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Ericblazek 23:33, 14 April 2007 (MDT)
[add comment] [edit] Converting MySources to Community Sources [3 October 2007]Is there a way to convert a "MySource" item to a "Community" source without retyping the information? Is it as simple as changing the title? I have a lot of sources (mostly books) that should really be community sources.--Jeff 11:43, 3 October 2007 (EDT)
[add comment] [edit] Converting from MySource to Source and deleting MySources [23 December 2008](moved from the water cooler by jillaine 14:16, 20 November 2008 (EST)) I just read most of the help pages that I could find for sources and didnt find anything that adressed my questions. When I uploaded my trees from my FTM files via gedcoms, all the sources were automatically made into MySources. Some of them seem to fall into the category of sources that should go in Sources, for example a family history book that was used as a reference. Is there some way to transfer a source from MySource to Source so that all the references to it stay valid? Would a redirect work for this? Some of my "sources" are FTM files that were used to move people around between files. I have an old version of FTM and big files with huge numbers of sources so I can't delete these junk sources from my FTM files, so they got uploaded to WeRelate. If I delete a junk page will all the references to it disappear or do I have to manually delete them from every page?--Bevbh 03:08, 18 November 2008 (EST)
Hi Bevbh... a redirect won't work (unless Dallan has changed this recently). MySource and Source are two different namespaces and as far as I know you can't redirect from one namespace to the other. The only exception I know of is redirecting from a Source to a Repository. You can try a redirect, but I believe you'll get an error message. No harm done though. Secondly, deleting a MySource page does not delete all the references to it. Doing so will just create red links, so unfortunately, as Beth pointed out, you will have to change every reference manually. If you choose to make or link to a Source page in place of the MySource page, clicking on What links here under the More heading at the top of the page can assist you in finding the references to the MySource page you are wanting to change. --Ronni 09:27, 18 November 2008 (EST)
There should be REALLY good "Before you Upload" directions that include:
We'd all save a lot of time if these kinds of things (much of which can be done globally) are done BEFORE the upload; they're much more difficult to change after the upload. My $.02 jillaine 21:49, 18 November 2008 (EST) Add to the list not including people's addresses and phone numbers, which I have seen a few cases of. My $.02 would be to outlaw "something like 'GEDCOM as contributed by ....'" on the grounds that it doesn't have any foundation: it is merely that person's assertion and it is not even easily accessible to other people to verify. If you are going to reference somebody's GEDCOM, ideally you should include what it is that makes this source more than an opinion, as in, "according to so-and-so's GEDCOM, she referred to as Jane Doe in her father's will dated 1 Jan 1645". This at least provides a basis for thinking there is a fact that can be verified, and a resourceful researcher can then track that down, and eventually they will update the page with a reference to the real thing. It is fine to accept a GEDCOM into one's own file as a working hypothesis, but the mere fact that somebody typed it into a genealogy program and generated a GEDCOM means nothing without additional basis, and publishing it, I think, amounts to spreading genealogical rumors. Of course (truth in advertising), I would be one of those stubborn few that argue for outlawing GEDCOM uploads altogether. In the steady state, where the data is mature, there will be lots of existing data and little new data imported by each GEDCOM, and it demonstrates a certain amount of commitment if a user is willing to type it in by hand (or cut and paste) item by item, rather than uploading only to lose interest. --Jrich 22:27, 18 November 2008 (EST) Add my $.02 to yours. Now we have $.04.--Beth 21:32, 19 November 2008 (EST) You can't rename a MySource page as a Source page, but you can replace the text of the MySource page with a #redirect [[Source:source page title]], which will automatically redirect links to the Source page. So you have to find a corresponding Source page or create a new one first, then redirect the MySource page to it. Renaming the MySource page is a good idea though; I'll add it to the todo list. Matching GEDCOM sources to existing Source pages during a GEDCOM upload is something that's been talked about, and I think it's a good idea. It just takes time (a fair amount of time) to implement. I'd be happy to add a "before you upload" instruction section to the GEDCOM upload page. Would someone like to move these ideas into a disucssion on Help talk:GEDCOM and begin elaborating on them?
I'm really hoping that before the end of the year I have integrated showing duplicates and merging / linking to existing pages into the GEDCOM upload process. I think we have to do this before we promote WeRelate in a big way. Hopefully this will alleviate the issues we're now facing with merging people.--Dallan 00:12, 19 November 2008 (EST) Just for clarification and to ensure that I'm not passing along bad info, I thought a rename was just a redirect with a twist. So, we can redirect to a different target namespace, but not rename. Is this good for all namespaces or just Source/Mysource? I thought I remembered a situation where we were having trouble redirecting to another namespace, for instance an article to a person page, so we were having to delete and then recreate the page. --Ronni 13:10, 19 November 2008 (EST)
[add comment] [edit] Need a MySource -> Source Merge Tool Next [16 July 2017]While a "before you upload" set of instructions will help diminish the need or this MOVING FORWARD, in the meantime, there are what? HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of "MySource" pages that really should be "Source" pages. As I understand it (see above), for each "My Source" that I convert to a "Source", I need to then go through each page that sites the old MySource source and manually change each citation. Let's use just one example of mine: "MySource:Jillaine/Hausen_ob_Verena_(Tuttlingen)_Evangelische_Kirche"
If I select MORE: What Links Here, I get this: So we need something that does something like this: 1. "Convert MySource to Source" This examines all of my sources and compares them to what's in Source, and comes up with a list of possible matches. I select the one that is correct. 2. Change all citations from MySource to Source The tool then looks for all pages that pointed to the old MySource page. I probably still have to go through this one at a time, but the tool will help me do it. It would bring up: a) the fact being cited (birth or marriage or whatever) b) the citation as it was c) a blank citation form for me to fill out (which will be the revised citation now linking to the Source page instead of the MySource page. I'm *guessing* that the bulk of what I'll have to do is copy and paste data from one form to the other, but at least this would help me do it in a systematic and consistent way. Am I nuts? I mean, you created the MATCH/MERGE tool. it's kinda similar. Respectfully, jillaine 14:28, 20 November 2008 (EST) I agree that matching Sources in your GEDCOM to existing Source pages is important, although not as important I think as matching people in your GEDCOM to existing people. I'm thinking about how to make matching GEDCOM MySources to community Sources as part of GEDCOM upload.--Dallan 00:19, 24 December 2008 (EST) [add comment] [edit] Something wrong with my redirect - please advise [14 March 2009]I'm working on redirecting my more obvious MySources to appropriate Source pages (and renaming the latter if they're not following the current naming convention). But my redirect isn't working and i've gone over it and over it and can't see the problem. http://www.werelate.org/wiki/MySource:Jillaine/Vital_Records_of_Mendon%2C_Massachusetts_to_1850 Thanks! -- jillaine 13:57, 8 March 2009 (EDT) You learn something new every day. Apparently redirects don't work if the wiki links contain '%nn' sequences. I replaced the %2C sequences with commas and the redirect worked. To avoid getting the %nn sequences, you can copy and paste the page title for the link instead of the URL.--Dallan 00:50, 15 March 2009 (EDT) |