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

Question

News

• Added support for Name's gender returned in JSON format for use in the WBE. https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTWebNameDistribution/Names.json?FirstName=Ale%C5%A1&format=json
• While doing that Ian pointed out some problems and I changed the gender function to make it work better. The change was to ignore profiles without gender in the process. Back in 2016 I assumed that all profiles will get the gender eventually but that was not the case on the private profiles so Hellen was set as unisex which is not correct. As a result there will be big changes in gender 500-510 suggestions. 7000 new ones and 50000 changed the suggestion number.
• I prepared the thon suggestions here Automated:DD Suggestion List Challenge 319 ConnectAThon202402. they contain only the profiles created on the first day. Next week all will be included.
• To search for profiles created in the thon on WikiTree+ use profilelist="connectathon/202402" . This week it will return only profiles created in the first half of the thon, next week it will return all.

Previous 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/
• 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 to use the sql="..." conditions in search queries. See: Help:WikiTree Plus#SQL

Challenge

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1732036/challenge-of-the-week-help-repair-or-resolve-broken-links

Answer 1

Thank you for the sql examples added to the help page for Wikitree+! When I first tried to run my query, I was making the string too complicated and not getting the results I wanted, but after reviewing the examples, I had success. Very helpful!!

Answer 2

I am not sure what the change was for with gender, but every one of the new suggestions that I have looked at is False because the gender is correct.

Comments

Linda, you know that without any example I really can't comment what you wrote.

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Suggestion 503 for Scotland 

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Are you saying that names like Elliot and Stewart are female names? According to the WT+ stats they are over 95% male names.

https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=ana1&FirstName=Stewart&MaxNames=500

If they are indeed female names, mark them as false suggestions.

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Many Scottish females were named with what have become modern male names.  It is wrong to presume a name is definitively male because a large percentage are such now.   Christian is predominantly a male name, but in Scotland it was frequently given to females.  Glenn is predominantly a male name, but tell that to actress Glenn Close.

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This can be seen also from the stats and the suggestion has Probably in it.
Warning 503: Probably wrong gender (male)

Suggestion Warning 501: Wrong gender (male) has no probably in it and is used with names where gender is 98 or 99% the same.

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Maybe these suggestions should not be generated for profiles where "Scotland" appears in a location field. Dealing with false suggestions is a burden on profile managers, and they also risk someone who is unaware "correcting" them by changing the gender to a wrong value.

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It just seemed that 84K new gender suggestions this week seems like a large number that had not been addressed before. I had seen several Alexis that I have never seen as male, so was just marking them all as false, verifying they were all female. Taylor is being questioned as female and I suspect there are more Taylor as female than male. I will continue to mark false, but I have the same concern that people will change gender on profiles too easily, as I have already seen done.

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There is only a few thousand "new" suggestions. Mostly they just shifted from one suggestion to another. Mostly from 509 Missing gender that dropped for 53K to missing male/female gender.

501 Wrong male gender		1.695	9.885	8.190
502 Missing male gender		24.219	60.418	36.199
503 Probably wrong male gender		1.982	12.210	10.228
504 Probably missing male gender		−7.894	9.835	17.729
505 Wrong female gender		1.714	10.539	8.825
506 Missing female gender		40.096	68.222	28.126
507 Probably wrong female gender		1.172	7.801	6.629
508 Probably missing female gender		−2.335	13.544	15.879
509 Missing gender		−53.479	46.867	100.346

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I only saw the new Column count and didn't see that some went lower.   It was a lot of new Suggestions for Scotland to get in one week when they had been cleared and with the large volumes generally, it seemed suspicious with the names being shown.