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Here you'll find blog entries describing recent changes to the Wiki. This will serve to inform you of major changes, while minor changes will likely go without comment.
This is the place where I will comment on major design choices in building and rebuilding the wiki, as well as any major changes in game mechanics. I will also try to comment on any and all updates to GCS files.
Namespace and Blog RSS Feeds
Each namespace (the combination of pages and media files sharing a path) in this wiki now has an RSS feed.
In addition, the three blogs have feeds, as well.
I hope you find this helpful.
Tweaked Tools Page
I just stumbled on an odd error in the Tools page. When I clicked on the links for the SVG files, it took me to the detail pages for those files, instead of downloading them.
This is now fixed.
Google Custom Search
I've made a few changes to the footer at the bottom of each page.
The biggest change is that the footer now includes a custom Google search box for searching the Islands of War website. This is just above the Disqus comment widget.
I also managed to get the footer wrapped in a box that makes the widgets within fit in with the rest of the page.
Each widget has a header to keep it separate, too.
Last of all, I recently embedded an invisible widget on every page that collects visitor statistics for me (Piwik is very cool and very useful), so I've finally got the ability to see how many visitors are coming to the site, like I did on the old one.
These changes have finally given the website just about every feature I've been missing since I gave up on making the old Wikispaces version work. In some cases, the new version is quite a bit better.
RSS Feed and Changelog
I've made a few final tweaks to the RSS feed and Changelog.
The RSS feed is retaining entries for two weeks, because I decided it's file size was a bit excessive.
The Changelog is now split into multiple pages, to make it more manageable and reduce individual file size.
I consider them both ready for general use.
I also took the time to carefully prune a few completely unnecessary files from the website.
Overall, I think the website it ready.
Changes from here on out should be back to normal, with only occasional tweaks to the scripts that build the website to add new capabilities. The Changelog will also begin tracking all changes, instead of just marking everything as created pages and uploaded file.
Eventually, I'm planning to add a few extra RSS feeds for the blogs that will include descriptions, but this will be a big project in and of itself.
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Disqus Comments
I'm very pleased to announce that at the bottom of every page you'll now find a widget for comments.
Each page has it's own comments and a unique identifier, such that http://islandsofwar.simulatoralive.net and http://islandsofwar.simulatoralive.net/home.html display the same comments, despite the fact that they have different URLs. Even my test site's pages (where I fiddle with experimental variations of the website) share the same comments per page.
I even find that the comment widget looks like it belongs on the page.
The comment widget is provided by Disqus.com. I was looking for a platform-neutral way of collecting comments and Disqus.com supports quite a number of social networks.
I hope you find this new feature useful and/or helpful. I hope to hear from some of you soon.