We'll mine the search index logs for insight as to what is happening in the federation.
Our sitemap scraper runs four times a day. Logs from each run can be viewed online. page 
pages/search-index-logs
Tip: User browser search (alt/cmd-f) to find sites.
We filter and sort recent logs identifying sites we have successfully indexed. github
http://ward.dojo.fed.wiki/assets/pages/search-index-logs/sites-indexed.html HEIGHT 200
A variety of things can go wrong with sites that prevent successful index updates. We keep trying reporting most recent error today.
http://ward.dojo.fed.wiki/assets/pages/search-index-logs/sites-missing.html HEIGHT 200
We recognize as retired sites gone for good or otherwise not safe to index.
http://ward.dojo.fed.wiki/assets/pages/search-index-logs/sites-retired.html HEIGHT 200
We return again to the collection of mostly Ruby scripts that implement federation search motivated by fending off slow decay based on growth and evolution in the federation.
The Super Collaborator explored online collaboration based on Croquet. We've stepped back from this interaction but think its graph merging mechanism will be useful for relating "read me" level documentation across many repos. demo
Scan scripts in an asset folder for graph annotations then download to upload for browsing system diagrams.
http://ward.dojo.fed.wiki/assets/pages/search-index-logs/scripts/scan-assets.html HEIGHT 50
pages/search-index-logs/scripts