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== Changelog ==

=== 16 September 2026 ===

* '''1st MRBC Unit History roster''' — New [[1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company]] page with the printed ''Unit History'' cover and Consolidated Roster (PDF + linked transcription); featured on [[Training materials]] and linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].

* '''MISLS WAC yearbook photos''' — Fold3 yearbook pages and crops (Capt. Marian E. Nestor; grads leaving for Camp Ritchie; first MISLS WACs) added to [[Nisei and Pacific]] and [[Ritchie WACs]]; yearbook confirms '''21''' November 1945 WAC graduates transferred to Camp Ritchie.

* '''Settle Early G-2 account''' — Uploaded Lt. Col. Henry C. Settle’s 27 October 1944 ETOUSA G-2 organization interview (Fold3) to [[Training materials]]; Camp Ritchie graduate / European MITU / 29th Infantry Division staffing notes added to [[The Stories/Camp Ritchie Background|Camp Ritchie Background]].

* '''Nisei WAC translators''' — Enriched [[Hurt, Haruko (WAC)|Haruko Hurt]] (née Sugi; merged maiden-name duplicate) and [[Kato, Sue (WAC)|Sue Suzuko Kato]] from Wikipedia / Discover Nikkei; noted MISLS→PACMIRS “top twenty-one” assignment on [[Nisei and Pacific]] and [[Camp Ritchie]].

* '''MITU / Nisei redeployment training''' — [[Nisei and Pacific]] now summarizes July 1945 G-2 / Camp Ritchie records on Mobile Intelligence Training Units (demonstration teams, 442nd veterans, WRA concerns), with NARA PDFs from a JAVA packet; linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].

* '''EEIS monograph''' — Added the Signal Section history ''A Typical Enemy Equipment Intelligence Service'' (Detachment No. 9) as a PDF on [[Training materials]] (Camp Ritchie training + Ninth Army field work; Fold3 source).

* '''Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)''' — New [[The Stories/Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)|Stories]] page with Fold3 / JWB–USO documents for the first-night Seder (telegram, reports, program card).

* '''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.

* '''Film synopsis link''' — [[Documentaries/Movies]] links the Bauer film site’s [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/story.html official synopsis] (© TANGRAM 2004).

* '''FOCUS press report''' — [[Documentaries/Movies]] links Christian Bauer’s May 2004 ''FOCUS'' English report ([https://ritchieboys.com/DL/focus-en.pdf At War Against Their Home Country]) and the film-site press reviews page.

* '''Main Page disclaimer''' — Replaced the long Classes 1–31 roster block on the homepage with a short pointer to [[About the data]] (class-roster attribution stays on that page, Contents, and class pages).

* '''Documentary press photos''' — High-resolution portraits and stills from [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html the Bauer film press page] (© TANGRAM) uploaded with source credits; set on documentary soldiers’ profiles/galleries and a gallery on [[Documentaries/Movies]].

* '''Life in Camp Ritchie''' — [[The Stories/Life in Camp Ritchie]] gathers short attributed quotes from Bauer’s film (enemy-alien arrivals, the MITC “Total Confusion” joke, classroom and practice) linked from [[Camp Ritchie]] and [[Documentaries/Movies]].

* '''My Life as a Fish''' — [[The Stories/My Life as a Fish]] posts Camp Ritchie–related excerpts from Alfred G. Meyer’s autobiography (© 2000; shared by Vera Meyer via the Bauer film site), with a Full-story cue on his soldier page and a related link under [[Documentaries/Movies]].

* '''Documentaries related reading''' — [[Documentaries/Movies]] links Henry Schwab’s 2005 ''Israel Philatelist'' Camp Ritchie mail article (PDF on the Bauer film site) under ''The Ritchie Boys''.

=== 15 September 2026 ===

* '''Place format standard''' — Soldier infobox birth/death places use `City, Country` abroad (e.g. Berlin, Germany) and `City, State` in the U.S. with no `US`/`USA`/`U.S.` suffix (e.g. Detroit, Michigan). Sitewide normalize pass applied for known cities, state abbreviations, and country-suffix cleanup.

* '''Documentary boys bios''' — Profiles for the ten soldiers featured on [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/boys.html The Ritchie Boys film site] were enriched from those biographies (vitals, wartime narrative, Sources cites).

