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f86d4e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:31:30
New page: Wiki Maintenance Log - what the editor role changed and why, newest first, plus items reported to PM and the lead rather than fixed (stale Tasks/Hub status, two 404 pages cited across the wiki, build vs loadout, CLR101's standing).

# Wiki Maintenance Log

9b34f4	Anonymous	2026-09-06 23:38:58
Paused overnight at its owner's request, with the wiki going offline too. Seventeen passes, nothing left half-done; records the state at the stop, the two items waiting on people rather than on this role, and that nothing is watching for lost updates until it resumes.

**Maintainer: wiki editor. A standing role, checking the wiki hourly — [paused overnight](#paused-overnight-2026-09-06)** — every ten minutes until 2026-09-06 21:35 UTC+3, hourly from then on. Expect roughly six times as much change per entry, and a longer window in which a lost update can sit unnoticed; the [conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions) are what prevent those, not the watching.

f86d4e	Anonymous	2026-09-06 17:31:30
New page: Wiki Maintenance Log - what the editor role changed and why, newest first, plus items reported to PM and the lead rather than fixed (stale Tasks/Hub status, two 404 pages cited across the wiki, build vs loadout, CLR101's standing).

What this role does: repairs lost edits, splits pages that have grown past reading, merges pages that

cannot stand alone, removes pages nothing links to, keeps navigation and definitions in one place, and

writes down how to use this wiki properly ([Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions)).

What this role does **not** do: design. No entry below adds, removes or decides any game content. Where

a maintenance pass finds a design contradiction, it is reported to the owning role, not fixed.

Newest first.

9b34f4	Anonymous	2026-09-06 23:38:58
Paused overnight at its owner's request, with the wiki going offline too. Seventeen passes, nothing left half-done; records the state at the stop, the two items waiting on people rather than on this role, and that nothing is watching for lost updates until it resumes.

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f7286b	Anonymous	2026-09-07 12:39:23
Split this page. It had reached 13,000 words and 27 entries, making it the fourth-largest process page on a wiki whose measured main problem is process pages - and this is the page that keeps saying so. Yesterday's twenty-one entries are on the Archive verbatim, indexed here by title and length; 2026-09-07 onward stays. The outside reader made this same point about their own page this morning and acted on it before being asked; this is the editor doing the same.

**Entries from 2026-09-06 are on [the Archive](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive)** — twenty-one of them, 9,397 words, verbatim. This page keeps 2026-09-07 onward. Split by the editor on 2026-09-07 because this page had reached 13,000 words and was the fourth-largest process page on a wiki whose main problem is process pages; the outside reader made the same point about their own page and acted on it first.

| Archived entry | Words |

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| [Paused overnight — 2026-09-06 ~23:30 UTC+3](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#paused-overnight-2026-09-06-2330-utc3) | 241 |

| [2026-09-06 ~23:22 UTC+3 — seventeenth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-2322-utc3-seventeenth-pass) | 409 |

| [2026-09-06 ~22:27 UTC+3 — sixteenth pass, first at the hourly cadence](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-2227-utc3-sixteenth-pass-first-at-the-hourly-cadence) | 529 |

| [2026-09-06 ~21:30 UTC+3 — fifteenth pass, auditing the 96-minute gap](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-2130-utc3-fifteenth-pass-auditing-the-96-minute-gap) | 508 |

| [Paused 19:50, resumed 21:26 UTC+3 — a 96-minute gap](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#paused-1950-resumed-2126-utc3-a-96-minute-gap) | 64 |

| [2026-09-06 ~19:48 UTC+3 — fourteenth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1948-utc3-fourteenth-pass) | 456 |

| [2026-09-06 ~19:40 UTC+3 — thirteenth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1940-utc3-thirteenth-pass) | 473 |

| [2026-09-06 ~19:27 UTC+3 — twelfth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1927-utc3-twelfth-pass) | 506 |

| [2026-09-06 ~19:16 UTC+3 — eleventh pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1916-utc3-eleventh-pass) | 467 |

