Weekly Report
Data Work Progress Notes
What a week! I thought for sure I was going to miss and come out way short of reaching our goal for the week, but to my shock, we were able to get back on track! Praise the Lord God! We did manage to get another 5% completed on the locations and so should have three more weeks of this marathon to go, excepting any failures on my part, or interruptions to do other important things.
This moves us into the B section! So C is now done! We are finding that there are less cemeteries to be located, but instead more merges are made. We added another 35 cemeteries this week, and located three more that we had listed, but could not find.
Responding to email is now completely out of control. There has been the expected dramatic increase in requests now that the Roman calendar has announced its “new year.” We expect email to be out of control now for the next several weeks. We did find that email is not getting through! If you have not heard a response from me to your email, or if you got a notice saying the address does not exist, please resend those emails! We checked and there is currently no spam or filters on our email account! I wish I knew why some emails do not get through. Maybe the email server is overloaded at our hosting company. We may need to move to another system for email if this continues.
We held our breath this last week as we saw our bandwidth usage for the month creep up to the limit! I have never seen that before! We will have to watch to see if it continues to get so close to the cutoff point! This could mean some serious expenses will be incurred to keep the website online!
Another background fix was the usage analyzer. It turns out we never got the settings fixed, so it has been non-operational. We fixed that and hope it will help us understand the high level of bandwidth usage, to see if there is a problem we can fix to lower it.
Pending
- Location Cleanup (in progress 85% done). Top Priority. This is in an all out blitz. Can we make it three more weeks?
- Removing the United Kingdom in locations and putting Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England as autonomous countries (C, D, E, F, G, H, Y, Z done)
- Set the default photos for each person! Build a script to activate and preserve them. (started) IMPORTANT!!!
- Albums rebuilt
- Photo hover links for photos with 3 or more people in them.
- Nick Names removed from Proper names to AKA names
- Alternate family names moved to AKA names
- Surname prefixes removed from first names field (de van, etc.)
- Multiple spellings of surnames moved to AKA
- Multiple parents resolved (except for adoptions, etc.) (i121712 re Lori Renolds email)
- Possible duplicate name entries rechecked
- Membership cleanup (remove inactive members)
- Start the newsletter
- Public comments and memorials for each person?
- Help videos made and implemented