=== 14 September 2026 ===

* '''No more “Related media” above the lead''' — Story and interview cues on soldier pages (“Full story”, etc.) no longer get wrapped in a “Related media” heading near the top of the article. Those cues keep their own labels under the lead.

* '''Training materials library''' — New [[Training materials]] page for Camp Ritchie / MITC manuals and other camp-wide PDFs (not soldier OCR). Logged-in editors can upload from the page; files appear in the Library list. Linked from Media and [[Camp Ritchie]]. Upload limit raised to about 120 MB for large manuals. The Library list is stored on [[Training materials/Library]] so hub-page edits do not wipe uploads.

* '''Short URLs''' — Article links use `https://ritchieboys.org/wiki/Page_title` (Wikipedia-style) instead of long `index.php?title=` addresses. Old links still work.

* '''Quiet anti-vandalism (AbuseFilter)''' — Automatic blocks for emptying established articles, anonymous multi-link spam dumps, and tiny new spam pages. Normal logged-in editing and Sources cites stay easy; no email-confirm gate.

* '''Mobile polish''' — Soldier pages show compact Edit / Draft buttons on phones (less help text above the bio). Wide tables scroll sideways; Drive and Contact embeds are shorter; the Main Page find box no longer flashes the “Open search” fallback when JavaScript is available.

* '''Mobile find box + hamburger''' — Main Page “Find a soldier” is a normal-height field on phones (no more tall square input). The Minerva hamburger adds Contents, Start here, Stories, Classes, and other site hubs alongside Home / Recent changes.

* '''Mobile site (Wikipedia-style)''' — Phones automatically get the Minerva mobile skin via MobileFrontend (same approach as Wikipedia). Desktop stays the classic Vector layout.

=== 13 September 2026 ===

* '''OCR handwriting cost guard''' — Checking '''Handwriting / hard scan''' still runs free RapidOCR first; paid LLM vision is used only when that preliminary quality score is weak. Clear print that was checked by mistake no longer bills a vision call.

* '''Site-wide OCR enrichment''' — Document OCR proposes infobox facts and a short woven biography draft (not raw OCR lines), with Sources on Apply. Printed pages stay on RapidOCR; '''Handwriting / hard scan''' uses the site LLM vision model when `RITCHIE_LLM_API_KEY` is set. [[Contribute documents]] and Gallery OCR are framed as profile enrichers; multi-person team rosters remain a preset.

* '''Pre-launch family UX''' — [[Contribute]] leads with a five-step photo path and uses '''Biography''' (not Life); Participate sidebar adds [[Contact Us]] and drops Random page; empty search / Main Page find point to “name not found” help; [[About]] and [[Patrol]] add corrections/privacy guidance; [[Photos]] and [[Contact Us]] lead with open-in-new-window links when embeds fail; mobile CSS for find box and embeds.

* '''Live Teammates lists''' — The Teammates box on soldier pages now loads other members live from each `Category:Team …` (same source as the team page roster). Adding `|ipw_ge=` / team fields on one profile updates that soldier’s box immediately and shows them on teammates’ pages on the next view—no roster-module rebuild.

* '''One Start here hub''' — [[Start here]] now covers both first-time visitors (story path) and families (find name → roster fields → photo/obituary). The short-lived [[For families]] page was removed (not kept as a redirect). Main Page uses a single “Start here” strip; Participate sidebar drops the duplicate family entry. Unused [[Directory]] alias redirect to Contents was deleted too.

* '''Class pages merged into categories''' — Dates, graduation counts, and specialties now sit on [[:Category:Class 1]]–[[:Category:Class 31]] above the roster list. Short [[Class 1]]-style stubs redirect there; soldier infobox class links go straight to the category.

* '''Still needed checklist removed''' — The automatic thin-profile “Still needed” box on soldier pages is gone~~. Related-media grouping for story/interview cues remains~~.

* '''Still needed checklist removed''' — The automatic thin-profile “Still needed” box on soldier pages is gone.

* '''Discovery & theme hubs''' — [[Start here]] path for new readers; Main Page premise strip (later merged into Start here); new Themes galleries ([[Nisei and Pacific]], [[Nuremberg and postwar justice]], [[Military governors]], [[Iwo Jima Marines]]); [[Awards faces]]; [[By specialty]]; Books memoir/history/novel filters; Photos identify workflow; Class 1/10 story blurb on class pages.