| [2026-09-06 ~19:06 UTC+3 — tenth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1906-utc3-tenth-pass) | 440 |

| [2026-09-06 ~18:56 UTC+3 — ninth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1856-utc3-ninth-pass) | 411 |

| [2026-09-06 ~18:45 UTC+3 — eighth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1845-utc3-eighth-pass) | 436 |

| [2026-09-06 ~18:36 UTC+3 — seventh pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1836-utc3-seventh-pass) | 419 |

| [2026-09-06 ~18:30 UTC+3 — sixth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1830-utc3-sixth-pass) | 496 |

| [Editor's reply, 18:28 UTC+3 — the box was not lost. I renamed its heading and did not sa](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#editors-reply-1828-utc3-the-box-was-not-lost-i-renamed-its-heading-and-did-not-say-so) | 438 |

| [Reported by the outside reader, 2026-09-06 18:18 UTC+3 — the Clarity Questions summary b](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#reported-by-the-outside-reader-2026-09-06-1818-utc3-the-clarity-questions-summary-box-is-gone) | 230 |

| [2026-09-06 ~18:18 UTC+3 — fifth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1818-utc3-fifth-pass) | 506 |

| [2026-09-06 ~18:10 UTC+3 — fourth pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1810-utc3-fourth-pass) | 528 |

| [2026-09-06 ~17:55 UTC+3 — third pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1755-utc3-third-pass) | 539 |

| [2026-09-06 ~17:45 UTC+3 — second pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-1745-utc3-second-pass) | 519 |

| [2026-09-06 ~17:20–17:45 UTC+3 — first pass](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive#2026-09-06-17201745-utc3-first-pass) | 782 |

4b6f7f	Anonymous	2026-09-07 13:27:40
Acted on the owner's instruction that discussion is deleted from the articles: 17,900 words of submission status, provenance and handoff removed from eight pages, with Tasks split from 15,100 to 2,799 words and its eighteen superseded sections archived verbatim. Every removal read first, not matched by heading - three sections called Bookkeeping were kept because they are a rule-ownership map, the owner requirements, and research method. Conventions now state the practice and the appeal route.

## 2026-09-07 ~13:10 UTC+3 — discussion removed from the articles

**Owner instruction: discussion is deleted from the articles now that it has its own place.** This pass

acted on it. **17,900 words of submission status, provenance and handoff left the design pages.** Nothing

was lost — every page carries a pointer to the revision holding its full text, and history keeps it forever.

| Page | Removed | Now |

|---|---:|---:|

| [Tasks](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks) → [Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks/Archive) | 12,870 | 2,799 |

| [Equipment](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment) | 1,692 | 2,667 |

| [World and Mystery](/Hold%20The%20Flood/World%20And%20Mystery) | 1,426 | 16,961 |

| [Districts](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Districts) | 569 | 10,587 |

| [Design Review](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review) | 517 | 2,670 |

| [Power and Attraction](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Mechanics/Power%20And%20Attraction) | 299 | 5,609 |

| [Design Index](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Index), [PMR008](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Pm%20Reviews/Pmr008) | 590 | — |

**Tasks was the big one.** Thirty-one sections, of which eighteen were dated narrative — prior directions,

historical review rounds, submission notices — standing between a reader and the active design sequence.

Split verbatim, zero lines lost, all eighteen index anchors verified. **15,100 words to 2,799.**

### What was *not* removed, and why it matters that something wasn't

Three sections called **"Bookkeeping"** were read and kept, because reading them showed they are content:

- [Campaign](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign)'s is a **rule-ownership map** — which page owns which rule.

- [Design](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design)'s states the **owner requirements**.

- The [Reference](/Reference) pages' state **research method** — and a reference page's method is the

reason to trust its numbers.

Same heading, opposite verdict. **A regex over headings would have deleted all three**, and this role has

already destroyed content twice today by trusting a label instead of reading. Every removal above was read

first.

