A Quiet Week, and That Is Fine

25. October 2026 by Adam Hepner

This was a quiet week on the glossary. No new features, no launches — just the site sitting still and doing what it was built to do.

Not every week needs a headline. The previous two weeks brought the training directory, the About and Editing Methodology pages, the one-click citation box, and richer previews in search results. Those are genuinely useful additions, and they benefit from a settling-in period more than from another round of changes. A training catalogue gets tested by being used: someone looks for a course in their region, finds one, and discovers whether the listing was accurate. A citation format gets tested the moment it lands in a real bibliography. Neither of those things can be checked from my side of the screen.

A reference needs to hold still. A glossary that is constantly in motion is not much use as a reference. If the wording under a definition changes every week, you cannot cite it with confidence, and a citation you cannot trust is worse than no citation at all. Quiet weeks are how the site earns the stability the busy weeks promise. The definitions are unchanged, the sources are the same, and the pages you bookmarked last month still say what they said.

So: nothing to announce, and that is the announcement. If you have been using the new additions and something does not work the way you expected, now is a good moment to mention it. Otherwise the glossary is here, the terms are current, and there will be more to report next week.