Wiki Stats - End October 2024

The total number of pages in the Wiki (as at 1 November 2024) now stands at 14671 (previously 14587 14564, 14498), an increase of 84 pages during this month.   Of the total, 3014 pages (was 2970, 2958 (corrected from 2983), 2950) begin with a number and are most probably a date related gleaning.   We currently have 6586 wiki pages categorised as "People", of which 6058 begin with the letter "R".

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TRP Users

During October we have received four new enquiries about membership of TRP, two less than the previous two months. We ended the month with 577 user accounts registered in TRP, an increase of three over the previous month. We had two users successfully activated their account during October and we welcome Donald W. Reeves Jr. and Jacob Potts to the TRP Community. Neither have yet created an AboutMe page; hopefully they will both do so soon.

If you are having issues activating your account or have simply lost interest, 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 or have subsequently decided you don't want to join our community. If you are not yet a member and would like to contribute to our community, please see our About Us page to find out a little more about TRP and then please complete our Join Us form to start the membership enrolment process.

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 (small) name label badge; so your first name plus the surname by which you are presently known (or at least the 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. Those same First Steps are also a great refresher for anybody returning to The Reeves Project after a period away.

DNA Group 24

On 17 October 2024, Beverly announced to our companion Reeves DNA Project at Family Tree DNA that the most recent results for Clyde, who joined TRP last month, were a close match to another set of results which had been sitting in the ungrouped pool since 2015. Their match is 34/37, close enough to justify the creation of a new DNA grouping. DNA Group 24.

In the Pipeline

We're not yet quiet ready, but we are gearing ourselves up to start doing some testing over the coming months. Initially we'll be focusing on upgrading the version of the operating system underpinning the wiki software we use. Once we've accomplished that, we'll move on to look at refreshing the wiki software itself. But we'll still need to test that the current wiki software behaves as expected on the new OS platform.

By way of reminder, for our testing we use a copy of the live wiki to make sure that, as far as we are able, everything works as we expect. That copy will include all of the "watches" individual users may have set on specific wiki pages. So if our testing changes the cloned copy of one of the pages you've set a watch on, you will get an e-mail telling you the page has been changed. If you get a watch notification from e-mail address "T.Notifier", please disregard it, that will be us testing.