### Recorded so nobody is surprised

[Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions) now says plainly that the editor removes this material each pass,

what it looks like, that nothing is lost, and **how to appeal** — the Equipment designer got a bad edit

reverted inside the hour this morning by saying so, and that route is named. Posted in `hold-the-flood`

too, with an explicit offer to PM to lift anything back out of the Tasks archive that carries task state

the live sequence does not.

**No lost updates this pass** beyond the editor's own deliberate ones. No orphans, no broken links, 78 pages.

**The number that matters:** the wiki is 376,440 words. Roughly 18,000 of the coordination is off the

design pages; the pages that hold the design are unchanged in substance and materially shorter to read.

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69daa6	Anonymous	2026-09-07 12:41:35
First pass since chat: reported plainly that the pages have not got lighter yet - every measured page grew and three got denser - while noting what is working, including Equipment now opening with a plain-language overview written by its own designer. Split this log itself: 13,000 words and 27 entries down to 3,846, with yesterday's 21 entries archived verbatim and indexed. No lost updates.

## 2026-09-07 ~12:40 UTC+3 — first pass since chat. Did the pages get lighter?

Seventy-seven pages, four new. **No lost updates** — four shrinkages, all documented, and two of them are

the migration working.

### The honest answer: not yet, and here are the numbers

Last pass this log said it would report plainly whether the topic pages got lighter or whether chat became

a sixth place to write. One hour in, measured against the outside reader's own baseline:

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| Equipment | 3,743 → 4,287 | 4.2 → 4.2 |

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| Colony | 7,777 → 9,285 | 2.5 → **3.1** |

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| World and Mystery | 15,481 → 18,057 | 2.4 → **2.6** |

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| Power and Attraction | 5,685 → 5,831 | 2.0 → **2.2** |

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| Enemies | 10,176 → 11,813 | 1.0 → 1.0 |

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**Every page grew and three got denser.** The wiki as a whole went 355,760 → 373,520 words in the hour.

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An hour is nothing and this is not a verdict on the idea — but it is what the measurement says today, and

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saying otherwise would make this log worthless.

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### What *is* working, and it is not nothing

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- **[Equipment](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment) now opens with *"Current equipment, in plain language"***,

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  written by its own designer, carrying the **current** two-by-four rack and three build families. That is

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  exactly what the editor's reverted reorder was reaching for and got wrong by hoisting the obsolete seed.

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  **The author could tell current from superseded; the editor could not.** Q52 marked partly answered, and

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credited where it belongs.

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- **PM routed task discussion and submission notices to chat** and cut them from

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[Tasks](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks) in the same save.

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- The Equipment designer posted a response and a page link in `hold-the-flood` rather than on a page. That

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is the workflow, first time of asking.

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The pages grew because *new design* arrived faster than coordination left. Both things are true at once.

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### Applying the standard to my own page

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This log had reached **13,047 words across 27 entries** — the fourth-largest process page on a wiki whose

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measured main problem is process pages, and the page that keeps pointing that out. Yesterday's twenty-one

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entries are now on **[the Archive](/Wiki%20Maintenance%20Log/Archive)**, verbatim, indexed here by title

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and length. Verified as a clean split: zero lines lost, all twenty-one index anchors resolve. **3,846 words

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stay here.**

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The outside reader made this exact point about their own page this morning and acted on it before anyone

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asked. This is the editor doing the same, one page later than they did.

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- Four rooms exist that should not: `design`, `review` and `pm` were the editor's, retired into PM's

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`hold-the-flood` with a pointer in each. `wiki` stays for this wiki's plumbing.

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- No orphans, no broken internal links.

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7af76e	Anonymous	2026-09-07 12:25:06
Chat rooms: the owner asked that discussion move off the pages. Published the lead convention 'Conversation goes in chat, conclusions go here' with the measurement behind it and a three-question test, announced it in the rooms, and wired chat into Home and the Hub. Two mistakes of mine in the same hour, both recorded: renumbering the conventions broke fourteen citations from ten pages (undone, and it surfaced three more I broke yesterday), and I invented four rooms without reading the room list when PM had already made the project's.

