History of wikitree

The changes to the source code of this entry in the repository, newest first, each with the differences it made to the entry's files. They are also listed on GitLab.

2026-11-03 [entries] Add the date when each entry was added, and remove icon_hash by Tiago de Paula Peixoto beff7c9

The dates are those of the commits that first added the entries' files
(2020-08-11 for the entries of the initial commit); renamed entries keep
the date of their first name.

Changed: none

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index 26e87d7..56ce4e2 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ The network has the following properties:
 tags = ['Social', 'Relationships', 'Unweighted', 'Multigraph']
 url = 'https://data4goodlab.github.io/MichaelFire/#section3'
 citation = [('M. Fire, & Y. Elovici, "Data mining of online genealogy datasets for revealing lifespan patterns in human population." ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 6(2), 28 (2015)', 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4276')]
-icon_hash = '59fe986aee01e9ab21ac7fcc'
+date_added = '2020-08-11'
 upstream_license = None
 upstream_prefix = 'https://data4goodlab.github.io/MichaelFire/datasets'
 # The original host no longer serves the files; they are preserved in the

2026-11-03 [entries] Prefix the properties in the descriptions with (Node), (Edge) or (Graph) by Tiago de Paula Peixoto bc3dbbd

The lists of properties at the end of the descriptions marked edge
properties with "Edge" but left node properties unmarked, or grouped
them in "Nodes: `a`, ...; `b`, ..." items, so the kind of a property
was often unclear. Every item now starts with (Node), (Edge) or (Graph),
followed by the property names, a colon and the explanation, one item
per property or group of properties; qualifications (kinds of nodes,
networks) follow the names in parentheses. Properties that were only
named got a short explanation, and a few items that named the wrong
kind of property were corrected.

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index f69cf73..26e87d7 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ description = """Network of family relationships among the profiles of WikiTree,
 
 The network has the following properties:
 
-- `name`: the anonymized profile identifier.
-- `type`: the type of the relationship, coded as an integer from 0 to 3 (stored as a string, since 1,066 edges have no type, given by an empty string). The meaning of the codes is not documented in the upstream data (the cited paper analyzes parent–child and spouse relationships)."""
+- (Node) `name`: the anonymized profile identifier.
+- (Edge) `type`: the type of the relationship, coded as an integer from 0 to 3 (stored as a string, since 1,066 edges have no type, given by an empty string). The meaning of the codes is not documented in the upstream data (the cited paper analyzes parent–child and spouse relationships)."""
 tags = ['Social', 'Relationships', 'Unweighted', 'Multigraph']
 url = 'https://data4goodlab.github.io/MichaelFire/#section3'
 citation = [('M. Fire, & Y. Elovici, "Data mining of online genealogy datasets for revealing lifespan patterns in human population." ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 6(2), 28 (2015)', 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4276')]

2026-11-02 [entries] Remove unneeded code from the entries by Tiago de Paula Peixoto 2c69f19

Unneeded "global files" statements, unused imports and variables,
f-strings without placeholders, duplicate keys in foodweb_little_rock
(keeping the order and the values used), and the second definition of
get_lines() in twitter_higgs. Nothing changes in the networks or
descriptions.

Changed: none

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index fd23827..f69cf73 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ def fetch_upstream(force=False):
 @coerce_props()
 @annotate()
 def parse(alts=None):
-    global files
     name = __name__.split(".")[-1]
     for fnames, alt, fmt in files:
         if alts is not None and alt not in alts:

2026-10-25 [entries] Fix parse bugs and improve descriptions and metadata by Tiago de Paula Peixoto 6bb6851

- parse fixes from the review of the descriptions, e.g. us_patents
  (directed), celegans_2019 (synapse direction), ecoli_transcription and
  yeast_transcription (regulator to target), bitcoin (direction, phantom
  node), ego_social (Google+ features and circles), scotus_majority,
  arxiv_authors and social_location (as in SNAP), caida_as, dnc, dom,
  mist, reuters and bibsonomy (names on the right nodes), uci_zoo
- every description now states explicitly what the nodes and edges
  represent; corrected titles, years, tags, citations and licences
- the "Hypergraph" tag is removed; very large entries are marked
  `huge = True` (see --skip-huge)
- ICON ids of partial duplicates added (hiv_transmission, congress_bills,
  openflights, dutch_school)

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index 0704739..fd23827 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -19,12 +19,12 @@
 from .. import *
 
 title = "WikiTree genealogies (1400-2012)"
-description = """Network of family relationships among the profiles of WikiTree, a collaborative online genealogy website, collected by M. Fire and Y. Elovici, who used it to study the lifespans of people and their relatives. Nodes are profiles of persons (anonymized), and directed edges are relationships between them. The network has about 1.4 million nodes and 9.2 million edges.
+description = """Network of family relationships among the profiles of WikiTree, a collaborative online genealogy website, collected by M. Fire and Y. Elovici, who used it to study the lifespans of people and their relatives. Nodes are profiles of persons (anonymized), and directed edges are relationships between them (the meaning of the edge direction is not documented). The network has about 1.4 million nodes and 9.2 million edges.
 
