose branches were small whether from lack of time, brick walls requiring special expertise, or some other reason.

It's true that RAWK is structured with CC7 as a metric and our teams certainly do celebrate that throughout the month as we work on each person's set of family lines.  But as far as I've witnessed in our Discord channel and Zoom research parties, we're always focused on helping others strengthen their ties to the overall tree by making those first seven layers of connection more dense.

You've chosen a wonderful set of genealogical projects to pursue and we're lucky that you decided to pursue these as a member of the WikiTree community.  One of the things about our community that I love is that people really can "choose their own adventure".  There are countless ways to engage with family history to bring those who came before us to life.  I'm quite sure that I'll keep being wonderfully surprised by the creativity, passion and initiative of my fellow WikiTreers and how they choose to spend their time here.  

Thanks for taking time to ask what RAWK is all about and best wishes for your research projects in the new year.
+14 votes
Sign me up again, please!
by Erin Breen G2G6 Pilot (344k points)
Thanks for joining us again, Erin.  You're all set.
+15 votes
Count me in Betsy!
by Living Brunson G2G6 Pilot (103k points)

Hi Pat--Good to have you back with us. smiley

+14 votes
I would be happy to help RAWK in February.
by Kathy Zipperer G2G6 Pilot (477k points)
Excellent; thanks, Kathy!
+15 votes
I would like to participate with the February RAWK.  Thanks!
by Patrick Stacy G2G6 Mach 1 (18.6k points)
Terrific; you're all set, Patrick!
+13 votes
I will help if I can.
by Matthew Sullivan G2G6 Pilot (157k points)
Wonderful to have you back on the team again, Matthew!
+15 votes
We need to RAWK our dear family member: Matthew!  Matthew is one of our members in the Appalachian Project and we'd love to RAWK him!   Combs-1687.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Combs-1687
by Melissa Maynard G2G6 Mach 4 (43.4k points)

You’re very kind, Melissa! This February will mark the end of my 40th year on Earth, and what a present this would be! smiley

Hi Melissa--I somehow missed your answer to the post earlier, but I have you on the February team roster now.

Thanks,

Betsy
+12 votes
Sign me up to help. RAWKing is super fun!!
by Sandy Patak G2G6 Pilot (237k points)
It wouldn't be the same without you, Sandy!
+14 votes

It’s only fair that I volunteer since I agreed to be nominated. I promise not to RAWK myself! laugh

by Matthew Combs G2G3 (3.3k points)
Welcome to the RAWK team, Matthew!
That is so cool Matthew!
+14 votes
Hi - Thanks for the link; February will be a busy month for me but I will join the RAWKErs team again and do what I can when I can.

Best

Chet Snow-2128
by Chet Snow G2G6 Mach 7 (75.7k points)

Good to have you back, Chet.  Every bit helps. smiley

+13 votes
I'm so glad we are doing this again this year! Please sign me up to help.
by Erin Robertson G2G6 Pilot (157k points)
Terrific; you're on the team roster, Erin!
+13 votes
Please sign me up to help RAWK people.
by Kathy Nava G2G6 Pilot (311k points)
Thanks, Kathy.  Great to have you and you're all set.
+13 votes
I'd like to join for the February RAWK - not done it before, but sounds like fun
by Maureen Wilkins G2G6 Mach 2 (24.0k points)
Welcome, Maureen.  We're glad to have you on the RAWK team!
+13 votes
I would like to help
by Ruth Jowett G2G6 Mach 4 (43.1k points)
Fantastic; you're on the February team roster, Ruth!
+13 votes
Sign me up!
by John DeHart G2G6 (6.7k points)
Welcome to the team, John!  Thanks for volunteering.
+15 votes
i would like to help please!!
by John Tyner G2G6 Mach 5 (58.2k points)
Great to have you back, John!
+13 votes
I would love to join in!!!
by Lisa Murphy G2G6 Pilot (342k points)
Wonderful; you're all set, Lisa!

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