Gramps 6.0 Wiki manual Stub eradication

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If anyone wants to help contribute in the Wiki, here’s a great target:
The Gramps 6.0 User Manual has a LOT of 5.1 version (and a few 5.2) feature “Stub” markers that indicate sections that have been incomplete… many have been lanquishing for years.

Adding the missing content for the 6.0 release will reassure new users evaluating the new release. It also means that, after the next rollover for the manual, we would only have to improve the pages where features have changed or been added for 5.2 and 6.0.

Stubs can be found by searching the following pages for the phrase: “Please update or expand this section”.

Total of 68 Stubs remaining for the wiki user manual as @ 2025/06/22

The Stub Category finds 402 pages. This includes multiple languages and pages that are only partially written.

The list above above includes just the English language main manual pages with Stubs.

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We need a volunteer to work on the Stubs related to Reports.

Reports aren’t an area where I’m inclined to do much exploring. (Too many other active projects.)

There was a tool to generate samples Reports. And thumbnails would probably make narrowing down which built-in or addon Reports easier.

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While eradicating a stub for the Adding photos and other media objects section of the “Entering and editing data: brief” wiki page, I wanted to expand on use of the Add Images not included in database feature in the Media Manager from the menu.

However, the Add Images not included in database subsection in the Tool :arrow_right: Utilities → Media Manager wiki article is … not comprehensive.

Can someone describe what directories this feature scans? And what what file types it chooses to add to the Media category?

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@emyoulation fyi this is linked to by the Gramps 6.0 user manual announcement The stub section on the wiki now only shows stubs for 6.0.

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Yes. Sam contacted me. The validation is a hand-done process. Give me a bit of time to convert it to a validated 6.0 checklist. (I don’t think there is any need to make a separate thread for history. The <del> tags are good enough to indicate that progress is being made in clearing sutbs.)

I have validated that the Stubs in the 5.2 manual were stripped out in the rollover process before freezing. It looks like the “Stub_stagnant” tags have been cleared from all the old version pages too. So the wiki is down to 397 pages with stubs.

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Made a pass at the stub about Tags, incorporated your description from the Gramps Glossary.

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Cleaned this section up and simplified it a bit and checked the rest of the page and found a broken template. Probably could be better.

So one more stub gone and 72 to go!

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Don’t be discouraged if the Stub count bounces back up.

It started in the mid 90s, we cleared a few dozen and then a bunch more were added.

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Updated the Compare Individual Events tool entry.

71 stubs to go!

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Thank you @gioto for your efforts. May I ask a question?

What are the use cases for this “Compare Individual Events” tool?

An example or two, perhaps 4 sentences, might allow a Gramps-newbie individual to see how this tool could apply to them.

In this stub’s case, the existing screenshots provided don’t seem to show what the problem being addressed actually is, nor why this tool might help.

brian

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It seems to be a Vital Statistics summary comparison. Probably useful for disambiguation of suspected duplicates and inconsistencies.

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Aha! Thank you @emyoulation.
Context is everything!
Perhaps you could cut and past those two sentences into the article on the wiki for future-me and others.
brian

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Wiki entry updated.

Note that @emyoulation asked the question back in 2020 and @prculley responded with:

This tool is really a kind of report, in my opinion. It looks at all the
filtered people, and creates a table of their events. If a person has more
than one event of a certain type, (perhaps two birth events with different
data from different sources), the table will have multiple lines under the
name. You can then visually ‘compare’ the events to see the differences.
It is also easy to see missing event types.

The table can also be saved as a spreadsheet for reference while working on
your data.

I’ve left that text as a hidden note to be incorporated at a latter stage, my focus is really on updating the screenshots for Gramps 6.0 and eliminating the stubs if I have time.

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Added a new section Using Undo History to the Navigation page with a rough outline gathered from various sources that could do with somebody else having a look please.

So stubs back to 72.

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