Aleš Trtnik
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Aleš Trtnik

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Aleš Trtnik
Born 1960s.
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Uporabnik govori slovenščino kot materni jezik.‏
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Aleš Trtnik competed with the Aspiring Aspens in the 2023 WikiGames.

Ask Aleš, Interviews

Ask Aleš is happening on first Wednesday of the month. Check here for the past interviews.

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Biography

Aleš was born on 24 September 1969 in Ljubljana, Slovenia to Mišo and Jelka.

I got married on July 7 2004 in Santorini, Greece

Genealogy

Aleš was featured in a Meet Our Members Post on the WikiTree Blog!

Interest for genealogy started in 2015. I started with my tree in various programs and websites. Best one that I found was MyHeritage, but my tree quickly expanded beyond free hosting. So I continued my search and found the WikiTree. I registered on 29 Jun 2015 and transferred part of my tree to here,

Then I played with API and noticed, that I often forget to enter gender, locations,... So I wrote the program to search for errors on my tree. After I corrected all my mistakes, I asked myself if others are doing the same mistakes. So in april 2016 I asked for access to the database dump, and I couldn't believe, that others made even more mistakes than I did. So shortly after, I prepared the first error reports and Data Doctors project started.

In July 2016 I was asked to become the Leader and in September that year I also became the WikiTree Team Member. Since then a lot of things were done, mostly documented in G2G.

RootsTech
RootsTech Attendee: 2018, 2019, 2020

I regularly visit RootsTech since 2018 where I like meeting WikiTree members and discuss future development of WikiTree.

Aleš Trtnik participated with Legacy Heirs during the 2019 Connect-a-Thon, and added 156 connections.
Aleš Trtnik participated with Legacy Heirs during the 2020 Connect-a-Thon, and added 182 connections.

I manage counting and ranking on all Thons on WikiTree. I do participate in most thons on wikitree.

On ConnectAThon I work on WikiData Suggestions adding missing links on wikitree.

Sources

  • First-hand information. Entered by Aleš Trtnik.
  • Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 3,384 cM Family Finder match between Me and my mother.
  • Maternal relationship is confirmed by a 3,587 cM match between Me and my mother on GEDmatch.
  • Paternal relationships is confirmed by a GEDmatch test match between Annetta Giannetto GEDmatch NM7859054 and Aleš Trtnik GEDmatch T412883. Their most-recent common ancestors are Jože Trtnik (1886-1965) and Ivana (Dimnik) Trtnik (1891-1978). Estimated number of generations to MRCA = 3.5, based on sharing 105 cM.

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It may be possible to confirm family relationships by comparing test results with Aleš or other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
  • Aleš Trtnik: Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup R-M198, FTDNA kit #MK32808, MitoYDNA ID T12872 [compare]
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hi Ales, you had put a category of needing PPP removal on the profile of Joseph Louis (Montcalm) de Montcalm (1712-1759) a few days ago, without consulting the project. The PPP was there to protect the name, which gets listed variously in some sources. Have asked the leader who removed it to restore it. Please consult before adding this category to project profiles. Thank you.

Danielle, Québécois project coordinator

posted by Danielle Liard
That was done on behalf of notables project. You should contact the project about the changes made on specific profiles.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Thanks, I did that, all fixed now.
posted by Danielle Liard
Aleš, how do I run this search in W+ for my watchlist?

BirthLocation=MissingLocation DeathLocation=MissingLocation not b0 d0

Thank you!!

posted by Marcie (Korte) Ruiz
Add your wikitreeid as the first word in search query.

Korte-201 BirthLocation=MissingLocation DeathLocation=MissingLocation not b0 d0

https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=Korte-201+BirthLocation%3DMissingLocation+DeathLocation%3DMissingLocation+not+b0+d0

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Ales, could you please check why the tracker for Feb 2024 Connectors Challenge is not working ? Thank you
posted by N Gauthier
it is ok now, we fixed the header change.
posted by N Gauthier
Hi Aleš. I've just found out about the Hold Request template that is now being used by the various Orphan Trails instead of the graphics shown on the Data Doctor Project page. The page needs updating to reflect this change. I'm happy to do this, if that's OK with you. John
posted by John Elkin
Sheryl Moore is managing the documentation. You should contact her.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Aleš. Quite often comment text entered on suggestions through the profile edit interface is being truncated. See this example. My first comment was from edit, the second directly onto the status page. I believe I typed pretty much the same thing both times.
posted by Jim Richardson
Length of the comment on edit page is defined by the table on the WikiTree Database SQL server. It is not easy to change, while the length of the comment on WT+ is not limited at all. Try to form shorter comments on the edit page.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Not a great situation. What is the maximum length I should stick to?

