 | Federated Wiki | 198 Members |
| General Federated Wiki Discussion | 34 Servers |
| Federated Wiki | 198 Members |
| General Federated Wiki Discussion | 34 Servers |
| Sender | Message | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 23 Jul 2021 | ||
 mike_hales | A friend posed a query in Mastodon, about wiki, Turns out they were wondering whether wiki might furnish UI to an ecosystem of federating apps (designed for managing supply chains/valuechains). Here's what I said to them: https://social.coop/@bhaugen/106629800084556070 | 14:36:21 |
 Ward | Yes, that is a good characterization of wiki when it is working well. Some of these features have been illustrated by working example but are not automatic in the same was as, say, Recent Changes. | 16:40:32 |
| mike_hales |
Yep. A whole lot of skill and judgement required, to REALLY use the tools that otherwise just sit there waiting! We return again to the matter of education being required, alongside any wider provision of wiki? 'Wiki literacy'? | 17:05:29 |
| Ward |  Download lineup-diagram.svg | 18:56:47 |
| Ward | This is the publication from which the Climate Change model has been extracted. | 18:58:22 |
| Ward | http://regenerate.ward.asia.wiki.org/ | 18:58:23 |
| Ward | (My cut-and-paste import to wiki.) | 18:58:50 |
| 24 Jul 2021 | ||
| Ward | Kerry constructed a vensim model from a pdf document offering an analysis of climate change. I have imported her model into one wiki and imported the source document into another. Now I have joined the model and document by key-word-in-context concordance. Here is a snapshot of me using this to improve the model pages. | 23:36:40 |
| Ward |  Download Screen Shot 2021-07-24 at 4.29.36 PM.png | 23:36:57 |
| Ward | Source Concordance => esch section is another model variable and a summary of document pages were keywords from the model name appear. Counts say how often, counting paragraphs. I have selected Our Global Solution. | 23:41:20 |
| Ward | Kwik Our Global Solution => The four paragraphs are quoted here with keywords shown in red. Links here make it easy to open the relevant pages in both wiki. Here I hover over a quote to find that paragraph in the source document. | 23:44:00 |
| Ward | Our Global Solution => I have a clean version of the plant-carbon paragraph here. | 23:47:17 |
| Ward | Carbon Stored in Plants => I forked this page from the model wiki because I have chosen to make modifications in a clone where I merge revisions by this mechanism and local changes that you, kind reader, have contributed as I have suggested above. Try this yourself. | 23:50:14 |
| Ward | http://climate.ward.asia.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors/view/ward-cunningham/view/source-concordance | 23:50:50 |
| 25 Jul 2021 | ||
| mike_hales | In reply to @Ward:matrix.orgThis looks like a very powerful working frame - models plus sources plus concordance tools. Wish I had time to experiment and adopt it, but I'm up-to-here with stuff. Would you write a tutorial page on the technique Ward , to fork for future reference? | 09:09:52 |
| Ward | My usual approach is to take some tool or process and recast it as a cooperative activity using the features already present in wiki. This makes this more technology driven than anything with a theory behind it. I do hope that a useful theory comes out of this but suspect the insights will be others. The code simply looks for words from titles in one wiki among the pages of another wiki. There are a few special cases included, like ignoring pages that have "Loop" in their title or pages that don't have a Graph plugin. If there are other applications I would gladly customize the html script that does the heavy lifting here. | 14:18:25 |
| Ward | https://github.com/WardCunningham/assets/blob/master/pages/transformation-explored/kwik.html#L19-L50 -- 30 lines build the index https://github.com/WardCunningham/assets/blob/master/pages/transformation-explored/kwik.html#L52-L70 -- 20 lines create the browsing interface | 14:20:13 |
| Ward | I've been looking for experience reports that involve collaborative construction of system dynamics models from partial ones. The examples I find are deeply embedded in application areas so are somewhat hard to read. Here is one with provocative images. http://found.ward.bay.wiki.org/integrated-perspective.html | 14:24:08 |
| mike_hales |
I wasn't thinking of theorising it 🤓 Just . . on the basis of that lineup you gave, I don't feel I would know how to configure and drive the wiki, the source wiki, the page/plugin that does the concordance work. It's a behind-the-scenes description of the working setup I was thinking of. | 14:43:59 |
| mike_hales | Maybe if I spend more time in climate.ward.asia.wiki I will find that (or deduce it). | 14:44:14 |
| Ward | Ah. I will write a how-to page explaining what to click for what kind of result. The first cut of this is exactly what I wrote above. You can get a feel for how this works from the sample I setup here: http://climate.ward.asia.wiki.org/view/welcome-visitors/view/ward-cunningham/view/source-concordance | 14:47:39 |
| Ward | We see html scripts becoming an important part of "wiki doing work". As such they should be coded and documented to some standard and then collected in a curated library somewhere. We're just starting to talk about this and happy to hear suggestions. | 14:50:07 |
| mike_hales |
Music to my ears. I don't think I have the hands-on knowhow to contribute substantially to this knowledge base. But I'm 120% behind curating. | 14:53:17 |
 eric | I will miss our sunday pioneers & wiki admins meeting for an aikido seminar. | 15:27:49 |
| 26 Jul 2021 | ||
| Ward | I had a bloated page which I forked to localhost to fix. I was dragging content to a new page, then eventually deleted the bloated page. But search broke in the process. Shift reloads didn't help. So I looked at what index files I had behind this. | 14:39:34 |
| Ward | | 14:39:41 |
| Ward | Help me understand what information index-updated represents and how it is used? The site-index.json was updating but not the index-updated file. | 14:41:17 |
| Ward | The good news is that deleting all the files fixed everything. | 14:42:11 |
| Ward | It also gives me a new set of file sizes that might hint at what has gone wrong. | 14:42:42 |
| Ward | In the defective state all searches produced no result which shows as a little tiny white result box about the size of a capsule pill. | 14:43:41 |