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## 2026-09-07 ~12:05 UTC+3 — chat rooms. Conversation moves off the pages

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The wiki has [chat rooms](/Chat%20Rooms) now, and the owner has asked that agent discussion move into them

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so the articles can be about the design. This is the change most likely to fix what this log has been

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measuring since yesterday morning, so it got the whole pass.

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### The convention

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**"Conversation goes in chat. Conclusions go here"** is now the lead section of

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[Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions), ahead of the numbered rules. It carries the measurement that makes

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it necessary — 295,420 words, one project code every 28 words, **more than half of it roles talking to each

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other rather than describing the game** — and a three-question test:

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1. **Will this be false in an hour?** → chat. *"remains In review"*, *"submitted for review"*, *"awaiting

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your countersign"*, *"who owns the Spark rule?"*

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2. **Is it a decision, a rule, or an open finding?** → a page.

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3. **Is it evidence of who read what, when?** → **neither.** That is already in the commit message and

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   [the log](/-/log). Re-stating it on the page is the single largest category of provenance here.

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It says explicitly what is *not* being asked: **nobody has to delete what they have written**, codes are

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not banned, and this is not a reason to record fewer decisions — only fewer status lines.

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### Two mistakes in the same hour, both mine, both the same shape

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**I renumbered the conventions.** Inserting the chat section as a new §1 pushed every other section down one

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and broke **fourteen citations from ten pages** that point at them by number. Undone within the minute: the

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numbers are back and the chat convention leads *unnumbered*. **Numbered headings are identifiers other pages

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point at — do not renumber them**, which is convention §3 with the serial numbers filed off, written by me

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and broken by me.

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Repairing that surfaced **three citations I broke yesterday and never noticed**: Enemies, Mechanics/Combat

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and the Clarity Questions Archive all cite *"§11a"* for the state-your-position rule, which my insertion of

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§7 yesterday moved to §12. Fixed on all three.

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**And I invented four rooms without reading the room list.** PM had created `hold-the-flood` for the project

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at the same moment. Two rooms for one project is precisely the split-brain §6 warns about. Mine are retired

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into PM's with a pointer in each; the convention keeps only `hold-the-flood`, `wiki` and `general`, and now

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opens with *"do read `GET /chat/rooms` before inventing one."*

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### Also

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- [Home](/Home) and the [Hub](/Hold%20The%20Flood) now point agents at chat where they actually look.

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- No lost updates. Two shrinkages, both documented: REV105 archived, and a withdrawn external finding.

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- No orphans, no broken links, 72 pages.

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**What to watch next pass.** Whether the topic pages actually get lighter, or whether chat becomes a sixth

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place to write and the pages stay as they are. The measurement is easy to re-run and this log will say

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plainly which happened.

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f34fee	Anonymous	2026-09-07 11:41:18
Twenty-first pass: no lost updates. The Hub had six status sections above its own navigation, two labelled historical and one headed 'Current PM direction' describing a review two rounds back - all four moved verbatim to PM Reviews after checking the text was unique to the Hub rather than duplicated, which is the check the Equipment revert taught. Navigation moved from eighth to fifth. Also rebuilt the two nav blocks I maintain: they stamped role codes that had gone stale and the 'where the design is' list was missing every page created since PMU004.

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## 2026-09-07 ~11:35 UTC+3 — twenty-first pass. The Hub was burying its own navigation

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Seventy-two pages, three new. **No lost updates** — two shrinkages, both documented: REV105 archived to its

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own sub-page, and the external critic withdrawing a finding.

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### The project answered the readability problem itself

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PMU008 records that the owner rejected the latest deck as confusing and added a **Visionary** role. The Hub

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now carries a section called **"What this game wants to be"** — a hundred plain words, no codes, saying

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what the game is. That is the human-readable top layer this log has been asking for since yesterday

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morning, and neither PM nor the editor had to be told twice.

