Suggestions News and Updates (January 14th 2024) [closed]

Question

News

• Added new report to WT+ to find Geodesic Cycles on a path https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=disp3 See https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1685340/cycles-and-holes-in-the-big-tree and Space:Cycles_and_Holes_in_the_Big_Tree for more.

Previous News

• On Wednesday there was a new session of Ask Aleš. You can watch it here https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1683323/ask-ales-januar-2024
• Added Páez to ignore list for 7x5 suggestions.
• I changed the condition for 7x1 suggestions to better support unicode characters. Regex is now [^\p{L}\p{M}\p{Cf} .'-]
• Added 2 London reports for Greater London and City of London.
• Updated locations table for London. https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=ENG
• Added support for 4 parts of location like City of London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom. If I said in the past that 4 part locations are not possible in the table, now they are and remind me of the locations I can add.
• Added validation of parameters for England Sticker.
• Updated template parameter usage reports for parameters with lists. Items that are in the list are bold. For example see: https://www.softdata.si/wt/Templ_20231126/Template_World_War_II_Param1.htm
• Added abbreviation check for USA locations in form XX, United States. They will be reported as 616 suggestion.
• Fine tuned Czech Repuplic and regions. https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=CZE
• Adjusted the geolocation algorithm to work better. I hope it actually is better since it is almost impossible to estimate the overall results. (Now It does position Armley, Leeds, England correctly even without Yorkshire. It used to find the Leeds in Kent) It does help a lot to enter the locations in correct form with commas and without abbreviations.
• Removed Cemeteries from OPS maps.
• Removed hidden suggestions from WT+ maps.

Challenge

No challenge due to Connect-a-Thon

Answer 1

Hi Aleš

Norfolk Island is a territory of Australia and the placenames used include "Norfolk Island" and "Norfolk Island, Australia"

Currently profiles with the latter usage, appear in both the Norfolk Island report and the Unknown Region (for Australia) report.

But it is not an unknown region.

Is there an easy fix to stop them appearing in the Unknown Region report, or shall I just do my best to ignore it?

Comments

I changed the Norfolk Island to be part of the Australia so it no longer represent an unknownregion. See: https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=AUS

Next week those should be gone.

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Lovely, thanks.

Answer 2

Can I make a bulk URL correction request?

The Metropolitan Cemeteries Board of Western Australia a while back changed the unique identifier they use to link to each individual burial record.

So http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id=FB00026091 became https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=20df8210-d01c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c2d3

There's no way to update the URL without individually looking up each person again.

My proposal is to change any entries that start with http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id= to https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ which is the deceased search portal.

There are a many thousands of these broken URLs in this format.

Comments

I don't usually program EditBOT to change url to a search engine. It is like adding a link to Google on each profile.

There are indeed a lot of links, 7500 of them. Were they contacted if it is possible to get the translation values from FB00026091 to 20df8210-d01c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c2d3. If we could get such a table, I could program editbot to make the changes.

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Aleš, I have to disagree with your approach here sorry. The likelihood of getting the translation table you would like is low. There's a big difference between adding a link to a general-purpose search engine like Google and adding a link to a specific genealogy-related search page which is known to provide data about the person in question.

Many such search facilities do not offer permanent links to results pages. A link on the profile to the search page allows anyone interested to replicate the original search easily and verify the result. In the instance Mark has mentioned, where there is a permalink, having done the search again, a keen WikiTreer will be able to edit the profile and insert that results link in its new format.

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We did get translation tables in the Netherlands and Italy (i think) so it is not totally impossible.

Yes. Link to specific search where the results will be found is better than google.

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I will approach the Cemeteries Board. I don’t fancy my chances but it is probably worth trying.

If I don’t have any luck with them though will you be still willing to make the bulk change?