Suggestions News and Updates (October 8th 2023) [closed]

Question

News

• Continued rechecking the failed URLs again. 5K false suggestions were resolved. There are many more to check.
• Request to WTTrackerReview can now return json file. Like: https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTTrackerReview/profiles.json?appId=bioCheck&Challenge=SourcerersChallenge20231001&WikiTreeID=McGee-1611&format=json
• In WT+ path results: https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=disp2&WikiTreeID1=Whitten-1&WikiTreeID2=Trtnik-2&relatives=0 there is now a link to display the map of the found path on WT+ Maps.
• A map can be displayed for any list of profiles in 3rd party apps using link plus.wikitree.com/findmap.htm?aid=userid1,wikitreeeid2,...&grouptype=L

Previous News

• 607 Slightly adjusted the algorithm in case of multiple word locations. This will remove a few false suggestions.
• Added Editing details to category navigator. It displays a user and the time of last edit and some other category details. See example: https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTCatNavigate/Category.htm?Details=Edit&Category=Yorkshire&Levels=2
• Added Ísland spelling to Iceland locations. See: https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=ISL
• Suggestion 403 Single sex marriage now checks the Category:LGBTQPlus and does not produce a suggestion if either profile is a member of the category. Use of the category is optional.
• Finished rescan of the external links that were scanned before 2022.
• Some EditBOT updates of broken links. See: https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1632287/suggestions-news-and-updates-september-3rd-2023?show=1633755#a1633755
• I added the tree size to search results. https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=+Ljubljana+unconnected+not+unlinked I also improved the Groupby field if you select Connected to display tree sizes https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTWebProfileGroup/GroupBy.htm?Field=Connected&query=Ljubljana+unconnected+not+unlinked
• Improved the GroupBy field operation on the Profile Search results. It now displays up to 5 profiles matching the group and in case of more a link is provided to find them all. Here is an example.
• I added Custom SQL filtering to WT+ search engine. See https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1605167/wt-search-for-born-died-before-after-a-certain-year?show=1611052#a1611052 for more details. Basically aftter you find some result set you can perform an actual SQL query on the results where there are endless posibilities of conditions. It is limited to check only results with under 200000 profiles found in the left part of the search query. So you first find the profiles of interest like Black Heritage and then you add an sql condition sql="[Birth Date Num] < 18650000" Here is the example link https://plus.wikitree.com/default.htm?report=srch1&Query=Black+Heritage+sql%3D%22%5BBirth+Date+Num%5D+%3C+18650000%22 There are many things you can write in SQL but it is a whole new sintax. Ask if you want something else. I will monitor how this performs and do some changes if there will be problems. A few notes on the SQL sintax: Our internal basic interpreter is used to evaluate conditions and they can be really complex. But most likely I will have to write them.
• Added operator relation=... to the search. This is kind of an operator that performs relation on the profiles on the left side of the operator. Magic Words: father, mother, parents, spouses, children, siblings, nuclear replace the result with the relatives. If you want to retain the starting profiles in the results, you can use the same relations with the add prefix (addfather, addmother, addparents, addspouses, addchildren, addsiblings, addnuclear). The relation is limited to 100000 profiles. That means that the query on the left side must have less than 100K profiles.

Challenge

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1647914/challenge-of-the-week-help-repair-or-resolve-broken-links

Answer 1

I was looking at the new suggestions for suggestion 615 "Birth Location Country not recognized" (https://www.softdata.si/wt/Err_20231008/615_New_0.htm) and I noticed that this week a number of them have the country entered as "Slovensko". According to Wikipedia, "Slovensko" is the Slovak name for Slovakia, so perhaps it should be added to the locations table?

Comments

Good point. I added Slovensko to  the table.

https://plus.wikitree.com/function/WTShowTable/Table.htm?table=Countries&filter=SVK

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Thanks Aleš.