Massive Wiki Wednesday (US-EU), 2021-09-08

Hashtags: #SaplingPage #EarlyDraft #MeetingNotes (not yet a #MightyOakPage)

Other hashtags: #TreeMaturitySapling or #TreeSapling or #PageMaturitySapling

CategoryLinks: SaplingPage

Other "page" hashtags:

• PageMaturity
• PageType
• PageAuthor
• PageMaintainer
• PageCharacteristics

People

Bill Anderson, Simon Grant, Miriam Dym, Peter Kaminski

Topics

• yesterday's Massive Wiki Wednesday
• VNC to a remote computer running Obsidian
• Python access to Mattermost for the purpose of interfacing with Massive Wiki
• doing the next architectural diagram
  • the peer-to-peer version
• Project Clambake
• David Bovill's project around Open Language
• Pete's tree metaphor for page maturity
  • Nature Metaphors
  • observation: there are different lifecycle models
• Namespaces in wikis
• dc: terms (Dublin Core)
• multilingual tagging
  • see PageTranslation (MeatballWiki)
• aliases like Roam
• User-centered design
• Clear, simple, intuitive
• Community of Practice vs. "In group"

Page Maturity

Idea: if a page has changed since you've linked to it, the link should tell you that the page has changed, and may have different meaning.

What are the use cases for page maturity.

A tree metaphor might make people think pages grow by themselves, rather than by people working on it.

Zoom Chat

riamir

is there a way to have a header look temporary?

Erik Willekens

that exists in trello for cards

riamir

thx

trees + mycorrhizal network?

Bill Anderson

i have been thinking more about “free association” relationships among chunks

riamir

tree-saplingpage

Bill Anderson

my poodle Zander is demanding attention here

Bear uses tags for organization so you can have tags like #science/climate

riamir

To extend the metaphor, this book might be useful: Entangled Life, Merlin Sheldrake

https://dublincore.org/

Bill Anderson

for me vocabularies are fuzzy - gets me into trouble all the time (how did i ever become a chemist?)

riamir

^+1 (except the chemist part)

Simon Grant

Very old convention from early in the web: work in progress...

riamir

PageQualities

Simon Grant

"Shibboleth"

Bill Anderson

how to tell a joke - it’s not all about timing

when GPT-3 starts writing wikis

Peter Kaminski

vnc://18.222.30.191:5900

riamir

horizons, not boundaries

inclusion and trust