Massive Wiki Wednesday (ANZ-Asia), 2021-07-28

People

Wendy Elford, Bentley Davis, Peter Kaminski

Topics

• Remo
• Wiki "archetypes"
  • how do people wiki?
  • what are different kinds of wiki?
    • which are "good" in what context?
    • which are "bad" in what context?
  • http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/
• Massive Wiki Organizational Projects
• Massive Wiki Community Wikis
• Remo
• GDM

Wiki Archetypes

• what are the next ways wiki might get used
• wiki as interactive (solo or collab) knowledge artifact (rather than a boot or a static website)
  • disintermediates knowledge flows away from author-publisher loops

Massive Wiki Motivations

Infrastructure

• usable without servers or specific editors

Git

• fork/pull, branches, PRs, structured conversations about the diffs
• holding space for conversations about the knowledge space

Wiki Metaphors

• Cauliflower
• Jungle
• Bamboo Forest
  • Bonsai

GDM (G*** Docs to Massive)

• a sibling to Matrix-to-Massive
• the idea is to pull Google Docs in a particular folder, transform them to Markdown, and then put them into a folder in a Massive Wiki
• wikis are open space for interaction
• dimensionality of knowledge

Remo

• spatiality
  • wikis (and knowledge in general) is spatial
• able to share screen and have video on, and viewers can choose which person/screen to make primary

Massive Wiki Community Wikis

• "marcom" site
• user community
• developer community
• some kind of knowledgebase?

Massive Wiki Organization Projects

• Simplest Path To Git
  • Windows, Mac
• Critical Massive Wiki Builder Bugs
• Matrix to Massive
• Branding and Logos
• Rationalizing MW Org Wikis
• Community Knowledgebase Wikis (CSC?)
  • subsidiarity (chunking, naming)
    • books
    • people profiles
  • federation (linking)
• Skins
  • Wiki with sidebar
• CSC GitLab and/or Gitea
  • remember not to stick on "Git", but Ma SVF (shared, versioned files)
• Outreach
• Advanced Massive Wiki
  • "levels"
  • interwiki linking
  • federating pages
  • Git branches, fork/pull, pull requests collaboration
• Opal
• GDM (G*** Docs to Massive)

Opal

• Ionic (Electron, Web)
• Editor: MCEditor, CK Edit, Quill, SlateJS (used by Netlify CMS)?
• Git client

Links and Resources

• A Multidimensional Model To Map Knowledge (Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, August 2005) (Luis Alberto Casillas-Santillan, University of Guadalajara, Mexico)