I found an article on Dick Eastman's site- Eastman's Online Genealogy
Newsletter. I am including the article (below).
I decided to take a look at Wikitree. It definitely is interesting and I
applaud their desire to create "one family tree" although I see some problems.
They had some initial problems with people downloading large gedcoms that
belonged to other people. One of the gedcom's downloaded was a Canby family
line. This guy downloaded thousands of people. Since that time, Wiki tree
management has taken over some of these profiles which created "orphaned"
profiles. These profiles are up for adoption. I have adopted several of the
orphaned Canby's.
A problem I also see is that the sources people are placing on wiki tree is
"ancestry tree". As far as I am concerned, this is not a source, but more
copying, which perpetuates inaccurate information.
I suggest that everyone goes on and looks at wiki tree. I think it is a good
place for possible collaboration. I hope people will add their Canby
information on here. Perhaps we can help keep our Canby lines accurate and with
good source information.
The following announcement was written by WikiTree:
3 Oct 2012:
WikiTree.com is now inviting all genealogists and family historians
to register for a free membership.
WikiTree closed registration in January 2012. This was done to give the WikiTree
community time to absorb the flood of information that had been added by people
who registered for a free membership and uploaded GEDCOMs, but did not take the
time to integrate their genealogy into the shared family tree that the WikiTree
community is growing.
To help ensure that new members understand the mission and
aren’t just taking
advantage of free services such as unlimited private family web pages and
photos, the registration process creates a temporary and limited Guest
Membership. If the guest decides to make their membership permanent they can
either volunteer to participate in the community as a Wiki Genealogist or they
can ask if a Wiki Genealogist will help connect their family to the shared tree.
Full membership at the Wiki Genealogist level requires signing the Wiki
Genealogist Honor Code. This simple, nine-point set of rules is the foundation
of the community’s unique culture of enjoyable and productive genealogical
collaboration. It makes clear the importance of citing sources, respecting
copyrights, and maintaining privacy while still working on the common goal of
making genealogical information free and accessible.
All account levels, including unlimited Wiki Genealogist accounts, are free.
WikiTree is committed to growing a completely free shared family tree. For this
reason, the full membership needs to be limited to genealogists who share the
same vision and understand the Honor Code.
About WikiTree: Growing since 2008,
WikiTree.com is a shared family tree website
that balances privacy and collaboration. Community members privately collaborate
with close family members on modern family history and publicly collaborate with
other genealogists on deep ancestry. Since all the private and public profiles
are connected on the same system this process is helping to grow a single,
worldwide family tree that will eventually connect us all and thereby make it
free and easy for anyone to discover their roots. See
http://www.WikiTree.com.