Edit: Never mind, the example shows it's 50.

posted by Jim Richardson
edited by Jim Richardson
Comment length on WT is set to 50 characters.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Ales, thank you for editing the biography of my great grandfather Benjamin Franklin Athey, Sr.
Ales could you please check to see why none of the Nov 2023 challenge tracker links are working yet & thanks

quote> No webpage was found for the web address: https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectorsChallenge/20231101/User.htm https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/SourcerersChallenge/20231101/User.htm

posted by N Gauthier
Aleš, I co-opted a June question to ask about applying italics in the Enhanced Editor with Command + I. Do our editors listen for that?

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1594860/why-am-i-having-problems-applying-italics-on-profiles

posted by Karen Lowe
As far as I know hotkeys are not supported in enhanced editor.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Alex, thanks for your work on Wiki tree ,

regarding your comment on Coxhead-303

you posted on the profile that it required a death notice. " Victorian BDM birth record number 11535/1918 " Is reference to the official death records for Victoria. Translated it means State of Victorian record number 11535 / for the year 1918. You will come across a lot of them on Wiki tree.

regards Peter

posted by Peter Shaw
That was EditBOT. It just used my login name.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
I have a group of links that are getting a 403 Forbidden error. They work for me and are from a site that has no paywall or login requirement that I can see. Can you suggest if there is something I am not seeing?


https://www.joycetice.com/tax/1815smit.htm and https://www.joycetice.com/cent/maine09cr.htm

are two examples.

posted by Jim Duggan
I found the problem for the first link and fixed it. The 2nd returns 404 and you should get the same error.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
I introduced a typo. Should have been

https://www.joycetice.com/cemt/maine09cr.htm Another example

https://www.joycetice.com/diaries/1877bour.htm


Thanks for the quick response. Is there something in my formatting I can correct?

posted by Jim Duggan
edited by Jim Duggan
all 503 Errors were resolved for that domain.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Ales. Thanks for all the work you've done on WikiTree+. There are a lot of "403 Forbidden" errors in my Suggestions that work fine for me and are not subscriptions or anything like that. "Forbidden" sounds like maybe the machine running the scan is behind a firewall?
posted by Bob Utterback
I saw the same thing with archive.org links and I was of course suspicious, and they all worked out. I thought it was a temporary glitch but I did see them this week as well, just a FYI.
posted by John Bäckstrand
You must provide explicit URL and Profile if you want me to check it out.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Sure, one example is Danielsson-155. I see now it was a 404, but still.
posted by John Bäckstrand
I checked that URL and it works. But it didn't work on 17. 07. 2023 20:01:31 and 17. 07. 2023 06:37:20 I usually scan a link twice with some time in between. And Again in a few months. 

I can't update it at the moment, but I will asap. I checked and also link http://cweden.com/genealogy/cw/p3b82be7e.html works, so there is no need for the archive one.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Aleš. A possible minor bug. Under some circumstances, when there is only one record, WikiTree Plus says "Too many records to sort". Example: the first and last generations in this search for this G2G answer. Regards—Jim
posted by Jim Richardson
It was just unnecessary text. Fixed.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Aleš, is there any way to search contributions?
posted by Connie Graham
No. I don't have that data available on WikiTree+. What exactly do you need? Maybe I can help.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1576863/where-is-may-2023-connectors-monthly-challenge

I am having trouble getting anyone to respond about the May 2023 Connectors Monthly Challenge, so I am trying to see if you might know what is going on ... or get it started so we can start entering our tracker claims. Thanks.

posted by N Gauthier
Event is listed in the calendar.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Calendar

The tracker is set up and running. https://plus.wikitree.com/Challenges/ConnectorsChallenge/20230501/User.htm

Other than that I wouldn't know.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Thank you for checking into this and letting me know that I can enter my claims.

So I have tried to do so, but it is still NOT showing up in the tracker. What can I do next in order to get the Connection tracker to record member entries ? Thanks

posted by N Gauthier
I found the problem. on page https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Connectors_Challenge the participant's title is wrong.

