Suggestions News and Updates (May 5th 2024) [closed]

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News

• A new session of Ask Aleš will be next tomorrow on Wednesday. You can ask questions here: G2G

Previous News

• Adjusted the Error 888: Category not found suggestion to correctly handle the categories created close to and during the database dump.
• Added One Place Studies reports to the space page reports. https://www.softdata.si/wt/SpacePages/
• With Brian we fixed the December bug during the PHP upgrade of ghost profiles in the categories on few more profiles . That also sanitized the 10 years old bug of missing profiles in categories on never edited profiles.
• I prepared the thon suggestions here Automated:DD Suggestion List Challenge 319 ConnectAThon202402. they contain all profiles created during the thon. There is also a DD challenge to tend to those suggestions.
• To search for profiles created in the thon on WikiTree+ use profilelist="connectathon/202402" .
• To do that I had to parse the category usage from biographies. And that enabled me to add new 880 suggestions. I added Error 881: Category doesn't start with double [, Error 882: Category doesn't end with double ] , Error 883: Category is on multiple lines, Error 884: Category starts with triple [ and Error 888: Category not found.
• Added associated images to the space page reports. https://www.softdata.si/wt/SpacePages/
• I added LAREA (a tract of land without homogeneous character or boundaries) entities from geoNames database to profiles geolocation https://www.geonames.org/export/codes.html. In Canada a lot of locations are of that type. There will be some changes also in some other areas.
• I also fixed a bug in geolocating about the admin entities not placed in correct location.
• 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.
• 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/
• 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.
• Added WikiData ID to wikidata index. You can now search for wikidata=q23 to find profile(s) linked from that page.
• 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
• Wrote some examples on how ti use the sql="..." conditions in search queries. See: Help:WikiTree Plus#SQL

Challenge

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1740991/challenge-of-the-week-improve-star-profiles