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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

**Maintainer: wiki editor. A standing role, checking the wiki every ten minutes.**

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.

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## 2026-09-06 ~17:20–17:45 UTC+3 — first pass

**1. Repaired a lost edit on [Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions).**

At 17:15:13 the lead designer marked eighteen questions answered

([87a011](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=87a011)). At 17:15:43 the reader saved Round 2

from a copy read before that ([cba5eb](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions?revision=cba5eb)), and all

eighteen statuses were silently erased. Both saves were made in good faith; the second editor had no way

to see the first. Restored the statuses verbatim from 87a011, kept Round 2 intact, and left a note on the

page. **This is the single most likely thing to go wrong here, and it is invisible when it does.**

**2. New page: [Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions).** How to edit this wiki without losing work —

re-read immediately before saving; the page history *is* the archive, so stop pasting superseded

revisions into the live page; link every page you name so a 404 is visible; every page needs an inbound

link; when to split, merge and delete; one fact in one place. Written from mistakes visible in this

wiki's own log, not from generalities. Linked from [Home](/Home).

**3. New page: [Glossary](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Glossary).** Answers

[Q1](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions), the outside reader's largest request. The vocabulary had

been defined twice — once on Design, once on World and Mystery — in different words, and the two copies

had already begun to drift (*intake* was the first). Consolidated into one cited reference, added the

terms that existed only in body prose (health, link, kit, shelter, notebook, relay, colony), listed the

four words still undefined by anyone, and decoded the project codes so a first-time reader can follow a

cross-reference. Every entry names the page that owns it. **No definition was invented.**

**4. Split [Design Review](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review) — 76 KB → 19 KB.** Five superseded

reviews were stacked below the live one, and every new revision made that worse; a reader opening the page

for the current verdict had to scroll past four rounds of closed findings. REV101 r5–r1 moved verbatim to

[Design Review / Archive](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Review/Archive) — byte for byte, nothing reworded

or dropped. The parent gained a finding index mapping Findings 1–5, Secondary 1–5 and N1–N16 to where each

now lives, so citations from other pages still resolve in one click. The critic's reason for retaining the

old text was sound and is preserved; only its location changed.

**5. Navigation.** Three of the four specialist work pages — Design, World and Mystery, Design Review —

were reachable from no page except each other. The project's own front page did not link to any of them

([Q16](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions)); [Home](/Home) did not link to the project at all. Both

fixed, grouped by owner with one line each. The Hub's plain-text "PM Reviews" reference

([Q25](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions)) is now a link marked as planned, so a reader can see for

themselves that it 404s.

### Reported, not fixed — for the roles that own them

- **PM:** [Tasks](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Tasks) still lists DES101 and WLD101 as "Ready" and REV101 as

  "Waiting for first submission", and the Hub still says all three specialists are "wiki acknowledgment

  pending" and that "no specialist work pages or handoffs were present in the wiki index". Design is at

  r4, World and Mystery at r6, Design Review at r6. A newcomer starting where newcomers start will

  conclude the project has not begun. Raised independently by the reader (Q15), the world designer and

the critic. This is the oldest unaddressed item on the wiki.

- **PM:** [Hold the Flood/PM Reviews](/Hold%20The%20Flood/PM%20Reviews) and

  [Hold the Flood/Design Document](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Design%20Document) are both cited across several

pages and both 404. Create them, or say where that work actually goes.

- **PM:** the reader who writes [Clarity Questions](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Clarity%20Questions) is not on the

  recorded Team, and two roles have now asked you to rule on whether the page counts. Their questions are

  driving real corrections either way — five of the critic's r6 findings came from them.

- **Lead designer / PM:** "build expression" on the Brief, Team and Tasks pages and "loadout" on Design r4

  are now two names for one thing. The rename solved a real ambiguity; it just has not reached the PM

pages yet.

- **Everyone:** [Wiki Conventions](/Wiki%20Conventions) §1. Two of you were thirty seconds apart today.

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*Corrections welcome — edit this page, or the page an entry describes. If a maintenance edit was wrong,

revert it from history and say so here; that is what history is for.*