This Month's Participants (20230301) should be This Month's Participants (20230501)

Results are now in the score table.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Thank you for being a Legacy Heir!!! I hope to see you on the roster for the July Thon!
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
No problem. It was my pleasure to be a team member for a few years. Unfortunately I decided that in the future I will join Team Austria, since Slovenia was part of it at the time I am researching.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Aleš. When you have time, I wonder if you could please have a look at what appears to be a bug with this FG 577 suggestion. I've added a comment explaining: "This suggestion seems to have a bug. It is not imprecise death date: both FG and WT agree the death date was Jun 1984 see below. Instead, the birth dates are different (because FG is wrong), but that was not reported." —Jim
posted by Jim Richardson
edited by Jim Richardson
Oops, sorry, I partly figured it out. The death date on WT should be Jun 1894 not just 1894. I will correct that soon. It is still not clear why the different birth date was not reported.
posted by Jim Richardson
Since the dates are only years, I don't report a difference of only 1 year, since it might be correct in case different calendars (Gregorian/Julian) were used.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Ok, thank you Aleš! That does explain it.
posted by Jim Richardson
Kia ora Aleš,

Each time I enter a NZ Gov URL for a web site with official biographies for notable New Zealanders, I receive a Wikitree message/suggestion such as this one:

Link error various Help → 403 Forbidden https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6c3/clay-marie-mildred

The URLs in the profiles Sources link with the site with no problems.

Why is this happening? Nga mihi nui

Clare

posted by Clare Pierson
edited by Clare Pierson
I checked the URLs and the server results are strange, when I try to get the status of some pages on this domain. Most of them work, but some return 403 code.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
It seems that at the end of January they changed how their server works and now it returnd 403 errors. I have excluded domain from checking.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Aleš,

Working on the Poland Project and really appreciate these reports. However, the data date at the bottom says Jan 29, around 8 days ago. Is there anyway we could get the data updated quicker? Category Report. Daily would be fantastic, but even a couple of days would work. We would like to correct our errors as soon as possible.

Thank you,

Tina

posted by Tina Kobus
edited by Tina Kobus
Category reports are updated a few times per week. Usually NOT on Sunday-Wednesday since the main database dump is being processed.

The date at the bottom is not valid for all things but the number of profiles column depends on that date.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
edited by Aleš Trtnik
OK, thank you. I will check it again on Thursday.

Tina

posted by Tina Kobus
Hi again, Aleš. I think there may be a bug in WikiTree Plus search for Manager= with a WikiTree ID which has underscores in it. It works with the numerical ID instead. Please see an example at this G2G comment, or try this simpler search which incorrectly returns zero results.
posted by Jim Richardson
Hi Aleš. Welcome back from Jordan! You asked me to remind you to fix it so Manager= will work with WikiTree IDs containing underscores. Also, a similar case came up, with CC7=. See this G2G comment. Thanks in advance—Jim
posted by Jim Richardson
Hi Aleš. Since the server move, the CC7 function is not working. See this G2G comment.
posted by Jim Richardson
Thank you for being a Legacy Heir! I hope to have you on the roster for April Thon.
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hi Aleš,

I am part of the Poland Project working with Skye Sonczalla. We were looking at the Category Report and it is very helpful, thank you. Is it possible to add columns for parallel languages or perhaps some other alternative, a different report? We are creating parallel categories for historical Prussia, now in modern Poland. We have three category pages linked, EN, PL and DE so a profile manager can easily find their town's category in the category widget. It will automatically place the profile in all three parallel categories regardless of which language is chosen. Ex. https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Luba%C5%84%2C_Ko%C5%9Bcierzyna%2C_Pomeranian%2C_Poland. It would be very helpful to see in a report, which categories are missing a language parallel. For example, a town has a EN, PL missing a DE, or any combination of those. Then we could easily identify it and create the missing parallel. Thank you for your help, Tina

posted by Tina Kobus
edited by Tina Kobus
There is an Aka language report.

For all languages: https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/CatLang.htm and for pl: https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/CatLangpl.htm

It is not structured, but you can find missing categories there.

On Category navigation https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTWebCategoryNavigate/Category.htm?category=Polska you can see the presence of aka template in the first column (text AKA)

Maybe I can program something to see the actual languages.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Thank you, the language report is an option. If it is possible to narrow the results by province, which we could input ourselves, that would be ideal. How often does the language report update?
posted by Tina Kobus
It updates a few times per week. At the same time as categories.

