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=== 16 September 2026 ===

* '''Camp Ritchie List of Directives''' — Personnel Section sheet (Pers. Sec. 214) uploaded to [[Training materials]] with a full transcription; linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].

* '''Camp Ritchie photos''' — Added wartime German-village training and late-1944 panoramic views on [[Photos]] and [[Camp Ritchie]] (filename captions; archival source not yet confirmed).

* '''Zekelman Holocaust Center oral histories''' — Added embeddable Zekelman interviews on [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] for Fairbrook, Kosse, Lieberman, Michel, Norton, Schwarz, Stern (two parts), and Wachtel, with soldier-page cues and biography enrichments from the Center’s oral-history synopses.

* '''Internet Archive interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play Internet Archive oral histories with click-to-play embeds (first: Robert A. Potash / Yiddish Book Center).

* '''Books — Olderman memoir''' — [[Books]] now lists Murray Olderman's ''A Year Apart: Letters from War-Torn Europe''.

* '''Infobox fields trimmed + Other class expanded''' — Soldier infoboxes no longer show Education, Spouse/marital, Occupation, State, Certificate, Arrived/Departed, or Years of service (NARA/roster snapshots stay in the Technical record). Roster '''Other class''' codes expand to readable names (e.g. SC8 → Special Course 8, DC36 → Division Class 36, MITU4 → Mobile Intelligence Training Unit 4).

* '''Aviary interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play Milken Archive / Aviary oral histories with click-to-play embeds (first: Hugo D. Weisgall).

* '''Site link preview image''' — Homepage Open Graph / chat previews use the Ritchie Boys Wiki logo (same as the top-left site mark) instead of the MediaWiki “powered by” footer graphic.

* '''About the data — AI wording''' — Clarified that AI-assisted biographies are drafted from curated person-specific sources (profile text, newspapers, obituaries, family packets, research notes), not from open-web search, and still do not certify accuracy.

* '''Multi-person gallery photos''' — When a photo caption names two or more Ritchie Boys, the same file is added to each matched soldier’s Gallery with roster links in the caption (not only on the packet owner’s page).

* '''Ellen Kaufmann Boucher interview''' — Added her 1995 Canandaigua cable testimony to [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] with a biographical blurb and soldier-page cue.

* '''Interview watchlist bios''' — New or newly found video/audio testimonies go on [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] with a short biographical blurb before the player (not title-and-embed only).

* '''SoundCloud interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play SoundCloud audio (click-to-play) the same way as YouTube videos; first entry is Alfred Goodwin’s 1986 OJMCHE oral history.

* '''Class section casing''' — Soldier infobox section codes use uppercase letters (e.g. 4C, not 4c); existing lowercase values normalized sitewide.

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 === 16 September 2026 ===
+* '''Camp Ritchie List of Directives''' — Personnel Section sheet (Pers. Sec. 214) uploaded to [[Training materials]] with a full transcription; linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].
+* '''Camp Ritchie photos''' — Added wartime German-village training and late-1944 panoramic views on [[Photos]] and [[Camp Ritchie]] (filename captions; archival source not yet confirmed).
+* '''Zekelman Holocaust Center oral histories''' — Added embeddable Zekelman interviews on [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] for Fairbrook, Kosse, Lieberman, Michel, Norton, Schwarz, Stern (two parts), and Wachtel, with soldier-page cues and biography enrichments from the Center’s oral-history synopses.
+* '''Internet Archive interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play Internet Archive oral histories with click-to-play embeds (first: Robert A. Potash / Yiddish Book Center).
+* '''Books — Olderman memoir''' — [[Books]] now lists Murray Olderman's ''A Year Apart: Letters from War-Torn Europe''.
+* '''Infobox fields trimmed + Other class expanded''' — Soldier infoboxes no longer show Education, Spouse/marital, Occupation, State, Certificate, Arrived/Departed, or Years of service (NARA/roster snapshots stay in the Technical record). Roster '''Other class''' codes expand to readable names (e.g. SC8 → Special Course 8, DC36 → Division Class 36, MITU4 → Mobile Intelligence Training Unit 4).
+* '''Aviary interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play Milken Archive / Aviary oral histories with click-to-play embeds (first: Hugo D. Weisgall).
+* '''Site link preview image''' — Homepage Open Graph / chat previews use the Ritchie Boys Wiki logo (same as the top-left site mark) instead of the MediaWiki “powered by” footer graphic.
+* '''About the data — AI wording''' — Clarified that AI-assisted biographies are drafted from curated person-specific sources (profile text, newspapers, obituaries, family packets, research notes), not from open-web search, and still do not certify accuracy.
+* '''Multi-person gallery photos''' — When a photo caption names two or more Ritchie Boys, the same file is added to each matched soldier’s Gallery with roster links in the caption (not only on the packet owner’s page).
+* '''Ellen Kaufmann Boucher interview''' — Added her 1995 Canandaigua cable testimony to [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] with a biographical blurb and soldier-page cue.
+* '''Interview watchlist bios''' — New or newly found video/audio testimonies go on [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] with a short biographical blurb before the player (not title-and-embed only).
 * '''SoundCloud interview embeds''' — [[Ritchie Boy Interviews]] can play SoundCloud audio (click-to-play) the same way as YouTube videos; first entry is Alfred Goodwin’s 1986 OJMCHE oral history.
 * '''Class section casing''' — Soldier infobox section codes use uppercase letters (e.g. 4C, not 4c); existing lowercase values normalized sitewide.