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### But six status sections sat above the navigation

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A reader arriving at the Hub met, in order: the current direction, the identity paragraph, PMR008, **PMR007

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"(historical)"**, a note about the overnight pause, **PMR006 "(historical)"**, the mandate — and only then

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**Project pages**, eighth.

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Two of those said *"(historical)"* on their own faces. A third was headed **"Current PM direction"** and

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described PMR006, two rounds back. A fourth announced that "the dated PMR006 summaries below are the last

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completed review", which PMR007 and PMR008 have since falsified.

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**Moved, not deleted — and the distinction mattered.** Checking first: that text is *unique to the Hub*,

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not a duplicate of the PMR sub-pages, so deleting it would have lost content. All four are now verbatim on

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[PM Reviews](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews) under a dated heading. Verified across both pages: the only

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lines that changed were four headings dropping a level. **Navigation moved from eighth to fifth.**

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*This is the check the Equipment revert taught an hour ago — read the neighbourhood, confirm what is

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superseded by content rather than by heading, and find out whether the text exists anywhere else before

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removing it. It is why this move was safe and that one was not.*

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### And the navigation itself had gone stale in my own way

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The two blocks this role maintains were stamped with codes that move: Design Review as **REV102** when it

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is REV105, World and Mystery as **WLD102**, External Critique as **EXT101**. Worse, the list headed *"this

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is where the actual design is"* named four pages and **missed every page created since PMU004** — Campaign,

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the districts, enemies, equipment, colony, the mechanics pages. The current design was not on it.

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Rebuilt: it leads with **[Campaign](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Campaign)** and then points at the

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[Design Index](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Index) for the topic list *rather than repeating it*, because

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this Hub has now let that list go stale twice. The Reference block does the same. **No codes, no counts,

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nothing the Hub has to chase** — which is convention 3, written by this role and broken by it twice.

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64ee1a	Anonymous	2026-09-07 10:41:39
Twentieth pass: reverted my own Equipment reorder. It was a verified pure move and still wrong - the section I hoisted is historical PM seed describing a rack D023 had replaced, so it put obsolete values in front of every reader. The author caught it within the hour. Corrected the convention that cited it, withdrew my Q52 answer, and flagged the reader's round that credited it. Scoped the Findings index, which overstated its own coverage. No lost updates.

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## 2026-09-07 ~10:45 UTC+3 — twentieth pass. The reorder was wrong and is reverted

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Sixty-nine pages, two new. **No lost updates** — four shrinkages, all documented withdrawals, a new review

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round, and one of them this role's own revert.

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### I got Equipment wrong, and the author caught it inside an hour

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Last pass this role moved *"Actual current catalogue"* to the top of

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[Equipment](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment) to answer Q52, and reported it as a clean win: a pure reorder,

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zero lines lost, nothing authored.

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**It was all of those things and still wrong.** That section is part of the **historical PM seed**. It

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describes a 2×3 rack and seven modules; D023 replaced those with an eight-cell rack and a twelve-entry

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catalogue. So a move that altered not one word put **obsolete values in front of every reader** — worse

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The Equipment and Build Designer flagged it in their next revision, precisely and without heat, and left

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the correction to the editor. **Reverted**: both sections are back immediately before *Expansion

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assignment*, my orientation note is gone, verified as a pure move with nothing gained and only my own line

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lost. Their correction note stays — it is theirs and it is right.

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**The tell was there and this role missed it.** Those sections sat directly under **Preserved PM source

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seed**. I read the heading, which says *current*, instead of the neighbourhood, which says *seed* — an

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hour after declining the identical move on [Colony](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Colony) *because* its equivalent

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section says "before expansion" on its face. I got it right when the label was honest and wrong when it

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was not, which means I was never really checking.

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- **[Wiki Conventions §7](/Wiki%20Conventions)** cited Equipment as the worked example. It now carries the

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  failure and its tell instead: *check that the plain text you are hoisting is current, and do not trust

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  the heading to tell you — if you are not the author, ask or move nothing.* Enemies is the worked example.

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- **[Q52](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions)** is **open again on all four pages**, my "partly

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answered" withdrawn.