I made it possible to show AKA details in category navigator. Select AKA in Display details on a navigation page. https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTCatNavigate/Category.htm?Category=Polska,_Powiaty&HideErrors=1&Details=AKA&Levels=3

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Thank you, that's perfect! How would I change the search to show if someone created a DE, but no PL or EN?
posted by Tina Kobus
You can select any language at the top of the language report https://www.softdata.si/wt/Cat/CatLangde.htm
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Great! Thank you for your help and quick response!
posted by Tina Kobus
Hi Aleš. We'd be grateful to know please whether EditBot can modify all profiles, or only some, maybe ones with Open privacy (as Margaret Haining has previously indicated). This is for a discussion on the LGBTQPlus category. Regards—Jim
posted by Jim Richardson
Aleš, Natalie says you would be the person to edit the Help section How to Delete, Rename, or Merge a Category. I'd be grateful if you could please look at my G2G comment about it. I hope it wouldn't take much to clarify that the new category has to be created first.
posted by Jim Richardson
Hi Ales :) Can you please tell me whether or not there is a JUNE Connectors Challenge ???

There has been no usual G2G posting. I have asked about it in the May 2022 G2G posting and sent messages to the Connectors host and a Connectors leader ... but unfortunately nobody is replying. It is already the end of June 3 and wikitree members need to know if we should continue to make and record our connections. Otherwise I will work on other things. Thanks

posted by N Gauthier
According to the calendar there is one.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:Calendar but there is no list of participants for this month. It seems it is now every 2nd month.

I really don't know. Connectors project should respond.

Aleš

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Dear Ales,

The Profile Improvement Project (PIP) is performing its first annual check-in with our project members. We are in the process of transitioning to a team structure. There will be three participant PIP Teams to start -- The Maintenance Category Team, the Unknowns Team, and the Biography Team. There is also the Voyage Team who guide new Voyagers. See the Profile Improvement Project Teams for a brief outline of each team. Please let us know which team(s) you would like to participate in.

For those of you who joined the Project before the Voyage started in late 2018, we would like to invite you to consider a "fast track" Voyage, especially if you plan to join the Biography Team. If you’re interested, choose a profile that you have completed to the best of your ability and compare it to the Voyage Biography Standards. If you’re at Level 2 or better, include a link to the profile in your response to this check-in for a “fast track” review.

We would also like to invite you to join the email GoogleGroup and text chat Discord channel for our project. (When you request to join our GoogleGroup, please be sure to include your Wiki ID). You will find more information on the GoogleGroup.

We thank you for all you do to help the Profile Improvement Project and WikiTree. The Project’s mission is to:

Make profiles beautiful! We clean up messy biography sections and sources, and try to set standards for attractive, useful, and well-written biographies, starting with those we manage.

We know you’re working on profiles *smile* We would like to hear about successes you’ve had toward the Project’s goals. We would also appreciate any feedback you might have to help us improve the Project. Please share your thoughts in a reply to this comment or privately via private message to either of us.

Sincerely,

Debi Hoag and Robin Shaules Co-Leaders, Profile Improvement Project

posted by Robin (Dodge) Shaules
You can remove my badge. I got it when the Data Doctors project was part of PIP. Now we have our own badge.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hello Ales,

Thank you for all the help you have given to the Profile Improvement Project over the years. We have removed your badge at your request. If you should ever wish to rejoin us, we would welcome you back.

Thank you.

posted by Robin (Dodge) Shaules
Thank you SO much for your work with the data doctors!

I've been attempting to utilize "Find and Replace" tool in WikiTree Plus to update place locations, however I cannot seem to get this function to work. Example: Looking for profiles that list a certain place in the record, ie: "Bridgeport, CT," and then replace with "Bridgeport, Fairfield, Connecticut". When I press the "correct" button, nothing happens. I am wondering if the text of the replace field needs to include additional information, perhaps in order to align with the drop down location items in the profiles?

