Massive Wiki Builder, 2024-02-28

Also see https://hackmd.io/qnrOlNX8Sgicasqqo9g9wA?both

Project Candidates

• Edit This Page button
• Transclusion
• Build warning when multiple pages with same name detected
  • would need a system to write progress notes into an HTML file in the build
• GitHub-based commenting system
  • https://utteranc.es/
  • https://github.com/giscus/giscus
• Webmentions
• 2-3 new themes
• PyPI modules
• annotate external links with destination domain
  • decide whether to do destination domain or just an icon (like Wikipedia)
• multiple page templates
  • multiple sidebars?
• document favicon setup
• document how to change theme colors, etc.
• embed PDFs
• highlight sidebar item if it points to the current page (#44)
• Try to always write an index.html file #41

Notes

• Massive Wiki Builder name change
  • Massive Website Publisher?
  • Massive Personal Publisher?
  • MasWiki?
    • mas.wiki ? maswiki.org ?
    • MasWiki builder
• Amitav Ghosh talk
  • What if The Event (gradualist or sudden) already happened?
  • Gradualist vs. catastrophic is a boring conversation for me. Seems obvious it's both! --Slow
• Bill working on new README branch
• We should add tests for the directory flags (and Pete wants to change -w to -i, longer discussion)
• NeoBooks news, Fellowship of the Link news
• WikiBirthday - Mar 25
• Aaron Bushnell
  • https://countercatechism.wordpress.com/2024/02/27/bushnell/ - two Aarons
  • https://twitter.com/VetsAboutFace/status/1762270943609573454 - great points, looking forward to their full statement
• ship MWB 3.1 (3.1.4, most likely)