From robinp at xtra.co.nz  Sun Jul  1 13:50:30 2007
From: robinp at xtra.co.nz (Robin Patterson)
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 01:50:30 +1200
Subject: [Genealogy-l] New to the Wikia? yes, eleven new contributors in
	June; and other progress
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Time for a follow-up to my 10 April message! -
with copy to Rootsweb's new wiki-genpages list

http://www.wikia.com/wikistats/EN/TablesWikiaGENEALOGY.htm
(from the SQL dump files of Saturday June 30)
tells us:

Number of "serious" Wikians (meaning those who
edited at least 10 times since they arrived) grew
by 30% to 56 in the last 3 months. Two of the
mid-June newcomers have shot up to the top 20 in
"rank": each made over 130 article edits (almost
as many as I did in the whole month - but this
old-age pensioner was gainfully employed making
548 non-article edits).

The number of registered users who contributed 100
times or more in the month exceeded the March 2007
record (4) - it was five in both April and June.
The number who contributed 5 times or more in
April and in June both beat the March record (13).

Number of articles has grown 6% per month on
average since March (now 6,300); and 95% of them
contain over 200 characters. Internal and external
links have increased by over 8% per month.
Interwiki links have shot up to 292 since being a
mere 8 at the end of April.

Database size reached 17 megabytes, 1.8 million
words (though the archives of one much-revised
article reached 64 MB and its Spanish-language
"mate" scores 40 on that scale).

Template namespace grew from 185 pages at the end
of March to 403. OK, most are copied from
Wikipedia with acknowledgment; but they look good
and save time (especially the ones that are
ready-made lists of links to county and town
pages).

Number of images, now 1.5k,  has grown by an
average of over 200 a month since Feb 2007. Still
mostly uncategorised - see:

http://genealogy.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Uncategorizedimages&limit=500&offset=500).

The percentage of categorised articles has dropped
below 86 - only one month since we started has
been lower. Folks, you risk having your work never
rediscovered (maybe not even by you) if it's not
in a category. Please see:
http://genealogy.wikia.com/index.php?title=Special:Uncategorizedpages&limit=999&offset=0
 - and do something about it if any of yours are
there. [[Category:... Surname]] would probably fix
most of them and be the best link. But there are
nearly 4,000 categories.

Categorising creates an easy extra link to a page;
and it has several other advantages, such as:
*  noticing and merging near-duplicate pages so as
to reduce future work  (yes, it has happened)
* seeing which page names aren't in a standard
form but probably should be


Keep up the good work!

[Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
New Zealand
Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
cooperative MediaWiki site

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill" <wmwillis at earthlink.net>
To: <genealogy-l at wikia.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 6:42 AM
Subject: [Genealogy-l] New to this Wiki


> Hi Folks
>
> We seem to have a number of new users of this
wiki.  We've received a
> number of questions/statements/observations
about how things work and
> suggestions for improvement.
>
> All of the above are most appreciated and
welcomed......


From wmwillis at earthlink.net  Fri Jul  6 00:53:23 2007
From: wmwillis at earthlink.net (Bill)
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:53:23 -0400
Subject: [Genealogy-l] Alterantive approach
Message-ID: <2956063D-188B-46F0-8778-AA154CE708FA@earthlink.net>

Robin, et al.

Jillaine noticed one of my experimental articles combining a VITA  
table for both husband and wife.

My original is at http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/User:WMWillis/ 
BLANK_PERSON_ARTICLE

The idea was to make a single article for a couple---instead of  
separate articles.  That way you could solve some of the double entry  
data problems.
I didn't finish off the experimental article---mostly because the  
resulting titles were ungainly.

Jilliane has picked up the thread at

http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Talk:Johann_Heinrich_Betz_% 
281786-1873%29

and solved some of the problems by the simple expedient of putting  
everything under the husbands article.
Its a bit sexist I think, but it works.

This may be an alternative article style for some who wish to reduce  
redundancy.

Bill

From robinp at xtra.co.nz  Fri Jul 13 14:46:57 2007
From: robinp at xtra.co.nz (Robin Patterson)
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 02:46:57 +1200
Subject: [Genealogy-l]
	http://genealogy.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:Help_improve_the_help_pages
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	<093401c7bbee$acffbc00$cb9337d2@633>
Message-ID: <027d01c7c55c$d5993840$d608f6d2@633>

Lots more stuff on that page, folks, representing
several hours' work. Please all have another look
and comment on it from your perspective.


[Mr] Robin Forlonge Patterson,
88 Motuhara Road, Plimmerton, Porirua City 5026,
New Zealand
Member of NZ Society of Genealogists since 1974
http://wc.rootsweb.com/~robinp
And see http://genealogy.wikia.com/ a free
cooperative MediaWiki site


From wmwillis at earthlink.net  Fri Jul 20 13:06:22 2007
From: wmwillis at earthlink.net (Bill)
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:06:22 -0400
Subject: [Genealogy-l] logging in
Message-ID: <E08C470E-796F-46CF-89A5-E5CB4ED41072@earthlink.net>

Hi folks

I'd like to remind everyone of the importance of logging in when you  
create or edit articles.

Folks who don't log in are shown in the edit history with their IP  
address  displayed.
We use those addresses to key in on spammers, and its possible that  
by not logging in you might be mistaken for a spammer yourself.
That's usually not a problem, as we can usually tell a legitmate edit  
from a bad, but sometimes it leads to mistakes.

Bill


From beesley at gmail.com  Fri Jul 20 14:57:08 2007
From: beesley at gmail.com (Angela)
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:57:08 +0100
Subject: [Genealogy-l] logging in
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Message-ID: <8b722b800707200757i303f829fo6e10bd28ca27744c@mail.gmail.com>

On 7/20/07, Bill <wmwillis at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi folks
>
> I'd like to remind everyone of the importance of logging in when you
> create or edit articles.

You can remind people to do this at
http://genealogy.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning

Any text an admin adds to this page will be displayed when
non-logged-in users edit.

Angela

From wmwillis at earthlink.net  Fri Jul 20 17:42:27 2007
From: wmwillis at earthlink.net (Bill)
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:42:27 -0400
Subject: [Genealogy-l] logging in
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	<8b722b800707200757i303f829fo6e10bd28ca27744c@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <0E7031B5-7604-410F-9A42-9DC9E0CEABD5@earthlink.net>

Thanks!
On Jul 20, 2007, at 10:57 AM, Angela wrote:

> On 7/20/07, Bill <wmwillis at earthlink.net> wrote:
>> Hi folks
>>
>> I'd like to remind everyone of the importance of logging in when you
>> create or edit articles.
>
> You can remind people to do this at
> http://genealogy.wikia.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Anoneditwarning
>
> Any text an admin adds to this page will be displayed when
> non-logged-in users edit.
>
> Angela
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