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The goal of weekend sprints is for all of WikiTree to work together to meet specific goals in a short amount of time that will help the US Black Heritage Project. Each sprint will have different tasks and desired outcomes. Individual scores will not be kept. Instead, before and after statistics will be compared to see the total result of the sprint. Go Team!
Each sprint will start on Friday morning whenever you would like to begin and end Sunday evening at midnight, US Eastern time zone.
Clean Up Sprints
January 5-7 Data Doctor Suggestions
- Goal: To clear Data Doctor suggestions for USBH notables and profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Please read the help page about clearing suggestions before starting.
- Before: 18,381
- After: 17,692 (689 cleaned!)
March 22-24 Oldest Needs Sources
Goal: To source the profiles that have been in the Needs Sources category the longest. How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint. Please read the instructions. Before: 2021: 243, 2022: 3359, 2023: 12,318 After:
April 25-27 Spring Cleaning "Family Tree Size One"
- Goal: To work together to add family members to our lonely single profiles.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint post. Add profiles for family members of profiles in the :US Black Heritage Project, Family Tree Size One category.
- Before: 5969 profiles need family added
- After: 5876 (93 profiles are lonely no more!)
May 24-27 Memorial Day Sprint: Military stickers & 5th US Colored Infantry
- Goal 1: Add military stickers to veterans' profiles from the Needs Military Sticker category.
- Goal 2: Create profiles for the remaining members of the Civil War's 5th US Colored Infantry who died in service. Add profiles for other members of Company A if we finish those who died in service.
Creation Sprints
January: Connect-a-thon
- January's Connect-a-thon will take the place of the creation sprint for the month.
April: Connect-a-thon
- April's Connect-a-thon will take the place of the creation sprint for the month.
May 10-12: Revisiting old sprints
- Goal: revisit 5 old sprint tasks and get them to 100% completion. Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint post.
July: Connect-a-thon
- July's Connect-a-thon will take the place of the creation sprint for the month.
Combined Clean-up/Creation Sprints
FAQs
- When do the sprints start and end?
- Friday morning any time you would like until Sunday, midnight, US Eastern time zone. We will have each sprint scheduled ahead of time, so check back for the dates of the next sprint.
- Do I have to be a USBH project member to participate?
- No. These sprints are open to any WikiTree member who has signed the honor code. If you aren't a member of the project, please read any referenced help pages before starting.
- How much do I need to do?
- As much as you can! Every little bit adds up together to help us meet our goal.
- Am I expected to work all weekend like a WikiTree thon?
- Nope. Just help when you can.
2023 Sprint Archive
January 27-29 Cemeteries
- Goal: To complete all the USBH cemeteries that are currently 50%+ finished. (secondary goal of completing 331 profiles of New Hill Cemetery, Caddo Parish, LA)
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint . Access this spreadsheet for a list of linked memorials. Then begin creating profiles!
- Before: 296 profiles need to be created
- After: 100% of the cemeteries have been completed! New Hill Cemetery: 118 out of 331 completed.
February 10-12 Comedians
- Goal: To improve the profiles and family profiles for the comedians listed on the sprint spreadsheet.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint .
- Before: 153 profiles needing improvement
- After: All the comedians and their families got attention and many of the profiles were completed! Almost all of these comedians now have the Platinum status checklist completed!
February 24-26 Notables
- Goal: To create as many new notable profiles as we can in one weekend.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint
- After: We created 107 new profiles!
March 10-12 Spring Cleaning Sources
- Goal: Source profiles from both the USBH Unsourced and the Needs Sources categories
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Then begin searching for sources. Please add all sources you can find for that profile before moving on.
- Before: 232 unsourced, 5504 needs more sources
- After: 152 unsourced, 5425 needs more sources
March 24-26 Spring Cleaning "Family Tree Size One"
- Goal: To work together to add family members to our lonely single profiles.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint . Add profiles for family members of profiles in the :US Black Heritage Project, Family Tree Size One category.
- After: 900 people. Amazing!
April 7-9 Spring Cleaning Data Doctor Suggestions
- Goal: To clear Data Doctor suggestions for USBH notables and profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Please read the help page about clearing suggestions before starting.
- Before:
- After: 2216 suggestions cleared
May 12-14 Adding Military Stickers
- Goal: To add military stickers to profiles in the maintenance category "US Black Heritage Project, Needs Military Sticker" in honor of the upcoming Memorial Day holiday.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Then choose a profile in category "US Black Heritage Project, Needs Military Sticker" and add the appropriate military sticker(s) based on their military service. Carefully read/follow the directions for the military sticker(s) you're using before saving. See the post for more detailed instructions.
- Before: 542 profiles need stickers
- After: 236 profiles need stickers - 306 profiles stickered!
May 26th-29th: Memorial Day 5th USCI
- Goal: Create profiles for soldiers from the 5th Regiment of the US Colored Infantry who died while serving in the Civil War.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint to sign up. Add profiles for soldiers listed on the sprint's spreadsheet.
- Before: 264 soldiers of the 5th USCI who died during military service; 4 have profiles
- After: 264 soldiers of the 5th USCI who died during military service; 163 have profiles identified now. That's 159 soldier profiles created or identified and 101 family member profiles created during the sprint!
