Changelog

This is a summary that leaves out many copyedits and link updates; it's mainly just for people who might wonder if they've missed any content since last time. For a full list of every edit that was made in the last 90 days, you can view the recent changes report.

Feb. 2026: Updated contributors to reflect the passing of SLK among other things; note on ☰ trigram from GW in 43:3; GW's book in bibliography (and reorganized list of books); AE blog post in links; general fixing of stale links

Sept. 2025: Erlkönig note by ZG in 4:18; updated Harts Ease with better explanation of the Beowulf theory and a link to an argument against it

Apr. 2024: R.D. Mullen essay in links

July 2022: More about red thread in 67:31

Dec. 2021: Updated links to reflect the passing of Alida Allison

Nov. 2021: More editions and translations in editions; Jess Zimmerman note/link in Widders Bel

Aug. 2017: Fidget Wonkham-Strong in 47:13

July 2014: What Does It Do and How Does It Work? in 8:19

Nov. 2013: Penguin 2010 edition, audiobook, e-book, stage adptations, and Enig Marcheur in editions; Cloud Atlas in bibliography

2013: Reimplemented the site using MediaWiki; edit history is harder to follow before this

Dec. 2011: Updated home page to reflect the passing of Russell Hoban

2010: Moved the whole thing into errorbar.net from my old website "Graphesthesia"

2005-2007: About half a dozen updates per year, but slowing down

2004: Many new notes by contributors from the Kraken mailing list, especially BJB who provided all the map images and other material from her curriculum

2002: Added chapter annotations and index; got some feedback from RH

Dec. 2001: First draft of the site, with semi-random glossary and subject entries; there's a brief explanation of how it came about in this 2025 panel discussion