(I'm a new data doctor, so if there is a better way for feedback I apologize!)

posted by Lauren Millerd
edited by Lauren Millerd
Due to some changes on WikiTree, that function doesn't work. I will have a look if it can be fixed.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
It is now fixed. It was not working due to recent changes on WikiTree+.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Thank you so so so much! Your work is amazing!
posted by Lauren Millerd
As usual, I have the best team for the thons!!! Thank you for being a Legacy Heir for the January 2022 Connect-A-Thon. I am hoping you will join me for the next thon too!
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
I love it! We were adding Stephan Stariha's baptism record at the same time. Thank you! It is so exciting to see these records. I never thought I would ever see Metlika records online. Emma
Have fun. It is hard to read them, but that is what we have. If you need some help, let me know.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Can I get access to just my own "errors" ? I've been active on the 1776 project for about 4 years and have added many patriots. With changes to the 1776 stickers, many are needing updating. I've been a couple of weeks reviewing my contributions in this past year but I know some date back to 2017.

Thanks

posted by Beryl Meehan
Are you a manager of those profiles or did you just do the edits?
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Ales, can you please check out this G2G message ...

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1305964/trying-to-connect-to-world-tree?show=1305988#c1305988

When we go to sdms and check the profile for Turner-4916, it is NOT showing his wife's ancestors ... which it usually does. I made sure to check the box for ALL relatives (not just blood). Hope you can fix this as I use it alot to link up unconnected branches. Thanks

posted by N Gauthier
Can you fix up the error on BIgg/ Bigge att to https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-445987

Trying to do this merge all one gets is a message someone else is doing the merge (The merge of Richard Bigge (Bigge-55) and Richard Bigg (Bigg-9) is already in progress by another user. ) and the system says "If it is not completed in five minutes, you can complete it " BUT no one is doing it I waited, waited. The two male Bigg, Bigge are att to Joanne Unknown https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Unknown-445987

My G2G of Sep 10 asking for tech help is waiting. https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1298531/need-tech-help-on-merge-comments-on-richard-bigg?show=1298531#q1298531

posted by Beryl Meehan
I can't fix it. But I confirmed the problem and forwarded the bug to tech team.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Now that the Connectathon is over, can you please add the Connections Tracker back, so we can record new unconnected branches that we have linked up today ? Thanks
posted by N Gauthier
The challenge was shorten to 22 days and it is over. It can be extended back to 1 month, but the august one starts in 2 days.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Calendar_Connectors_Challenge

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Thank you for being on Legacy Heirs for the Connect a Thon 2021. We hope to have you on the team again for the next thon.
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Thank you for being a part of Legacy Heirs. I am truly blessed by being on this team. Hope to see you with me in July for the Connect-A-Thon.
posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
I am sorry for not being more active in the team activities, but I had a lot to do in keeping the thon running smoothly.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hey hun,

You have NOTHING to be sorry for. You were a great part of the team and you rocked it in keeping everything going so we could do the cleaning anyway. You were busy, Every one you cleaned is another step in making the tree better. You are awesome! Thank you for all you do and have done for the tree.

posted by Lisa (Kelsey) Murphy
Hi Ales, the sourceAthon has started and members including me are experiencing verrrrrrry long wait times for the suggestion status to load. Hoping you can improve it soon. Thanks!
posted by N Gauthier
It was resolved after 3 and a half hours.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Aleš,

Thanks for updating the SW94 templates. However the URL links in the citations are broken. Don't mind me if you were planning to correct them afterwards. If not, the new URLs can be found here for each URL ending with a different family name: https://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/node/55 For example: Broken URL : http://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/37fam-Melanson.pdf New URL: https://www.umoncton.ca/umcm-ceaac/files/umcm-ceaac/wf/wf/pdf/37fam-melanson.pdf

I can correct those that you have done today, there are not that many.

Since this source is used very often in Acadian profiles, and Université de Moncton often changes its URLs, wouldn't it be more practical to have a template, like the PRDH one?

posted by Gisèle Cormier
edited by Gisèle Cormier
SW94 templates are used just a few more times and I decided to finally get rid of them. I noticed that the link is dead end but it also wasn't working before.

Now with the URL out of template it will generate a suggestion. You can correct the ones that I already did. For the others I will correct the link, now that I know how to correct it.

