Wiki Stats - End May 2021

A quick glance at the graph below may be deceptive; there really is a small sliver of white at the top right corner as we're currently 16 pages short of 11,000.
The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 June 2021) now stands at 10984 (previously 10869, 10841, 10759), a magnificent increase of 115 pages during the month. Of the total, 2131 pages (was 2102, 2102, 2063) begin with a number and are most probably a date related gleaning.     We currently have 4779 wiki pages categorised as "People", of which 4269 begin with the letter "R".

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Of those 115 new pages, just over half (well 61 to be exact) began with the letter R and are therefore most likely a Person Page for a new R*v*(s) individual. However, the number of pages categorised as "People" and beginning with the letter "R" has increase by 139 during this month. Jonathan worked some programming magic to identify pages which looked like People Pages but which were not appropriately categorised. Some pages were from TRP's pre-history period, some created by new users who didn't follow our guidance to use the "Add New Wiki Page" feature and some created when that feature wasn't functioning as intended after an upgrade long ago. He has then manually updated each of those pages he identified - thank you.

TRP Users

We ended May 2021 with 468 user accounts registered in TRP, a increase of three over the previous month.   We had four users successfully activated their account during the past month.

We welcome to our community Vicki, Roland, Kathleen and Holly. Both Vicki and Holly have successfully created an AboutMe page for themselves and both have dropped by their respective Mentor Team 's talk page to say "Hi". Well done.

Whether you joined TRP recently or a while ago, if you have yet to do so, please set a meaningful name for yourself as described in First Steps - Part 1. It isn't difficult and only takes a couple of minutes to do. If it helps, think of it as a name label badge; so your first name plus surname (or at least surname initial) would generally be a good choice. You'll find links to the remainder of the our six part First Steps as part of the FAQ - First Steps.

If you have already started the enrolment process and are having issues, please do let us know. Please contact New User Admin by sending an email to TRP123 (at) TheReevesProject (dot) org if you're stuck and need help. If you are not yet a member and would like to contribute to our community, please complete our Join Us form to start the membership enrolment process.

Small World Syndrome?

Coincidences seem to abound in our genealogical journeys and we all know to be cautious and not jump to (wrong) assumptions.

In the typical month we'll perhaps receive half a dozen requests to join TRP. Of those only half follow through by confirming their e-mail address and then activating the account we create for them at TRP.

In the closing days of this month we received two "join" requests within a 24 hour period, which is pretty unusual. But even more striking was the fact that both individuals cited the same Earliest Reeves Ancestor. I wonder if they know each other? Thus far only one of them has claimed their account. We'll make sure both parties are assigned to the same Mentor Team so they can say Hi.