D minus five days and counting...

Well, heck. I said I didn't get much done yesterday on the Wongery because of Christmas, but I got even less done today. Also because of Christmas; I went yesterday to visit family for the holiday, but didn't get back until late today. This made it difficult to get anything done on the Wongery for reasons that should be apparent but that I'm going to explain anyway. First, of course, there's just the distraction of the surroundings, and the fact that, well, I'm supposed to be there to visit family, not to sequester myself with a laptop and ignore them, which would defeat the purpose of my being there in the first place. And of course there's the fact that I'm away from my computer; I can bring laptops with me, but among other issues I don't have Wampserver installed on any of my laptops so I can't really test the site code when I'm away from home. (I did try installing Wampserver on one laptop—not either of the laptops I bring to work, but a third laptop I rarely use because I don't want to lug it to work and risk it getting broken but I don't have occasion to use it at home because, well, I have my desktop there. But for various reasons it took a long time to get it installed, and while I finally did, it was too late to get much done with it.)

I wouldn't bemoan one or two days of negligible progress on the site, but with the hard launch is imminent every day counts.

But anyway, while like yesterday I didn't get much done on the Wongery, also like yesterday I did get a little done. One thing that I don't need Wampserver to do, or any special software beyond a text editor and a web browser, is to write articles. I haven't written any new articles for the Central Wongery lately (I do have a number of such articles partly written, but I have so much else to get ready that I'm not likely to finish them till after the hard launch), but I figured there were some articles I ought to write for the newly created Metawongery.

Just as for the site to be more usable and comprehensible, it makes senes to have articles at least for the less immediately obvious of my neologisms, even if they're only stubs, to help people understand the workings of the Wongery, it would help to have some articles about... well, that. I have written some such articles, and have others partly written but unfinished, but till recently I've been putting them in the projectspace of the Central Wongery. But the Metawongery is a better place for them, and that's where they'll go in the future.

In fact, I have been linking to such articles all along, even if they didn't exist, and... it's about time they existed. So that's the main thing I did on the Wongery today, writing articles on the Metawongery about the Central Wongery, the Public Wongery, the Master Wongeries, the blog, the forum, the mainspace, the namespace, the talkspace, and the Wongery as a whole. Again, I've actually linked to those nonexistent articles in the past, but now the articles finally exist. of course, those links in the older article go to the Central Wongery projectspace instead of the Metawongery, but I'll fix that when I go through and edit all those old blog posts and articles—yet another thing I hope to get done before the hard launch. We'll see if that happens. Anyway, there are a lot more articles I want to write on the Metawongery (and of course on the Central Wongery), but... at least it's a start.

Not only are there only a few articles so far on the Metawongery, but those that are there are currently very short. I haven't felt it necessary to put the Stub template on them like for the stub article in the Central Wongery, since the Metawongery serves a different purpose and having such short and superficial articles there doesn't present the same issues. Still, like the stub articles in the Central Wongery, I do intend to expand them later.

At some point I also intend to move the few similar articles I've written in the Central Wongery projectspace to the Metawongery—that would be, let's see, probably Copyrights, Grandmaster Wonger, Licensing, Pronunciation, and What to do with the Wongery. But I'm not sure if there's a simple way to do that that preserves the page history. I could write a script to do so, but I'm not certain that's worth the trouble; after all, I wrote all the articles in question, so losing the page history would only mean losing the date the page was first created (and edited, though I'm not sure I've really edited any of those pages much since their creation); there wouldn't be any loss of authorship information. So I guess I'll probably end up just going ahead and... copying and pasting them over and deleting the origins. But I haven't done that yet. It's yet another thing I'll try to do before the hard launch.

Anyway. Tonight I'm back home, and hopefully the remaining few days before the hard launch will be more productive. At this point it's going to be very difficult to get those custom namespaces fully implemented before the hard launch, but I'm still dang well going to try.

D minus five days and counting...