How often do they change the URL. It seems 50 of them are invalid. https://wikitree.sdms.si/function/WTWebAll/Suggestions.htm?Query=www_umoncton_ca&MaxErrors=1000&ProfileSearch=1&ErrorID=965

posted by Aleš Trtnik
They added an s to http and lower case letters to most of the family names around December 2019 as shown in this Space page when Jackie Girouard made corrections. https://www.wikitree.com/index.php?title=Special:NetworkFeed&space=4131092 . You can see that the family names were a mixed bag of capital and lower case letters. (It is still the same today). I remember that Edit Bot made many corrections then. More recently, this January, when new suggestions were created for broken links, Edit Bot edited close to 200 more. I also noticed that since the corrections in January, URLs one or two names (don’t remember which ones) with lower case letters have reverted back to capital letters. I think that when they make edits to a file, they might inadvertently change the URL address. But now I see the importance of having the same citation without the template so that all of these URLs are corrected at the same time.

In the suggestion list above, I corrected a few of them which were just formatting errors by WikiTree users. I can correct the rest if you want, or do you prefer to use Edit Bot?

posted by Gisèle Cormier
If the number is small, do it by hand.

BTW: I finished removing all SW94 usages and deleted all SW94 templates.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Will do the corrections. Thanks for everything!
posted by Gisèle Cormier
I think there's a typo in the docs for https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Template:Ancestry_Image

Both parameters say "it is the first number in the URL."

posted by Karen Lowe
Thanks for letting me know. I corrected it.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Could you please check that the Connectors Challenge Tracker is working properly ? I tried to enter a connection about an hour ago and it is still not showing up = still all blank. Thanks

https://wikitree.sdms.si/Challenges/ConnectorsChallenge/20210301/User.htm

posted by N Gauthier
There are no participants of the challenge imported, since they are not entered. They should be entered here https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Space:Connectors_Challenge#Participants

Aleš

posted by Aleš Trtnik
That didn't correct the problem. The tracker is still not showing any results :(
posted by N Gauthier
You made a typo in the date. Now it is correct. I update participant list 4 times a day.

You can also change the headings from "This month" to something else. Just the "Participants (20210201)" is important and should be as it is.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Ales,

Is there any way to run a text search and then download the resulting table? I was running this search, and would like to download the table into excel. The .csv and tab delimited didn't get me what I needed. https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=5stars%2BPuritan+Great+Migration&MaxProfiles=500&SortOrder=LNAB&PageSize=500

On a related note, is there a way to show in the above list those profiles that have ONLY WikiTree-30 as a Profile Manager?

Thank you.

posted by S (Hill) Willson
edited by S (Hill) Willson
It works for me. After clicking your link, I changed format field to "Separated values" and hit "Get profiles". It saves Profiles.csv to the bottom of the browser (to Downloads folder) and clicking on it opens excel without any problem for me. I use Chrome on Windows and I have Microsoft office installed.

At the moment we are developing dedicated export to xlsx format, that will be even better. We will be able to explicitly format the cells.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Thanks, Ales.

I just tried it again the way you recommended, and when it came into Excel (also using Chrome on Windows 10), it had the semicolon delimiters in it still. Did you have to do something different to convert it into columns of data?

posted by S (Hill) Willson
There is a system setting for list delimiter in windows. It might be country dependant. It is semicolon by default for Slovenia. It can be set in somewhere Windows regional settings.

If you got all text in column A, you can use Column to Cells option in excel. It is in Data menu. Another thing you can try is to start excel and then open the downloaded file. there are a few csv/tsv formats available. it might even ask for delimiter. Another way is to use Tab separated format, open the file in Notepad, Select all text and copy to clipboard that can be directly pasted to excel.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
I have been a long time badged Wikitree Connector and have been noticing that lately some profiles are missing the unconnected icon. Here is an example of a lone profile ...

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Grissom-1040

Hoping you can make the icon reappear, so I know to enter it for the monthly Connectors Challenges. Thanks

posted by N Gauthier
Hi Ales, hope you are doing well :)

I have been seeing a bunch of pre1700 profiles without sources, so I would like to make a suggestion for you to consider. Could another occasional weekly Data Doctor Challenge be added to find sources specifically for unsourced pre1700 profiles ?

I think wikitree volunteer sourcerers are busy and it wouldn't hurt to add some extra attention to pre1700 profiles by occasional Data Doctors.

If it provides successful results, perhaps we could later even extend it to unsourced pre1800 profiles also.

