Suggestions News and Updates (April 7th 2024) [closed]

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News

• Changed Great Britain to official location and added all recognition matches to UK regions.
• I improved the succession reports. Now the profile's dates are checked against the function years. I also added reports for only partial and for complete new Succession templates. They are all collected here: https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Succession/

Previous News

• There was a new session of Ask Aleš on Wednesday. You can watch it here: G2G
• I improved the date parameter checking on Template: Hold Request. I added support for long month names and checking for the date being in the past or too far away in the future. Here you can see the a nice review of template use and dates that are not recognized (they are not Bold) https://www.softdata.si/wt/Templ_20240331/Template_Hold_Request.htm G2G: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1718382/error-897-unknown-date-in-hold-request-research-note-box
• I improved the validation of 3xx HTTP errors. I added support to set cookies as requested. That resulted in 8000 less 966 suggestions. See G2G: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1722612/link-error-various-help-found-previously-moved-temporarily
• Ian created a page, that converts country histograms to a table or exports it to excel. https://apps.wikitree.com/apps/beacall6/histograms_to_tables.php See G2G: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1719578/there-harvest-numbers-table-wikitree-location-histograms
• I made minor changes in FindaGrave matching algorithm to prevent false connections. The change is noticed on cca 2000 profiles where a wrong memorial was selected.
• Renamed index CreatedBy to Created. If you were using Createdby=Creator_Trtnik-2 in your searches you now have to use Created=Creator_Trtnik-2
• Added creation year to the Created index. Created=Created_2024 Year is prepended with Created_
• Template:Succession was added to the ConnectionFinder notables definition. That means that Notables CC7 will be calculated also for profiles having the Succession template. Deprecated templates Succession box and Succession box2 will not be added since they should be replaced with the new one.
• I prepared the succession reports. They are all collected here: https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/Succession/ I think this will help unify the template usage on different profiles for the same position. It will also help with transition to the new template. There are 2 special reports. SuccessionReport_All.htm contains all data and is huge. SuccessionReport_Rest.htm contains the data not shown in any other report. All other reports contain the word in the report name SuccessionReportPope.htm in position or years field. Old templates had the position often listed in the years parameter. Reports are updated once a week as database dump is processed. In the reports each Position is shown in 2 tables. First one is named Online data and displays extracted data linked to the WT+ data. the 2nd table named Template parameters lists actual parameters used in templates.
• Removed profiles with private tree from 591 FindAGrave - Possible father and 592 FindAGrave - Possible mother suggestions. Most of them were actually false suggestions.
• I corrected a problem with Suggestions 969 and 970 about named inline citations. See: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1708203/suggestion-870-missing-named-inline-citations
• I changed the list of hints on the right side on Challenge tracker page. The hints defined by the challenge now show up when you check the challenge check box. You can see what I am talking about here: https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTChallenge/Challenge.htm?ProfileID=10816946 The 2 challenges with defined items are Integrators Challenge and Weevils Squashed 2024.
• Added WikiData ID to wikidata index. You can now search for wikidata=q23 to find profile(s) linked from that page.
• Added link to ML/WL addition history to Space:DBE_Project_Status reports.
• Added a possibility to search for changed profiles by a user in last month. Index name is changesmonth and you use it like changesmonth=Trtnik-2 or changesmonth="WikiTree-11" https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=changesmonth%3DWikiTree-11
• Added support for json on category navigation requests. https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTCatNavigate/Category.json?Include2=needs&Category=Personal_Categories&Levels=3&format=json
• Wrote some examples on how ti use the sql="..." conditions in search queries. See: Help:WikiTree Plus#SQL

Challenge

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1729125/challenge-of-the-week-improve-orphaned-profiles

Comments

Wikitree + does not seem to be working.  Everything returns no results

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It seems that the main index didn't build correctly. I restarted its creation. It should be up in 30 minutes.

Answer 1

Ales, I seem to have a problem getting LastNameAtBirth=Unknown to return any profiles.  I am using it with other parameters, but even trying it by itself comes back with an error. Has there been a change?

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LastNameAtBirth=Unknown is actually working. the other parameters are not. I restarted the main index creation and it should work in 30 minutes.