 The network has the following properties:
 
 - `name`: the anonymized profile identifier.
-- `type`: the type of the relationship, coded as an integer from 0 to 3. The meaning of the codes is not documented in the upstream data (the cited paper analyzes parent–child and spouse relationships)."""
+- `type`: the type of the relationship, coded as an integer from 0 to 3 (stored as a string, since 1,066 edges have no type, given by an empty string). The meaning of the codes is not documented in the upstream data (the cited paper analyzes parent–child and spouse relationships)."""
 tags = ['Social', 'Relationships', 'Unweighted', 'Multigraph']
 url = 'https://data4goodlab.github.io/MichaelFire/#section3'
 citation = [('M. Fire, & Y. Elovici, "Data mining of online genealogy datasets for revealing lifespan patterns in human population." ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 6(2), 28 (2015)', 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4276')]

2026-10-25 [entries] Fix parse bugs and improve the metadata of existing entries by Tiago de Paula Peixoto c996a0e

From a review of the dataset descriptions against the upstream sources
and papers, and from user reports:

- parse fixes (wrong edge direction or directedness, shifted or
  misnamed properties, merged node identities, duplicated or missing
  edges and nodes, wrong types), e.g. arxiv_citation (the HepTh dates
  were a copy of the HepPh ones; now from the KDD Cup 2003 data),
  eu_procurements, foursquare_global, hiv_transmission, genetic_multiplex,
  gnutella (adds the 05 snapshot), roadnet, macaque_neural, python_dependency
- descriptions rewritten from the upstream sources, documenting every
  property
- corrected titles, citations and DOIs, licences (ustream_license typo,
  the data's own terms), tags and ICON ids
- url lists for entries with several sources or dataset pages
- SocioPatterns entries moved to the site's new data location, with the
  daily networks of sp_infectious and sp_primary_school
- the Michael Fire entries marked as orphans (served from the mirror)
- redundant type forcings removed after the graph-tool coercion fixes

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index e1190ac..0704739 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -19,14 +19,21 @@
 from .. import *
 
 title = "WikiTree genealogies (1400-2012)"
-description = """A multigraph network representing child-parent connections among family members, collected in 2012 from WikiTree, an online genealogical website with 13+ million profiles. Nodes are people born between 1400 and 2012, and a directed edge connects a parent to their child.[^icon]
-[^icon]: Description obtained from the [ICON](https://icon.colorado.edu) project."""
+description = """Network of family relationships among the profiles of WikiTree, a collaborative online genealogy website, collected by M. Fire and Y. Elovici, who used it to study the lifespans of people and their relatives. Nodes are profiles of persons (anonymized), and directed edges are relationships between them. The network has about 1.4 million nodes and 9.2 million edges.
+
+The network has the following properties:
+
+- `name`: the anonymized profile identifier.
+- `type`: the type of the relationship, coded as an integer from 0 to 3. The meaning of the codes is not documented in the upstream data (the cited paper analyzes parent–child and spouse relationships)."""
 tags = ['Social', 'Relationships', 'Unweighted', 'Multigraph']
 url = 'https://data4goodlab.github.io/MichaelFire/#section3'
 citation = [('M. Fire, & Y. Elovici, "Data mining of online genealogy datasets for revealing lifespan patterns in human population." ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 6(2), 28 (2015)', 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4276')]
 icon_hash = '59fe986aee01e9ab21ac7fcc'
-ustream_license = None
+upstream_license = None
 upstream_prefix = 'https://data4goodlab.github.io/MichaelFire/datasets'
+# The original host no longer serves the files; they are preserved in the
+# netzschleuder mirror
+orphan = True
 files = [('wikitree.zip:wikitree/wikitree_anon.csv', None,
           ("csv", dict(props=["type"])))]

2026-10-24 Update copyright information by Tiago de Paula Peixoto 73a4f0d

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index 05227ee..e1190ac 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2020-2024 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2026 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 # the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free

2024-05-27 Update copyright information by Tiago de Paula Peixoto 3d288ea

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index 7c5d8ea..05227ee 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2020-2023 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2024 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 # the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free

2023-02-19 Update copyright information by Tiago de Paula Peixoto 8d005ae

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index e3da8be..7c5d8ea 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2021 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2023 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 # the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free

2023-02-19 Update upstream for https://data4goodlab.github.io/ by Tiago de Paula Peixoto 43c55e3

