I will be giving more attention to older history than just current events, although this will also get attention.  There is still quite a bit of interconnection among historical periods to catch up with. For the analysis,  I expect to be able to catch up to events of last year, current events, and extend the analysis back a year or so.  I am also picking up my examination of the future agaiin.

It may be a while before I add new nations, since so many of those I alreay have need better development. I am currently working on connecting particular nations to various aspects of the social institutions, still in general terms, but Culture and anthropology will come next. I hope to get to the biographies. I am also adding new cities and distributing them among peoples and nations.

I will be working more intensively with the social institutions, including government, religion, economics, and education. These are still too vague and general, and I hope to get more specific. I will also be working with the areas of culture, and hope to get more specific with these, also.

In the area of anthropology. The analysis of last year's events should prompt the addition of more particular groups sometime during the year, and I am beginning more direct examination and interconnection of the specific areas.

I have also been indirectly doing a little work with biographies, as prompted by some periods of history, and I expect this to contine. The biography list is a few years out of date with current political figures, and has few other personalities of  note. The analysis of history and current events is approaching the point where I should be able to add more. 

The additions to science have mostly been indirect, but I expect to be able to pick up direct examination again sometime later this year.

Overall, I expect to reach a level of detail that will make this significantly more useful. For now, it's more of a question generating machine, but more on that later.

For some time, I have been working piecemeal, as one area or another seemed to need work, and I haven't been able to see a complete path from the top down to the little details.  But now enough of the connections are in place that I can say, it's working.

I have also resumed work in connecting periods of history, at a somewhat slower pace than what I was doing last June.  There is more to history than current events, so I am making room for prehistory, antiquity, and classical and medieval history to have reviews of how they have progressed.

I have finished the interconnection of pages of social structure and change and begun applying them to nations and peoples, and the main topic of Western Civilization is fully connected. More progress in this area will come as I fill out more content and gradually split off new topics based on the analysis of historical developments and examples of particular countries.

I have also begun more of the closer look into religion I have been wanting to do for quite some time. I have been aware for some time that there is a tradition that Christianity was introduced into India by St. Thomas: I was not aware there is as much historical support for the tradition. I also expected there to be some presence of Roman Catholicism in India and Indonesia; there is a bit more than I had expected. I expect more discoveries as I progress.

I have another round of structural improvements to do, more history and recent events, better interconnection of nations, more development of social structure and change, including application to more nations, and a little more religion.  I've noticed that I can and ought to fill out the text for a few rather spase entries connecting history, nations and peoples to social structure and change, so I will be giving some attention to that.

I've also finished a pass through recent events. I still need to do some anaysis for last September before I can being improving the summaries.  January 2011 has separation of events as far as Egypt, February 2011 as far as Indonesia, March 2011 has Northeast Europe, April has India, and May has Asiatic peoples. June through September is still being analyzed. I have events all the way to October 1, and everything in place to begin  the current quarter.

However, there are various projects that I'm working on, and it may be more interesting to report on those various projects. At the moment, there are four of these.

The first I might call structural improvements to the knowledge base. There are a number of pages that have grown enough to split off new subdivisions, and I have put off several of these. Also, the site map is badly out of date, up to a year in some sections, and I need to get it current. In the future, my regular procedure for creating most new pages will also include creating links to them in the site map.

The second is recent history and current events. I have been going through 2010 and 2011 with successive passes, each time through linking a week to another nation, separating out connected events from the great mass, adding or revising a bit of summary, each pass extending another week. I'm pleased with the results and I want to continue.

The third is examination of social structure and change, with the topics I mentioned in my last post.  All these pages are being interconnected, and connected to more detail in the institutions and culture section, so that I can begin applying them to particular nations and peoples.

A fourth current project is the development of religion. Although most reported events are political, there are less reported religion and and quasi-religious developments which often underlie these. I am giving the religious developments a greater emphasis, and will include more of the political developments later.

Although most of the events tracked by Wikipedia are included, I have been reorganizing them and separating them out by region and country. Most nations haven't yet been separated out from the mass of detail, but events of Western Civilization have been separated out through May, and a few of the largest nations (India, Pakistan, China, Indonesia) have had also had events separated through March or April, so that the history of the nation can be followed.  I will gradually be adding earlier and later events as well as more nations.

I've also been working on the sociological analysis, so that I can follow major social changes and movements, social change factors and processes, types of society, and elements of social structure. I should have more information about this, by my next post.