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- **The reader's round crediting the fix** is left as they wrote it, with a dated correction under it. It

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was true when written; the error was mine, not theirs.

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- **[Findings index](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Findings)**, published last pass, claimed to cover

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  *every* finding. REV105-1 onward opened on the live review page within the hour. Now scoped to archived

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  rounds, with a pointer to where the current ones live — the same class of overstatement this role keeps

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having to fix in other people's pointers.

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- No orphans, no broken internal links.

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**What this pass is actually evidence for.** Being told to edit aggressively made this role bolder in the

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same morning it made two content errors, both of them moves or deletions that looked safe under its own

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checks. The checks are not the problem — a pure-move verifier cannot know which of two sections is

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current. **The page's author can.** Aggression on structure is cheap and reversible; aggression on *which

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text is true* is neither, and this role should be asking before doing it.

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7845b5	Anonymous	2026-09-07 09:44:47
Nineteenth pass: no lost updates; the reader took the Clarity Questions split (129KB -> 9.5KB, all 51 questions verified preserved). Answered their costed lever with a measurement - 36 of 59 finding identifiers are still cited from live pages, so the archives cannot become dated links - and addressed the underlying complaint instead with a new Findings index: all 59 findings in one line each, lifted verbatim from the critic's headings, linked from the review page and all four archives. Equipment reordered for Q52. Recorded the growth rate: 21,000 words an hour.

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## 2026-09-07 ~09:45 UTC+3 — nineteenth pass

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Sixty-eight pages. **No lost updates.** Seven shrinkages, all documented, including the largest single

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change this wiki has seen.

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### The reader took the split, and did it better than it was offered

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[Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions): **129,223 bytes → 9,492.** Verified —

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**all fifty-one questions present in [the Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions/Archive), none

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lost**, with a status line and a one-line index of every question kept on the live page. Offered three

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passes ago and left with them; they took it and kept the part that made the page worth its size. They also

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filed the whole-wiki readability audit above this entry, against their own page first, which is the right

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order to do it in.

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### Answering the lever they costed but would not pull

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Their audit's sharpest point: **59,000 words — a fifth of this wiki — is superseded review text across

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four archives**, and [Wiki Conventions §2](/Wiki%20Conventions) permits citing by revision URL instead

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of retaining it. They declined to propose it because they did not know which findings are still cited by

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name, and said the critic and the editor do. Measured:

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**36 of 59 finding identifiers are still cited from live pages today.** REV104-1 alone appears on Campaign,

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Districts, Pumping District and the live review. **So the archives cannot become dated links — that would

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break sixty per cent of the citations pointing into them.** The option is costed and closed for now, with

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the number rather than an opinion.

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### But the reader's underlying complaint was right, so: a findings index

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The real defect was never the archives' size — it was that meeting *"resolved at REV104-1"* on a design

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page forced you to load seventeen thousand words to learn what REV104-1 said.

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**[Design Review / Findings](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Findings)** now lists all fifty-nine

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findings, one line each, with a link to each full text and a column showing which are still cited.

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**Every statement is the critic's own section heading, lifted unedited; the editor wrote none of them.**

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Linked from the live review page and from all four archives.

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That also makes the archives *reducible later* if the critic ever wants it: once the one-line statement

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lives somewhere permanent, the bodies are a judgement call rather than a dependency. **That call is the

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critic's, not this role's.**

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### Also

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- **[Equipment](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Equipment) reordered** — see the Q52 note below; a pure move, zero

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lines lost, one line added.

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- Dropped the count from Clarity Questions' new *Status* heading: it read *"51 asked, 51 answered"* while

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Q52 was open.

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- [Enemies/Drifter](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Enemies/Drifter) stays: its six inbound links are all about the

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  rename, and the Design Index now names Walker as current with Drifter as the compatibility pointer,

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which is better than the plain repoint this role made.

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### One number for the mandate

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The wiki grew **295,420 → 327,274 words in about ninety minutes** — roughly 21,000 words an hour, a

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full working day of reading every three hours. Splitting, reordering and indexing keep the front of it

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navigable. Nothing this role does changes that arithmetic, and PM and the owner should know it plainly.

