I’ve made the Ancestry citation tool I posted about earlier. Copy-pasted from the README file:
APIDTool, or “Fix blank Ancestry.com citations,” is a third-party addon for the genealogy application Gramps.
If you’ve ever imported a GEDCOM file from Ancestry.com into Gramps, you may have noticed a lot of blank sources and citations, with nothing to distinguish them but the “_APID” attribute. The APIDTool fills in blank source titles and citations with the _APID, so that they can more easily be distinguished, edited, and merged.
For best results, use immediately after importing a GEDCOM file downloaded from Ancestry.com, without previously running the “Merge citations” tool.
This is a very new tool and may have bugs. Functionality may be added or changed in the near future. To install, download a .zip file of the repository and unzip in your gramps60/plugins directory. This tool will not work with any version of GRAMPS older than 6.0.
I’ve also forked hgboldt’s WikiTree integration gramplet, and I’m in the process of updating it to use WikiTree’s preferred formatting rather than pure WikiCode. This has the unfortunate side effect that the parser-composer-WebKit trio of optional dependencies will no longer properly format the raw code. Oh well, it already has that problem when viewing a lot of existing WikiTree articles, and trying to update it to use WebKit2-4.1 causes libsoup errors (explained here: Gramps doesn't recognize any of my WebKit packages - #7 by EConnolly ). Maybe sometime I’ll look into a simpler way of parsing the formatting, but that’s a lower priority than getting markdown that can easily be copied and pasted into WikiTree.
I’m sure these addons will help the Gramps community at large. Thanks for your contribution.
You mentioned you forked the Wikitree integration gramplet, and I’m wondering if you see a way to merge your changes to the original so that there’s only one gramplet, perhaps with an option to provide the alternate behavior you’ve implemented? Keep in mind I haven’t used this gramplet, so I don’t really know anything about it, just asking from the point of view of consolidating source code.
I could certainly make a pull request. Mr. Boldt himself would have to approve it before it could become integrated into the original codebase, and he hasn’t been active on GitHub recently so I wasn’t sure if he’d be reachable. Somehow it only just occurred to me to look him up on WikiTree and he has been intermittently active there, so I really should get in touch with him.
@ukulelehans opted out of Facebook a while back and moved to Mastodon and Bluesky
(See his blog. I looked at those services but always felt like these was more “pertinent content” that was kept out of sight and easy access.) There’s an email contact address in his GitHub README.md file.
He also has his “Tangled Web” integration that creates a Gramps driven WordPress genealogy website.
His activity in Gramps has waned as other interests consume his time. His Gramplets have remained as manual installs since the approval process for the official addons-source repository was too onerous while he was active. (Actually, his experience was one of the prime motivators to get addon updates moving again.)
I just noticed this discussion. If someone wants to carry the ball on this gramplet, I’m totally okay with that, During the COVID lockdown, I had plenty of time on my hands to do some gramplet coding. These days though, my main interest is in adding data to my gramps database. (Not to mention other interests and activities.)
Regarding this gramplet, there’s one aspect that I was never satisfied with: the handling of sources/citations. What I ended up with doesn’t meet WikiTree’s standards. I just never found a solution I was happy with.
Ideally, I’d like to see a WikiTree gramplet that will fully update or create a WT profile with one button. However, I don’t see WT ever providing the necessary API improvements to make that possible. Even with what I coded, I suspect I was taking liberties with WT’s intentions for their API.