Australia Project: Profile Improvement Portal

Surname/tag: Australia

Welcome to the Australia Project's Profile Improvement Portal.

Join us! Become a member of the Australia Project and help improve Australian profiles on WikiTree.

Contents 1 Australia Profile Improvement Teams 2 About Profile Improvers 3 Project Resources and Guidelines 4 To Find Profiles Needing Improvement 5 Other WikiTree Resources 6 Challenges and Other Activities 7 Members

Australia Profile Improvement Teams

• Sourcerers
• Biography Builders
• Connectors & Arborists
• Data Doctors

About Profile Improvers

• Sourcerers - find sources for profiles. The ideal is to provide a source for each fact on a profile, but even one source helps to orientate genealogists to the profile and confirms the person's existence. Family tree sources are not acceptable, and preferably contemporaneous sources such as baptisms, births, marriages, deaths, burials or wills are the preferred standard.
• Biography Builders make profiles as complete as possible with well-written biographies and sources. They research as much as they can find on a person, writing the information onto the profiles to create as complete a life story for a person. They include categories and links to events and people connected to that profile and citing all those additions.
• Connectors - connect up loose profiles or branches to our global family WikiTree - you know someone is connected if their profile has the section at the bottom of their profile after Matches and Merges showing their connection to various people.
• Arborists seek out and merge duplicate profiles.
• Data Doctors improve profiles on WikiTree by working on suggestions identified in the database.

Project Resources and Guidelines

• Australia Project, Profile Improvement and Maintenance Categories for:
  • 7 Steps for Profile Improvement
  • Where to Find Australian Profiles Needing Improvement
  • Adding and Using Maintenance Categories

• Sources and Citation Examples A guide to sourcing on Australian Profiles and how to cite those sources. Includes links to sources for b/d/m, immigration and military records. This page now has separate state/colony/territory pages. Members are encouraged to make any additions or corrections to the sources and links.

• Citation Assistance Includes browser extensions and links to source citation generators, created by WikiTree members.

• Standards for Australian Profiles This page is a quick summary of the WikiTree Style and Standards, including guidelines for reliable sources for Australian Profiles.

To Find Profiles Needing Improvement

• Australia, Maintenance Categories, for all Australian maintenance categories, including state-based sub-categories.

• Australian Unsourced Profiles, including state-based sub-categories.

• Data Doctor Unsourced Reports for Australia and States

• Reports for Australia and States of Unconnected Profiles

• Error Reports for BDM Location Fields

• Australia, Profile Improvement - Orphans

• The Australian Suggestions List, see the following sections and suggestion numbers:

• Biography: 802, 803, 811, 853
• Profile Completeness: 467 (Short Biography)

• Military Profile Improvement (Australia Project)

Other WikiTree Resources

• Fran's Connecting How-To
• Category Guidelines for the Australia Project
• Australia Project Boxes and Stickers
• Categorization Help
• Research Note Box Help
• Sources Help
• Free Space Pages for Sources
• Editing Tips
• Stickers
• Adding Links
• Sources Style Guide
• Communication Before Editing

Challenges and Other Activities

Optional ways to participate and have fun!

• Australia Project Challenges
• The Wizards of Aus is our oldest Australian team for the annual Clean-a-Thon, Source-a-Thon and Connect-a-Thon. The newer ones are the Super Aussie Genies, and the Southern Cross Stars.
• Sourcerers Challenge
• Saturday Sourcing Sprints
• Biography Builders Challenge
• Connectors Challenge
• 52 Weeks of Accuracy
• If you want to gain confidence on WikiTree, think about joining up to the Profile Improvement Project and embarking on the Profile Improvements Project (PIP) Voyage. Working on profiles from your own watchlist, an experienced member, called a Voyage Guide, will support you to learn a range of new skills. Some Voyage Guides may have experience working with Australian sources and doing Australian genealogical research, but the main focus of the PIP voyage is on improving your profiles, so they are complete, factual, interesting, .... and look great.

Members

What would you like to see on the team page??

Do you have any ideas for the page or for team collaboration??

Please add your comments to this page, send me a comment or private message, or chat with me on our discord server.

Please add to or edit any areas of interest in the table below.

Team Leader - Melanie Paul

Members:

Members	Source/Bio/Connect/DD	Area(s) of Interest
Neil Croll	Source, Bio	Tasmania; East Gippsland, Victoria
Jeanne Pepper	Source, Connect	New South Wales
Melanie Paul	Source, Bio, Connect	Connect Notables
Amanda Myers	Source, Bio, Connect	Victoria, South Australia
Sue Pardey	Source, Connect	South Australia
John Rosser
Kerri McCarron	Source	New South Wales
Tony Woods	Source, Bio, Connect	Victoria
Judy Weggelaar	Source, Bio, Connect	Western Australia and South Australia
Sue Crerar
Maree Evans
Melanie White
T Walker
Jason Rennie	Source, Connect	Victoria, New South Wales
Ronald Bradford	DD	Mostly Queensland
Danielle Lautrec
Leonne Guidoux	Source, Bio, DBEs	mostly New South Wales, but also elsewhere
Virginia Miltrup
Diane Darcy	DD, Bio, Source, Connect
Elizabeth Gordon-Smith
Mel Hayward