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 == Changelog ==
+=== 16 September 2026 ===
+* '''1st MRBC Unit History roster''' — New [[1st Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company]] page with the printed ''Unit History'' cover and Consolidated Roster (PDF + linked transcription); featured on [[Training materials]] and linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].
+* '''MISLS WAC yearbook photos''' — Fold3 yearbook pages and crops (Capt. Marian E. Nestor; grads leaving for Camp Ritchie; first MISLS WACs) added to [[Nisei and Pacific]] and [[Ritchie WACs]]; yearbook confirms '''21''' November 1945 WAC graduates transferred to Camp Ritchie.
+* '''Settle Early G-2 account''' — Uploaded Lt. Col. Henry C. Settle’s 27 October 1944 ETOUSA G-2 organization interview (Fold3) to [[Training materials]]; Camp Ritchie graduate / European MITU / 29th Infantry Division staffing notes added to [[The Stories/Camp Ritchie Background|Camp Ritchie Background]].
+* '''Nisei WAC translators''' — Enriched [[Hurt, Haruko (WAC)|Haruko Hurt]] (née Sugi; merged maiden-name duplicate) and [[Kato, Sue (WAC)|Sue Suzuko Kato]] from Wikipedia / Discover Nikkei; noted MISLS→PACMIRS “top twenty-one” assignment on [[Nisei and Pacific]] and [[Camp Ritchie]].
+* '''MITU / Nisei redeployment training''' — [[Nisei and Pacific]] now summarizes July 1945 G-2 / Camp Ritchie records on Mobile Intelligence Training Units (demonstration teams, 442nd veterans, WRA concerns), with NARA PDFs from a JAVA packet; linked from [[Camp Ritchie]].
+* '''EEIS monograph''' — Added the Signal Section history ''A Typical Enemy Equipment Intelligence Service'' (Detachment No. 9) as a PDF on [[Training materials]] (Camp Ritchie training + Ninth Army field work; Fold3 source).
+* '''Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)''' — New [[The Stories/Passover at Camp Ritchie (1945)|Stories]] page with Fold3 / JWB–USO documents for the first-night Seder (telegram, reports, program card).
+* '''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.
+* '''Film synopsis link''' — [[Documentaries/Movies]] links the Bauer film site’s [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/story.html official synopsis] (© TANGRAM 2004).
+* '''FOCUS press report''' — [[Documentaries/Movies]] links Christian Bauer’s May 2004 ''FOCUS'' English report ([https://ritchieboys.com/DL/focus-en.pdf At War Against Their Home Country]) and the film-site press reviews page.
+* '''Main Page disclaimer''' — Replaced the long Classes 1–31 roster block on the homepage with a short pointer to [[About the data]] (class-roster attribution stays on that page, Contents, and class pages).
+* '''Documentary press photos''' — High-resolution portraits and stills from [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/press_photos.html the Bauer film press page] (© TANGRAM) uploaded with source credits; set on documentary soldiers’ profiles/galleries and a gallery on [[Documentaries/Movies]].
+* '''Life in Camp Ritchie''' — [[The Stories/Life in Camp Ritchie]] gathers short attributed quotes from Bauer’s film (enemy-alien arrivals, the MITC “Total Confusion” joke, classroom and practice) linked from [[Camp Ritchie]] and [[Documentaries/Movies]].
+* '''My Life as a Fish''' — [[The Stories/My Life as a Fish]] posts Camp Ritchie–related excerpts from Alfred G. Meyer’s autobiography (© 2000; shared by Vera Meyer via the Bauer film site), with a Full-story cue on his soldier page and a related link under [[Documentaries/Movies]].
+* '''Documentaries related reading''' — [[Documentaries/Movies]] links Henry Schwab’s 2005 ''Israel Philatelist'' Camp Ritchie mail article (PDF on the Bauer film site) under ''The Ritchie Boys''.
+=== 15 September 2026 ===
+* '''Place format standard''' — Soldier infobox birth/death places use `City, Country` abroad (e.g. Berlin, Germany) and `City, State` in the U.S. with no `US`/`USA`/`U.S.` suffix (e.g. Detroit, Michigan). Sitewide normalize pass applied for known cities, state abbreviations, and country-suffix cleanup.
+* '''Documentary boys bios''' — Profiles for the ten soldiers featured on [https://ritchieboys.com/EN/boys.html The Ritchie Boys film site] were enriched from those biographies (vitals, wartime narrative, Sources cites).
+=== 14 September 2026 ===
