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 72 Stubs remaining for the wiki user manual.

The Stub Category finds nearly 400 (397) 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.