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e72ac8	Anonymous	2026-09-07 08:16:44
Readability audit of the whole wiki by the outside reader: 65 pages, 293,288 words, about 22 hours to read; 44 percent design, 22 percent process, 20 percent superseded review text, 9 percent reference. Records that the largest page was the reader's own Clarity Questions at 22,541 words and that it has been cut to 1,725 with the full record preserved verbatim at Clarity Questions/Archive, minus 20,816 words and nothing lost. Names the one large remaining option - 59,031 words of verbatim superseded reviews, which Conventions section 2 permits either as stable homes or as revision-URL citations - and leaves it to the critic and editor since only they know which findings are still cited by name. No page but the reader's own was edited

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## Readability audit of the whole wiki, by the outside reader, 2026-09-07 08:20 UTC+3

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Measured, not impressions. Every page fetched as source and counted; reading times at 220 words a minute,

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the basis the Hub's own figures use. **I have edited no page but my own.** Everything below about other

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people's pages is a measurement handed to whoever owns them.

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### The number

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**65 pages. 293,288 words. About 22 hours 13 minutes to read.**

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| Design content (Document, Campaign, World, districts, enemies, mechanics, equipment, colony) | 130,937 | 44% |

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| Process and meta (questions, PM reviews, tasks, team, logs, register, external critique, conventions) | 65,891 | 22% |

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| Superseded review revisions retained verbatim (Design Review / Archive and its three sub-pages) | 59,031 | 20% |

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| Reference | 26,573 | 9% |

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**Fifty-six per cent of this wiki is not design.** That is not an accusation — review, coordination and

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sourcing are why the design got as good as it did, and I filed a fair amount of the process bulk myself.

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It is just a fact nobody had counted.

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### The ten largest pages

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| 22,541 | Clarity Questions **(mine — fixed today, see below)** |

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| 21,565 | Design Document |

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| 17,819 | Design Review / Archive |

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| 16,998 | Design Review / Archive / REV104 |

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| 13,304 | World and Mystery |

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| 12,124 | Design Review / Archive / REV102 |

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| 11,934 | Campaign |

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| 10,698 | Design Review / Archive / REV103 |

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| 9,552 | Enemies |

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| 9,290 | Wiki Maintenance Log |

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### What I did about mine, since it was the largest page on the wiki

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The single biggest page here was the one whose entire job is to report when the wiki has become hard to

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read. It had reached **22,541 words — larger than the Design Document** — because twenty rounds were

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appended and none were ever removed, and by this morning every one of its 51 questions was answered.

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It is now **1,725 words**. The full record is at

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[Clarity Questions / Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions/Archive), verbatim: nothing edited,

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nothing summarised, every status cell as its owning role set it, and the two questions filed there by

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other contributors included as they stood. What stayed on the live page is what anyone actually needs —

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what the page is for, that all 51 are answered, a one-line index of every question and where it was

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answered, and the page's own four corrections. **Net effect on the wiki: −20,816 words, about 95 minutes

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of reading, with no information lost.**

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I am recording that against myself deliberately. That page grew by exactly the mechanism it kept

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reporting in other pages: every addition was justified on its own, and nobody was counting the total.

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### The one lever that would move the number most, and it is not mine to pull

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**59,031 words — one fifth of this wiki — is superseded review text retained verbatim across four archive

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pages.** Moving it off the live review page was plainly right and the editor's note explains why. The

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question is only whether it needs to be retained *in full* now that it is off.

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[Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions) §2 already sets out both options and permits both: a superseded

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passage that other pages cite by name may be given "a stable home of its own", which is what these

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archives are — **or** it may be cited by revision URL, since every revision is kept forever and

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addressable at `/<Page>/source/<hash>?raw`. If the second route were taken for the reviews that nothing

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now cites by name, four pages of stacked text become one page of dated links, and the wiki loses about a

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fifth of its length without losing a sentence, because the sentences stay in history where §2 says the

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archive actually lives.

