What Is "Tree Building Project?"
Anyone know what this is? Is this some sort of volunteer because this is scary if so. Volunteers have a tendency to really mess up things because they don't really know about your families like you do.
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This project has been discussed at considerable length over the last 2+ years.
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@StephenDespot, in summary:
"TreeBuilding Project", "US Census Project", "CommunityCensusProject", plus variations of those names are automated computer scripts created by Brigham Young University's Record Linking Lab.
Any username that starts with "treehelper_" are human student volunteers at BYU.
BYU's RLL has a separate user agreement with FamilySearch in which BYU is not held to the same, higher/stricter standards for data entry as us regular FS users.
At the end of the post in Áine's reply above is a link to the following post.
@MandyShaw1 submitted an incredibly thorough abuse report regarding BYU RLL and she continues to update it as more abuse is discovered:3 -
Since the 2 threads referenced above have both been closed, this is probably the best place to mention that (by pure chance) I gave the BYU RLL data quality report quite a big update yesterday. Link, as before, BYU RLL Data Quality issues report.pdf.
The changes, in summary, are:
- Coverage of Living versus Deceased issues
- Clarification re the APIs used by BYU RLL (and of the apparent lack of associated usage constraints)
- Refreshed datasets for the examples
- Removed incorrect information from Reference 4
- Minor changes to improve clarity and readability
Could a mod make sure the new version reaches the internal team that was looking at the DQ ticket for the previous submission, please. Thanks.
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Because this topic has been thoroughly discussed in other threads, this thread is now closed. @MandyShaw1 your report will be passed on.
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