+* '''No more “Related media” above the lead''' — Story and interview cues on soldier pages (“Full story”, etc.) no longer get wrapped in a “Related media” heading near the top of the article. Those cues keep their own labels under the lead.
+* '''Training materials library''' — New [[Training materials]] page for Camp Ritchie / MITC manuals and other camp-wide PDFs (not soldier OCR). Logged-in editors can upload from the page; files appear in the Library list. Linked from Media and [[Camp Ritchie]]. Upload limit raised to about 120&nbsp;MB for large manuals. The Library list is stored on [[Training materials/Library]] so hub-page edits do not wipe uploads.
+* '''Short URLs''' — Article links use `https://ritchieboys.org/wiki/Page_title` (Wikipedia-style) instead of long `index.php?title=` addresses. Old links still work.
+* '''Quiet anti-vandalism (AbuseFilter)''' — Automatic blocks for emptying established articles, anonymous multi-link spam dumps, and tiny new spam pages. Normal logged-in editing and Sources cites stay easy; no email-confirm gate.
+* '''Mobile polish''' — Soldier pages show compact Edit / Draft buttons on phones (less help text above the bio). Wide tables scroll sideways; Drive and Contact embeds are shorter; the Main Page find box no longer flashes the “Open search” fallback when JavaScript is available.
+* '''Mobile find box + hamburger''' — Main Page “Find a soldier” is a normal-height field on phones (no more tall square input). The Minerva hamburger adds Contents, Start here, Stories, Classes, and other site hubs alongside Home / Recent changes.
+* '''Mobile site (Wikipedia-style)''' — Phones automatically get the Minerva mobile skin via MobileFrontend (same approach as Wikipedia). Desktop stays the classic Vector layout.
 === 13 September 2026 ===
+* '''OCR handwriting cost guard''' — Checking '''Handwriting / hard scan''' still runs free RapidOCR first; paid LLM vision is used only when that preliminary quality score is weak. Clear print that was checked by mistake no longer bills a vision call.
+* '''Site-wide OCR enrichment''' — Document OCR proposes infobox facts and a short woven biography draft (not raw OCR lines), with Sources on Apply. Printed pages stay on RapidOCR; '''Handwriting / hard scan''' uses the site LLM vision model when `RITCHIE_LLM_API_KEY` is set. [[Contribute documents]] and Gallery OCR are framed as profile enrichers; multi-person team rosters remain a preset.
 * '''Pre-launch family UX''' — [[Contribute]] leads with a five-step photo path and uses '''Biography''' (not Life); Participate sidebar adds [[Contact Us]] and drops Random page; empty search / Main Page find point to “name not found” help; [[About]] and [[Patrol]] add corrections/privacy guidance; [[Photos]] and [[Contact Us]] lead with open-in-new-window links when embeds fail; mobile CSS for find box and embeds.
 * '''Live Teammates lists''' — The Teammates box on soldier pages now loads other members live from each `Category:Team …` (same source as the team page roster). Adding `|ipw_ge=` / team fields on one profile updates that soldier’s box immediately and shows them on teammates’ pages on the next view—no roster-module rebuild.
 * '''One Start here hub''' — [[Start here]] now covers both first-time visitors (story path) and families (find name → roster fields → photo/obituary). The short-lived [[For families]] page was removed (not kept as a redirect). Main Page uses a single “Start here” strip; Participate sidebar drops the duplicate family entry. Unused [[Directory]] alias redirect to Contents was deleted too.
 * '''Class pages merged into categories''' — Dates, graduation counts, and specialties now sit on [[:Category:Class 1]]–[[:Category:Class 31]] above the roster list. Short [[Class 1]]-style stubs redirect there; soldier infobox class links go straight to the category.
-* '''Still needed checklist removed''' — The automatic thin-profile “Still needed” box on soldier pages is gone. Related-media grouping for story/interview cues remains.
+* '''Still needed checklist removed''' — The automatic thin-profile “Still needed” box on soldier pages is gone.
 * '''Discovery & theme hubs''' — [[Start here]] path for new readers; Main Page premise strip (later merged into Start here); new Themes galleries ([[Nisei and Pacific]], [[Nuremberg and postwar justice]], [[Military governors]], [[Iwo Jima Marines]]); [[Awards faces]]; [[By specialty]]; Books memoir/history/novel filters; Photos identify workflow; Class 1/10 story blurb on class pages.