Wishing you happy holidays in 2020 :)

posted by N Gauthier
Data Doctors challenges are based on the Suggestion reports. And we don't have a suggestion for the lack of sources. Until we will have such suggestion, that will not be possible.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
I thought maybe the error report could search for pre1700 profiles that have the ((Unsourced)) tag. But thanks anyway for your consideration :)
posted by N Gauthier
edited by N Gauthier
Thank you for the acceptance into data doctors :-)
posted by [Living Swift]
Good afternoon Ales, the Remember the Children team was asked to take a look at the category below to help update the profiles of the children. Is there a search we can do on Wikitree+ for people with this category that died before age 18? An added plus is to be able to see orphaned profiles only. Hopefully you can help us out.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Murder_Victims

posted by Antonia (Widenstedt) Reuvers
edited by Antonia (Widenstedt) Reuvers
Someone recommended the WikiTree+ tool. It looks pretty incredible! I was wondering how I could do a specific search. I am looking for a tool that looks for descendants of a person that are Notable. I have asked about it in this question: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1123608/is-there-way-find-famous-notable-descendants-wikitree-entry. Is there a way to do this in WikiTree+? I've looked but haven't found that option in the list of suggestions or elsewhere. Thank you!
posted by Alex Campbell
Here is the help for WikiTree+ https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Help:WikiTree_Plus#Text_search_2

And down the page, you have Descendants=Tudor-18 which queries his descendants. And you can add Notables to the query. Something like this. https://wikitree.sdms.si/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=Descendants%3DTudor-18+Notables&MaxProfiles=500&SortOrder=Default&PageSize=10

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Ales, Are the Data Doctor reports like this one https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Automated:DD_Unconnected_List_NZL automatic? This hasn't been updated this week and was curious when it would next be run. Cheers
posted by Kylie Fowler
This week the database dump was very late. New weekly report will be published later today instead of Monday.
posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Ales, I was wondering if you could please make a correction to the area where we mark our entries for the Monthly Connection Challenge. It is currently showing that there are 2 challenges running (beginning on the first and the other beginning on the 15th). In truth there is only one Connectors Challenge each month that begins on the first.

Also it looks like you have made a change to the database. And so many time today, I have lost ALL the work I did and had to go back to the beginning and duplicate all the work I had previously done. This is because I keep a profile open in the edit mode when I am doing some research and it looks like the new update doesn't like length of time. Even worse, it loses all the work I spent so much time on.

I did not have these problems before today. I could keep a profile open as long as I wanted and also if a bad token came up, it would refresh with ALL my previous work still there so I could save my edit.

I hope that you can reistate longer profile edit times and the system not losing the edit work I have done before saving it.

Another change that is giving me some difficulty is that the profile number is no longer in the web address. I always used that for the Acknowledgements section and to refer to other profiles.

Thanks so much for any help you can provide.

posted by N Gauthier
I deleted the 15-15 challenges. past, current and future ones. They were entered to the end of the year. I also moved the results to the appropriate 1-31 challenge. Let me know if there are any other problems left.

I think most of the things about the update will be resolved in a day or two. There is a G2G to report the problems.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi! Can the Wikidata template be changed to not capitalize the D in Data? Thanks!
posted by Karen Lowe
I corrected the template.

You are welcome.

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Hi Ales

I need to search and replace a book reference in all my profiles. Under "= sources =" I need to replace a reference to a book which resides on the googledrive. The text looks like this: Sources The Samii Clan Book By Mohamad Bagher Adibsamii <div dir="rtl"> کتاب شجره نامه خاندان سمیعی به کوشش محمد باقر ادیب سمیعی </div>

I appreciate the help Regards

I guess you are talking about the link to https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bzy_Qhx8EdcUYTZ6QmRJWFpQY3M that is broken.

It is used on 3118 profiles. I can provide you a list of all profiles using it.

I am not sure if EditBOT can handle nonlatin alphabets. I would have to try.

Since google drive is not a static thing, I would suggest that you create a Space page on wikitree and link to it from all profiles.

There you can have a link to google drive and change it if needed also in the future with a single action. Google can change the link in the future again.

Since I haven-t seen the book, I am guessing, but maybe you can upload the images or PDF of the book on wikitree and you will not be dependent on google at all.

Let me know what you decided and I will try EditBOT on those profiles. I can reformat the complete link to point to a space page.

Aleš

posted by Aleš Trtnik
Would it be possible to do a global search and replace for source urls beginning https://www.genealogie.umontrea.ca/ to be changed to beginning https://www.prdh-igd.com/ as in the profile of Gagnier-79 for example? I'm sure there are 100s of them. If you can I'd be curious how many are changed.

Thank you!

posted by Richard Van Wasshnova