Wiki Stats - End November 2017

The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 December 2017) now stands at 7171 (previously 7130, 7046, 7020) an increase of 41 pages during the month.     Of the total, 1438 pages (was 1411, 1350, 1348) begin with a number and are most probably a date related gleaning.     We currently have 2942 wiki pages categorised as "People", of which 2518 begin with the letter "R".
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More than half the new pages this month have been "gleanings", underlining the emphasis within TRP of supporting our People pages with transcripts of source information.

TRP Users

We ended November 2017 with 303 user accounts registered in TRP, with two new members successfully activating their account during the month. We welcome Karyn Davies and Ruth Reeves and look forward to seeing their contributions to our wiki.

TRP Outage

TRP suffered an outage from about 19h35GMT/14h35EDT on Tuesday 28 November until about 10h50 on Thursday 30 November. As far as we can ascertain no data has been lost.

As you will appreciate, we can't use TRP to provide information about any issues affecting TRP and you should always check our companion Google Site at https://sites.google.com/site/thereevesproject123/ where we post updates during outages. Please book mark https://sites.google.com/site/thereevesproject123/ in your browser now for future reference.

Another Milestone

On 8th November TRP served up its 9,000,000 page to a visitor. The information we collectively contribute here does get noticed. If you’ve yet to add information about your Reeves ancestors, then you’re missing out on potential opportunities to be noticed and make contact with Reeves cousins. (We served up our 8.0M page in February 2017 and 7.5M in early September 2016.)

I make no apology for repeating information originally posted in April 2014 under the heading "Nothing to Add? - Please Think Again."

There was a comment on the Reeves List at Rootsweb during the past month (March 2014) "..maybe a lot of people are like me and feel they really don't have anything to contribute."

Here at TRP, we feel that's highly unlikely. Each of us has at least three UNIQUE things we can contribute to TRP

• The first is pretty trivial and easy to achieve - its your real name.
• The second is to create your AboutMe page, so we understand a little more about where your R*v*s interest lie in time and place and (optionally) if you're not too shy a little about you as an individual, as well.
• And thirdly, contribute a page for your most recent R*v*s ancestor (or your R*v*s grandparent/great grandparent to avoid living individuals). If a page for the individual already exists, you can still add a "for our eyes only" paragraph explaining your relationship to the individual.

And its no co-incidence that each of those three activities is covered in our First Steps guides.

Of course, we'd love you to then go on and add more pages for your family members until you work back to the Earliest Reeves Ancestor you told us about on your "Join Us" form, or until your line intersects with a family group we already have pages for.