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Explain what constitutes a "Contribution"

Douglas McPhaden
Douglas McPhaden ✭✭
December 11, 2021 edited December 27, 2021 in General Questions

In the "My Contributions" first page define what constitutes a contribution.

This could get long because the information should be exhaustive. It will have to cover why some changes are not contributions and others not. Examples are why is detaching a duplicate "Couple may have children" Research Help a contribution, while digging into a historical document to glean a date for the event and entering it into the source citation is not a contribution.

Near the definition should be simple, easy ways to suggest changes that should become contributions. Patrons could suggest changes maybe don't rise to the level of a contributions. Managing contributions could allow FamilySearh help steer patron's work in the directions that help FamilySearh achieve its goals.

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  • genthusiast
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    December 12, 2021 edited December 12, 2021
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    https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/track-your-contributions-to-the-family-tree-with-new-feature

    MY CHANGES tab seems most relevant to your idea. In the Changes column you see various classifications of 'Contributions' - Sources, Person, Relationship - there are many. Relationship linkage makes multiple 'Changes' to Persons in the Tree. You can use OPTIONS to filter the view by Person or per Change.

    You are right - it's not easy to correlate Changes to Contributions. For example Ctrl+F doesn't search the extended Changes list - only a limited way down the page. Perhaps you are wanting an 'indicator' for which Changes are 'counted' as 'Contributions'? I don't see the need to define what is a 'Contribution' - but it might help if there were an 'indicator' next to Changes that are counted as such.

    For example, Record Hints are suggestions for actions that may result in a 'Contribution'. I notice Record Hint Rejected as one of the Changes 'types'. However, I don't know whether that 'Change' is counted as a 'Contribution'.

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