Wikispore/June 2020

June 14

June 14 @ 3PM New York / 7PM UTC / 9AM Berlin

June 14 agenda

Introductions
Wikilambda
basic wiki policies
crisis coverage
WikiJournals
Visual Editor
our next featured "laurel"
announcing docs.plus - edsaperia is making a suite of etherpad plugins that experiment with various aspects of ux around wiki-like behaviour. (these could also be re-implemented in mediawiki!) - if you're interested, contact ed@newspeak.house
- low affordance: a skin that looks like google docs, a brand that implies document paradigm (docs.plus)
- presence: integrated videochats, integrated chat, concurrent viewer/editor indicators
- retention: various experiments around subscription; email, push notifications, notification options
- scaling: instead of splitting larger works into multiple documents, use headings/tags/filters to give meaningful views on single large docs

June 14 attendees

Pharos (Richard)
koavf (Justin Anthony Knapp)
Tgr (Gergő)
edsaperia
Fuzheado M.
Amir E. Aharoni
Alan
Don
econterms (Peter)
SJ
ZBlace
Sannita

June 14 notes

Community needs to still adopt a free license. We should have privacy policy, terms of use, etc.--based on existing projects?

What is gating crisis is use of cargo - Crisis spore as I imagined it could have info from abstracts of many works related to covid. (my focus is economics.) The abstracts can then link to one another. Cargo enables queries so a wiki page could have a report showing all the papers tagged with a certain topic. (Or by the same author, or using the same dataset.) I have done this on several wikis, but on a small scale. Working together with other wikimedians we could summarize an academic literature effectively, rapidly, in a shared way. Crises are an opportunity to try this.

Wikijournal is hosted on Wikiversity (briefly used their own domain) and interested in spore if they get relevant extensions.

Categories vs. Namespaces vs. Subdirectories -Namespaces allow distinct extensions, CSS, etc. Also feels like you have a distinct thing. -Categories allow you to figure out naming, uniform editing. -Shorter URIs are better -Subpages are not well integrated in the software - Namespace scheme uses the namespace in every page title, not the string one would use in the flow of text which one could put [[]] to get quickly to

Anniversary of the concept is upcoming. Wikispore Day on July 14. -Promote more laurels and present them to the WMF community.

Code of Conduct. -Use model based on Berlin Code of Conduct to be positive about what is encouraged. https://berlincodeofconduct.org/ - Question: Was there a big change from the Berlin code to the WMF Technical code of conduct?

Next WikiSpore call June 28 -- it's every two weeks