June 9-11 Add Parent Profiles
- Goal: This sprint falls between Mother's Day and Father's Day, so we'd like to add parent profiles to profiles with no parents linked.
- How: Sign up and find instructions on the post.
June 23-25 Missing Birth Locations
- Goal: Add birth locations to profiles that are missing a birth location.
- How: Sign up and find details on .
- Before: 7677 profiles missing birth locations
- After: 6409 profiles - 1268 completed!
July 28-30 Needs Biography
- Goal: Clean-up the Needs Biography maintenance category by adding biographies or removing category from profiles that don't need it.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend clean up sprint . Write biographies for each profile in the category, then remove that category from the profile.
- Before: 2273
- After: 1859 (414 improved!)
August 11-13 Needs Sources
- Goal: Clean-up the Needs Sources maintenance category by adding sources to profiles.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend clean up sprint . Source, source, source!
- Before: 203 unsourced, 9656 needs more sources
- After:
September 8-10 Data Doctor Suggestions
- Goal: To clear Data Doctor suggestions for USBH notables and profiles with the {{African-American Sticker}}
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Please read the help page about clearing suggestions before starting.
- Before: 17,955
- After:
September 22-24 Cemeteries
- Goal: To complete all the USBH cemeteries that are currently 50%+ finished. (secondary goal of completing the New Hill Cemetery in Caddo Parish, LA that we started in January)
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint . Access this spreadsheet for a list of linked memorials. Then begin creating profiles!
- Before: 617 profiles need to be created
- After:
October 13-15 Needs Sources
- Goal: Clean-up the Needs Sources maintenance category by adding sources to profiles.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend clean up sprint {{G2GLink|1648888} Source, source, source!
- Before: 196 unsourced, 10,801 needs more sources
- After:
October 27th-29th 1880 Census for Western States
- Goal: Add families from the 1880 census from nine states where we have very low coverage of African Americans on WikiTree. The states we'll be working on are: Nevada, Dakota Territories, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, and Washington.
- How: Post an answer on the post to sign up. Then choose a family from the spreadsheet to create profiles for.
- Before: 3490 profiles need creation (this number is slightly inflated due to incorrect enumeration of some Latin American families. See directions for more info.--especially for New Mexico.)
- After:
November 10th-12th: Veterans Day Sprint
- Goal #1 (Cleanup): Honor African American military veterans by adding military stickers to their profiles.
- Before:
- After:
- Goal#2 (Creation): Create profiles for the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion and the Tuskegee Airmen from World War II.
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- After:
December 8-10 Home for the Holidays
- Goal #1 (Cleanup): To continue adding birth locations to profiles with the African-American sticker.
- Before:
- After:
- Goal #2 (Creation): To add family to our single profiles from the USBH Family Tree Size One category.
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- After:
2022 Sprint Archive
September 23-25 Birth Locations
WikiTree+ report Click the "Get Profiles" button for the report to appear.
- Goal: Add missing birth locations to profiles with the African-American sticker
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint post and declare which pages on the report you will be working from. See the post for more information.
- Before: 9594 profiles missing birth locations (as of Sept 18)
- After: 6994 (as of October 2)
October 14-16 Sources
- Goal: Source profiles from both the USBH Unsourced and the Needs Sources categories
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend sprint . Then begin searching for sources. Please add all sources you can find for that profile before moving on.
- Before: 251 Unsourced, 2960, Needs Sources
- After: 199 Unsourced 2901 Needs Sources (as of Oct 16)
October 28-30 Cemeteries
- Goal: To create profiles for people laid to rest at both Mount Pleasant Baptist Church Cemetery and Oakland Baptist Church Cemetery in Fairfax County, Virginia.
- How: Post an Answer on the weekend creation sprint . Access thisspreadsheet for a list of linked memorials. Then begin creating profiles!
- Before: 26 out of 364 profiles
- After: 100% completed!
November 11-13 Military Stickers and Family
There will be a combined clean up and creation sprint for this month
- Goal #1: To add military stickers to profiles from the Needs Military Sticker category.
- Goal #2: To add immediate family (or more) to Tuskegee Airmen profiles. These will also count toward the November Connecting Challenge.
- Goal#1
- Before: 318 veterans needing stickers After: 130
- Goal #2
- Before: 106 profiles needing family added After: 79
- Plus: 7 new Airmen profiles created!
December 9-11 Home For the Holidays
There will be a combined clean up and creation sprint for this month
- Goal #1: To continue adding birth locations to profiles with the African-American sticker.
- Goal #2: To add family to our single profiles from the USBH Family Tree Size One category.
- Goal #1
- Before: 6381 After: 6209
- Goal #2
- Before: 810 After: 687
- USBH Weekend Sprint: Help us spring clean by finishing old sprints May 10, 2024.
- USBH Weekend Sprint: Help us spring clean by adding new family members Apr 26, 2024.
- USBH Weekend Sprint--Help us source older profiles Mar 22, 2024.
- USBH Weekend Sprint--Help us create 1880 Census Nebraska Families! Mar 7, 2024.
- USBH Weekend Sprint: Help us clean up data doctor Suggestions Jan 4, 2024.
- USBH Weekend Sprint: Home for The Holidays Dec 2023 Dec 7, 2023.
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