Ritchie Boys Wiki

Site changelog

Revision as of 04:09, 25 August 2026 by Admin (talk | contribs) (Split earlier summary into dated days from wiki revision history)

This page records site-level changes: new features, layout and tooling, directory structure, and major content systems. It is not a log of edits to individual soldier biographies (use Special:RecentChanges for those).

Newest entries first. When we change how the wiki works, add a dated bullet here.

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Changelog

25 August 2026

  • Ritchie Boy Programs — Added Ritchie Boy Programs (talks and museum programs from theritchieboys.com, with soldier links where matched).
  • Ritchie Boy Interviews/Testimonies — Added Ritchie Boy Interviews (video interview list from theritchieboys.com, with soldier links where matched).
  • Symposium Presentation — Added Symposium Presentation from Dan Gross’s 2012 Camp Ritchie Symposium deck (documentary stars, select notables, WAC note, closing slides; 2012 class-count slide kept as historical presentation figures only).
  • Reading order — Main Page Reading list and sidebar Reading links follow theritchieboys.com order (existing wiki pages plus coming-soon / source-site links for pages not imported yet). Notable Ritchie Boys sits under Directory with the roster.
  • By The Numbers — Hub (By The Numbers) with By The Numbers/Student Numbers - All Classes, By The Numbers/Eight Week Classes - Dates & Graduation Numbers, By The Numbers/Eight Week Class Content, By The Numbers/Eight Week Courses by Specialties, and By The Numbers/Awards (Eddy tables/notes with copyright notices). Class 1–31 pages and soldier Camp Ritchie rows show eight-week class date ranges; matched award recipients get ribbon + awards-grid sections.
  • Sidebar sections — Split the left nav into Navigation, Reading, Directory, and Participate portals (was one long list). Sidebar slightly widened so Congressional Gold Medal shows its full title.
  • Notable Ritchie Boys gallery — Added Notable Ritchie Boys, a single page of portrait+blurb cards from both Notable Ritchie Boys Google Slides decks (linked to soldier pages when matched).
  • Site changelog — Added this page so feature work on the wiki has a chronological home (Site changelog); linked from the sidebar and related help pages.
  • Awards and honors (Wikipedia-style) — Soldier pages can show a ribbon rack plus a labeled awards grid (multi-line cells, content-sized columns, short rows spanning full width, tiny gaps between ribbons), with extra award notes as bullets.
  • Wikipedia notables import — Pipeline to enrich existing soldier profiles from English Wikipedia (infobox fields, biography sections, Commons portraits, ribbon uploads) without inventing new soldier pages.
  • Contents directory layout — Classes, Teams, and Site pages lists on Contents use a compact three-column layout (same idea as category pages). Any page that embeds a category tree gets that layout from site CSS.
  • Soldier page chrome — Awards block sits in the main column after Biography (not crushed in the infobox); table of contents stays near the top after the lead.

22 August 2026

  • The Stories — Hub and essay pages for Camp Ritchie narratives and individual biographies imported from theritchieboys.com.
  • Congressional Gold Medal — Congressional Gold Medal page for the Ritchie Boys Gold Medal Act.
  • Secret Heroes / Battle of the Bulge — Secret Heroes/Battle of the Bulge essay and navigation.

21 August 2026

  • Introduction — Introduction imported from theritchieboys.com (Dan Gross).
  • Secret Heroes / First Class — Secret Heroes/First Class page with photo and roster links.
  • Find a soldier — Main Page search by name or ASN.
  • Edit soldier facts — Form on soldier pages to edit structured infobox fields (including specialty) without raw wikitext.
  • Patrol — Patrol guide for watching Special:RecentChanges.
  • Contribute / Patrol links — Sidebar links for editors.

20 August 2026

  • Draft opening summary — Optional tool to draft a short lead from personal details and the Life biography for review before saving.

18 August 2026

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