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November 2010 and subsequent months
I've noticed some fairly blank tree pages among the things that have gone wrong since Dick Eastman kindly sent us a few score of new contributors on Remembrance Day 2010. I've not bothered to try to fix most of the apparent errors.

The other day I looked at one of Thurstan's new creations, a tree page, and was surprised to see that it had most of what I would expect. Then I looked at what has been one of our best advertisements, Charlemagne/tree, and saw nothing but Charlemagne and some empty boxes and lines. So Thurstan hadn't unlocked the secret entirely. But he said he had been re-saving sensor pages and tree pages to get some of them to show more. So I had another look at Charlemagne/tree about an hour ago and did some re-saving as suggested, and made progress. The great man's parents appeared. I turned attention to his father Pepin and repeated the process: Pepin's tree had been similarly empty but now resumed showing Pepin's parents! Back to Charlemagne, re-save his sensor page and his tree, and his father's parents appeared in his tree. Same with his mother eventually, but with less visual excitement because they don't have pictures.

There must be a better way. But hey, this is far better than the totally manual methods we had to use two years ago!

— Robin Patterson (Talk) 13:24, January 17, 2011 (UTC)