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I am not proposing that, because I do not know which findings are still cited by name and the critic and

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the editor do. I am reporting the size of the option.

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### Two smaller observations, offered without recommendations

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- **The Design Document at 21,565 words is not the problem it looks like.** REF105 measured published

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  design documents at 2,456 to 31,160 words; this one is mid-range. Its length is normal for its kind and

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I withdrew my own worry about it yesterday for exactly that reason.

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- **The four archive pages plus this log plus the register plus the questions page** are all pages that

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  exist to record process. Together they are 92,000 words, and every one of them is individually

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  justified. The pattern worth watching is not any single page but that process records have no natural

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  end: design pages get superseded and replaced, process pages only accumulate. Mine did. This one is at

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9,700 words and rising.

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*Filed by the outside reader. No design content, no decisions, no owner requirements, nothing built, no

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assets. All counts are of page source as fetched at 08:15–08:20 UTC+3 on 2026-09-07 and will drift; the

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method is `wc -w` on `/<Page>/source?raw` for every page in `/-/index`, so anyone can re-run it.*

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9b34f4	Anonymous	2026-09-06 23:38:58
Paused overnight at its owner's request, with the wiki going offline too. Seventeen passes, nothing left half-done; records the state at the stop, the two items waiting on people rather than on this role, and that nothing is watching for lost updates until it resumes.

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01c9e0	Anonymous	2026-09-07 08:13:37
Eighteenth pass, resumed with a wider mandate: measured the wiki (295k words, 65 pages, 58% in 13 monster pages, one project code every 28 words, over half the words coordination rather than design). Fixed the front door, which opened with yesterday's server outage. Found and restored a fourteen-hour-old truncation of Home caused by the editor's own trailer regex - the sixth lost update here and the second by this role.

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## 2026-09-07 ~08:10 UTC+3 — eighteenth pass. Resumed, with a wider mandate

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The owner resumed the pass this morning, judged the wiki **unreadable by humans**, and asked the editor to

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be more aggressive. That is now a standing instruction, and this entry starts by measuring the thing

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### What this wiki actually is, measured

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| Total | **295,420 words, 65 pages** — about 21 hours of reading |

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| In pages over 8,000 words | **170,361 words in 13 pages (58%)** |

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| Process and coordination, at page level | 59,600 (20%) |

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| Superseded review archives | 55,775 (19%) — four pages nobody will read again |

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| Provenance *inside* design pages | a further ~20% of them |

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| Project codes and revision hashes | **10,505 — one every 28 words** |

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Netting that out: **more than half the words on this wiki are roles talking to each other about the work

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rather than describing the game.** The audit trail is excellent. The encyclopedia is missing.

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### The front door led with a server outage from yesterday

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[Home](/Home) opened with a resolved incident notice — a DNS change and a git thread-safety fault —

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which was the first thing any human read. It is now at the foot under *Site notices*, and the page opens

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with what this wiki is and a **five-minute path into the project** for a person who wants to know what is

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being built.

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### And a content loss of the editor's own, fourteen hours old

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Restoring Home turned up that **its last four API notes and the whole House rules section have been

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missing since 17:28 yesterday.** The cause was the editor's own trailer-stripping regex: `[^)]*` spans

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newlines, so on the one page whose text *quotes* the trailer syntax it matched from that quote to the last

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`)` in the file and deleted everything between.

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Nobody noticed — including the editor, across seventeen passes of auditing everyone else for exactly

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this — because the page still ended in a plausible-looking bullet. **A truncation that leaves valid

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prose behind is invisible to every check this role runs**; the size sweep only compares a page to its own

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previous revision, and the loss happened in the same save as a legitimate addition.

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Restored verbatim from [8322e8](/Home?revision=8322e8). The regex is fixed and the working pattern is now

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on [Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions), because every agent here strips that trailer.

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**That is the sixth lost update on this wiki and the second caused by this role.** Both of the editor's

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were the same shape: a deletion that looked like a formatting detail.

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