| Suggestion | Status |
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| Removed WeRelate support for Ancestral File Number as a separate fact type. Users can use the Reference Number fact type with the AFN template instead. (Existing uses of the Ancestral File Number fact type are automatically converted on display and edit.) | implemented 13 Apr 2025 |
| Removed WeRelate support for Soc Sec No as a fact, in keeping with refreshed conventions for facts and events. | implemented 5 Apr 2025 |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Sort by page title - Sort Person and Family pages by name instead of title, with surname first | implemented 20 Nov 2024 |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Search results "Sort by Date last modified" - when sorting by date, ensure records modified on the same date appear in descending timestamp order | implemented 20 Nov 2024 |
Show alternate names in search results
Index given name initials for better results when searching using initials
Show gender in search results when adding a spouse | implemented 20 Nov 2024 |
Add name type "Commonly Used Name" for nicknames and to indicate when a person used a middle name
Default name type to "Alt Name" instead of "Unknown" | implemented 16 Aug 2024 |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Change label from Preferred name to Primary name | implemented 16 Aug 2024 |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Show all spouses in Search Results List | implemented 29 Jun 2024 (fixed a bug) |
| Allow more combinations of modifiers in dates (e.g., bef abt XXXX). | implemented 3 Jun 2024 |
Living person edit
- tighter rules to prevent creation of pages for potentially living people
| implemented 12-27 May 2024 |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Prevent events out of order (with a threshold) | threshold reduced to 2 years on 22 Apr 2024 (after manually fixing pages with events out of order by 3 to 9 years)
implemented 5 Mar 2022 with a threshold of 9 years |
WeRelate:Suggestions/Tool for checking consistency of data
- Display messages re: consistency issues on the Person and Family pages (determined in real time)
While the notes in the suggestion went beyond consistency issues (e.g., lack of sources, red-linked places), I am considering this suggestion to be complete and am closing it. New more targeted suggestions can be created for specific additional Data Quality reporting.
| implemented 21 May 2023 (see Managing Data Quality), with a few subsequent bug fixes |
WeRelate:Suggestions/Tool for checking consistency of data
- Develop a framework for automated data quality reporting to address at least parts of this suggestion
| implemented 9 May 2022, with subsequent enhancements (2022-2023) and a bug fix (Jan 2023) |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Cemetery pages only on burial location | implemented from 26 Mar 2022 to 30 Apr 2022 |
Dallan fixed a bug in the merge process that treated a marriage event found on a Person page as a birth event, and a birth event found on a Family page as a marriage event. Both would be cases of bad data that could only originate from uploading a GEDCOM file that doesn't follow normal conventions.
The GEDCOM uploader still needs to be fixed to prevent the bad data from being created in WeRelate. | implemented 18 Jan 2022 |
Standardize page title on rename
- Added a "Standardize title" button on the rename page - if selected, WeRelate will populate the "new title" field with the standardized page title (the user still has to select the "Rename page" button to complete the rename)
- This button appears only for person and family pages with dates, where none of the dates are before 1550
| implemented 17 Dec 2021 |
Housekeeping and minor fixes
- minor fixes related to sorting events and displaying dates
- tweaked and cleaned up GEDCOM upload code relating to date-based errors
- fixed print version of family page when there isn't a person page for a spouse (see Support topic from 22 Nov 2020)
- moved Estate Inventory and Estate Settlement to the main part of the event type dropdown list
- fixed a bug in the message for events out of order so that events after death are included
| implemented from 21 Mar 2021 to 16 Nov 2021
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| WeRelate:Suggestions/Format Date Field | implemented in stages from 8 Oct 2020 and 6 Nov 2021 |
Living person edit:
- For a person born within the last 110 years, require one of the following:
- a valid death date
- a valid burial date
- the FamousLivingPersonException template (the person must be in Wikipedia)
| implemented 3 Aug 2021 |
WeRelate:Suggestions/"with" displaying on Person pages where spouse is Unknown
- Now displays as "with Unknown" instead of "with" (or "to Unknown" instead of "to")
| implemented 18 Apr 2021 |
Display all marriages in Person's Facts and Events
- Previously, if a Family page had no events and no sources, it wouldn't show up in the Facts and Events list on the Person page of either spouse. Now it does.
| implemented 21 Mar 2021 |
WeRelate:Suggestions/Create a 'delete' option for those of us who wish to delete a page.
- Add "request delete" to the More menu when the user is not allowed to delete a page
| implemented 20 Jan 2021 |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Facets: Birth Century to use christening date (and add a browse category for 2000) | implemented 1 Jan 2021 |
Decommission Family Tree Explorer (FTE), including:
- allow a user to copy another user's tree from their User page
- renamed user-specific trees to "My Trees" to avoid confusion with "Family tree" diagram
- updated Help to explain the functionality that replaced FTE
| implemented from 19 Dec 2020 to 27 Dec 2020 |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Disallow the deletion of spousal pages if the family page is watched | implemented 18-19 Dec 2020 |
Tweak copy/paste source function:
- Display "copied" for one second if copy is successful
- Display "find/add" link if a Source or MySource was pasted (so user can change the source if desired)
- Change "paste" link to "copy" link on a new source as soon as user selects or enters a source title
| implemented 19 Dec 2020 |
| Replace GEDCOM reviewer so it doesn't use Flash (Dallan did this work) | implemented 9-12 Dec 2020 |
| Display unknown names as underscores (without allowing entry of underscores) | implemented 3 Nov 2020 |
| WeRelate:Request List/Order facts and events | implemented 21 Oct 2020 |
| Minor improvement to the Person page (show dates of family members prior to 1500) | implemented 11 Oct 2020 |
| WeRelate:Suggestions/Statistics: Checkbox to exclude Talk pages in search | implemented 30 Sep 2020 |
| Ability to copy/paste source citations | implemented 26 Sep 2020 |
| Filter What Links Here | implemented 25 Sep 2020 |
| Show which tree checkboxes are current and which are proposed | implemented 13 Sep 2020 |
| Replace Family Tree Explorer with functionality that doesn't use Flash | implemented Aug to Sep 2020 |
If you have feedback on improvements BEFORE THEY ARE DEPLOYED TO PRODUCTION, please do not respond in the Roadmap or the Watercooler. Instead, find the Suggestion Talk page (see the list above to get to the Suggestion and then select the Talk page) and respond there. If you have feedback on an improvement AFTER IT IS IN PRODUCTION, please create a new Suggestion for further changes. This makes it easier for me to manage the work. If you need help creating a suggestion, drop me a note on my Talk page. Thanks--Janet Bjorndahl (aka DataAnalyst) 17:29, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
