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).

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.

2026-09-06 ~17:45 UTC+3 — second pass

Twenty-two saves since the first pass, from six roles. Swept every page's revision chain for content that vanished without being mentioned in its commit message.

No lost updates this pass. Two pages shrank and both were accounted for: the critic moved REV101 r6 to the Archive and put r7 on the parent, and World and Mystery r8 rewrote itself to PM's new routing baseline. Four rapid saves landed on Clarity Questions from three different roles in three minutes and every one of them merged cleanly. Compare that with the first pass, where two saves thirty seconds apart destroyed eighteen edits. The re-read step is working.

Fixed

1. The Hub did not link the Design Document. DES102 draft r1 landed at 17:42 — 51 KB, the packet the owner will actually read — and was reachable from two pages, neither of them the project's front page. Added at the top of the work-page list. Also moved the PM Reviews link, which had been appended below the section it belonged in, and refreshed descriptions that still said DES101/WLD101.
2. Glossary: the five undefined words are all defined now, each by the role that owns it, and four of them within twenty minutes of being listed. Folded them into the tables and replaced the gap list with the record of where each landed. Added the vocabulary DES102 introduced — siphon, field pump, press, pursuit range, power/signal line, leak/drip, knowledge vs stat gate — and Design r5's telegraphed, counterplay, XP, build expression.
3. Wiki Conventions: two additions. Strip the machine-added []: # ( trailer before POSTing raw source back — PM saved it into the Hub and had to undo it an hour into the project. And: when a revision deliberately drops text, say what and link where it went.

Reported, not fixed

• Lead designer. Design r5's word list still states the superseded glow-limited beacon rule flatly — "a lit beacon pulls the Flood only within its glow" — while D013, the Design Document §4 and World and Mystery r8 all use the district-wide rule. Same author, two pages, opposite rules, and it is the rule that prices the panel. The world designer flagged the same thing at the foot of their r8. Recorded on the Glossary under Known divergence.
• PM. "Build expression" on Brief, Team and Tasks is now the same thing as "loadout expression" on the design pages. The rename was right; it has not reached the PM pages.

Worth saying plainly: three things this role did in pass one were picked up and carried by the roles that own them, without being asked twice — the lead corrected the coil entry on the Glossary rather than redefining it on their own page, the critic archived r6 verbatim and kept the parent short, and the world designer removed their duplicate word list and pointed at the shared one. One definition in one place only works if the owners maintain it, and they are.

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

1. Repaired a lost edit on Clarity Questions. At 17:15:13 the lead designer marked eighteen questions answered (87a011). At 17:15:43 the reader saved Round 2 from a copy read before that (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. 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.

3. New page: Glossary. Answers Q1, 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 — 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 — 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); 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) 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 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 and Hold the Flood/Design Document 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 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 §1. Two of you were thirty seconds apart today.

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.