It’s a trap!

I got back into programming my own application again. It has been a long time, so I started simple:
The window for controlling the sea level of the world being generated had a minor defect. When it first came up it didn’t display a proper value for the percentage of the world covered in water. The instant the sea level was changed it would correct itself, but it still was annoying.
Now it isn’t.
Progress would have gone faster if Wikipedia hadn’t totally distracted me. I started out with trying to figure out what was the best description for an Ark (Hey, I was flooding the world!) and from there I eventually ended up in a discussion of Japan’s surrender during the second world war.
Can you guess the encyclopedia steps needed to get there?

And I would like to thank Admiral Ackbar for the title quote.