Updates & Corrections
Every published change to this archive's content — what changed, when, and on whose guidance.
This archive corrects itself in public. When something here is found to be wrong — by a reader, or on expert review — the correction is made and recorded on this page, not made silently. If you find something wrong, we would rather hear it than keep it. Get in touch.
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— Site-wide
A public updates and corrections log was added, and every article now shows when it was last updated together with its own revision history.
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— Durava
The Durava article was substantially expanded: the origin of the name in ten duties owed to the Sinhala court, the community's own descent account, Sitinamaluwe Dhammajoti Thera's role in the eighteenth-century Buddhist revival, and the settlement geography. Two sources were added to the bibliography — E. W. Perera's "Sinhala Banners and Standards" (1916) and Sir Paul E. Pieris on the Portuguese period.
Guidance: Anuru de Silva
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Gongalegoda Banda and W.A. de Silva were removed from the directory following expert review of community affiliation.
Guidance: Anuru de Silva
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Martin Wickramasinghe and Munidasa Kumaratunga were removed from the directory following expert review of community affiliation. Sir Paul Pieris and Dr E.W. Adikaram were reviewed and confirmed.
Guidance: Anuru de Silva
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The Radala are now listed under their own heading with their own introduction, rather than in one list with Govigama individuals. The former "Aristocracy & Independence" section became "Independence Movement".
Guidance: Anuru de Silva
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Mangala Samaraweera was removed from the directory: expert review found he did not belong to the community this archive documents.
Guidance: Anuru de Silva
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— Communities of Sri Lanka
The communities are now listed as equals — alphabetical in each language, with no numbering and no first or last place. The previous top-to-bottom list could be read as a ranking, which these pages argue against.
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— Site-wide
The site's visual identity changed from maroon to the dark bottle-green and gold that is the Govigama community's documented colour convention, as recorded in Nevan Pieris' "The Community".
Guidance: Anuru de Silva