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index f0d400d..e3da8be 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -22,11 +22,11 @@ title = "WikiTree genealogies (1400-2012)"
 description = """A multigraph network representing child-parent connections among family members, collected in 2012 from WikiTree, an online genealogical website with 13+ million profiles. Nodes are people born between 1400 and 2012, and a directed edge connects a parent to their child.[^icon]
 [^icon]: Description obtained from the [ICON](https://icon.colorado.edu) project."""
 tags = ['Social', 'Relationships', 'Unweighted', 'Multigraph']
-url = 'https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fire/#section3'
+url = 'https://data4goodlab.github.io/MichaelFire/#section3'
 citation = [('M. Fire, & Y. Elovici, "Data mining of online genealogy datasets for revealing lifespan patterns in human population." ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 6(2), 28 (2015)', 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4276')]
 icon_hash = '59fe986aee01e9ab21ac7fcc'
 ustream_license = None
-upstream_prefix = 'https://www.ise.bgu.ac.il/faculty/fire/datasets'
+upstream_prefix = 'https://data4goodlab.github.io/MichaelFire/datasets'
 files = [('wikitree.zip:wikitree/wikitree_anon.csv', None,
           ("csv", dict(props=["type"])))]

2021-06-22 Update copyright info by Tiago de Paula Peixoto db2efcc

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index 6e49647..f0d400d 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #! /usr/bin/env python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
-# Copyright (C) 2020 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
+# Copyright (C) 2021 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
 #
 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
 # the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free

2020-09-15 Change license from GPLv3 to AGPLv3 by Tiago de Paula Peixoto d754be5

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index 3e8c24b..6e49647 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -3,18 +3,18 @@
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2020 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
 #
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+# the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free
+# Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
+# later version.
 #
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
+# FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Affero General Public License for more
+# details.
 #
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along
+# with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
 from .. import *

2020-09-13 Add explicit attribution to descriptions obtained from ICON by Tiago de Paula Peixoto 1645314

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
index 07d5d78..3e8c24b 100644
--- a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -19,7 +19,8 @@
 from .. import *
 
 title = "WikiTree genealogies (1400-2012)"
-description = "A multigraph network representing child-parent connections among family members, collected in 2012 from WikiTree, an online genealogical website with 13+ million profiles. Nodes are people born between 1400 and 2012, and a directed edge connects a parent to their child."
+description = """A multigraph network representing child-parent connections among family members, collected in 2012 from WikiTree, an online genealogical website with 13+ million profiles. Nodes are people born between 1400 and 2012, and a directed edge connects a parent to their child.[^icon]
+[^icon]: Description obtained from the [ICON](https://icon.colorado.edu) project."""
 tags = ['Social', 'Relationships', 'Unweighted', 'Multigraph']
 url = 'https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fire/#section3'
 citation = [('M. Fire, & Y. Elovici, "Data mining of online genealogy datasets for revealing lifespan patterns in human population." ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 6(2), 28 (2015)', 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4276')]

2020-08-11 Initial commit by Tiago de Paula Peixoto cc85872

diff --git a/entries/wikitree/__init__.py b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..07d5d78
--- /dev/null
+++ b/entries/wikitree/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+#! /usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2020 Tiago de Paula Peixoto <tiago@skewed.de>
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+from .. import *
+
+title = "WikiTree genealogies (1400-2012)"
+description = "A multigraph network representing child-parent connections among family members, collected in 2012 from WikiTree, an online genealogical website with 13+ million profiles. Nodes are people born between 1400 and 2012, and a directed edge connects a parent to their child."
+tags = ['Social', 'Relationships', 'Unweighted', 'Multigraph']
+url = 'https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~fire/#section3'
+citation = [('M. Fire, & Y. Elovici, "Data mining of online genealogy datasets for revealing lifespan patterns in human population." ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST) 6(2), 28 (2015)', 'https://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4276')]
+icon_hash = '59fe986aee01e9ab21ac7fcc'
+ustream_license = None
+upstream_prefix = 'https://www.ise.bgu.ac.il/faculty/fire/datasets'
+files = [('wikitree.zip:wikitree/wikitree_anon.csv', None,
+          ("csv", dict(props=["type"])))]
+
+def fetch_upstream(force=False):
+    return fetch_upstream_files(__name__.split(".")[-1], upstream_prefix, files,
+                                force)
+
+@cache_network()
+@coerce_props()
+@annotate()
+def parse(alts=None):
+    global files
+    name = __name__.split(".")[-1]
+    for fnames, alt, fmt in files:
+        if alts is not None and alt not in alts:
+            continue
+        if isinstance(fnames, str):
+            fnames = [fnames]
+        with ExitStack() as stack:
+            fs = [stack.enter_context(open_upstream_file(name, fn, "rb")) for fn in fnames]
+            g = parse_graph(fs, fmt, directed=True)
+        yield alt, g