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Saintapedia Blog is where we publish longer updates about the project: new features (especially place-based tools like Footprints), content milestones, how to use the wiki, and technical notes when they help readers or editors.
What you will find here
- Product & places — pilgrimage trails, maps, Nearby, and related tools
- Content — saints, parishes, media, and geography worth a short write-up
- How-to — practical guides for exploring structured data on the wiki
- Technical notes — Cargo, forms, templates, and behind-the-scenes improvements
- Announcements — policies and project news
Short feast-day highlights live on the homepage (and on our social channels). This blog is for posts that should stay complete and easy to find later.
Recent blog posts
- How to explore Saintapedia (2026-08-02) - A short guide for new readers: saints of the day, biographies and maps, parishes and geography, Footprints tours, Nearby on mobile, and drilldown search.
- Looking back: January–August 2026 (index) (2026-08-02) - Short index of the January–August 2026 catch-up posts—parish geography, saints identity work, Nearby, Footprints, and how to explore the wiki.
- Introducing Footprints: walk the lives of the saints (2026-08-02) - Footprints are tour-depth life places of saints and blesseds—walkable stops with honest visit access, maps, and mobile Nearby. Start at the Footprints hub.
- Nearby: parishes, Footprints, and shrines around you (2026-08-01) - Special:Nearby can surface Parishes, Footprints life-stops, and Shrines—so a phone (or laptop with location) becomes a quick map into Saintapedia’s geography.
- One person, many names: keeping saints identity clean (2026-07-22) - Behind the articles, we maintain a master identity list—one person, one id, redirects for variants, and careful disambiguation—so the wiki grows without duplicate holy people.
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Saintapedia blog
| Title | Posted | Author | Tags | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Title | Posted | Author | Tags | Summary |
| New YouTube Channels Added to Catholic Media Resources | 2026-01-03 | Tom | Portal:Media • YouTube channels • Catholic media • wiki improvement • contributor resources | We've added several excellent Catholic YouTube channels to our recommended media resources in Portal:Media |
| New Blog System Launched on Saintapedia | 2025-12-29 | Tom | blog • technical • Cargo • Page Forms • wiki improvement • structured data | A fully consistent and user-friendly blog system is now live, powered by Cargo and Page Forms for easy posting and clean listings. |
| Added default file name for galleries | 2025-12-28 | Tom | Gallery form • image uploads • file naming • Page Forms • wiki improvement • contributor tips | We've improved the Gallery form so that when uploading images, the file name is automatically suggested based on the gallery page title |
| Welcome to the Saintapedia blog | 2025-12-18 | Tom | technical • blog • Cargo | A new blog system is now live on Saintapedia, making it easy to share wiki updates, announcements, and reflections. |
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