Wednesday wiki.
topics: reflections on wiki architecture on client, server, and search; which choices have been important in maintaining the essential fedwiki affordances of a set of sites in conversation, and what a site consists of (page = slug, title, story; story = item, item, item...)? which choices have been more constraining or burdensome on reflection? comparison of browsing API (pretty solid) and the update and history affordances (less so).
Demo and experiments with taking a page and editing it separately and pulling in updates by dragging the journal from a remote page to a writable local copy with the same page title, then forking the resulting merged page if it looks good. See Looking at Folding Bikes.
Source control workflow, including git branching, moving, and forking. "git reflog" use to recover clobbered or lost commits.
An extended reflection on using sets of fedwiki sites for collaboration, partly springing from Brian's questions about scaling to creating a common perspective or statement from a larger group of folks than Thompson Morrison's and co-authors.
Ward and Paul's ongoing work to create and update the tools, including the Supercollaborator; Ward and Thompson reflecting together on how the collaborative book process was achieved; perhaps Thompson will need to show sequences of annotated screen shots to give examples of the moves in the editing process. Ward reflects that Thompson's process comparing sets of linked pages in the Supercollaborator isn't present in page history, but was important in shaping editing decisions.
The Tilt Five VR/AR system, and Ward's prototyping of 3D renderings which could be used with Tilt Five for making sense of data sets, exploring and zooming through the representations and getting detail in the close-up views.
How big is a screen? Many mobile devices have small-in-size screens which have many pixels of detail. A nod back to the mobile device affordances; they may be able to provide sharper images than AR/VR goggles.
Ward demonstrates 3D working diagrams of server health and status which can be turned, zoomed, and looked into for details; a aggregate of small multiples in the Tufte sense but offering space for moving through interactively.
Robert Sterbal offers fun mosaic renderings of Ward's 3D visual navigation graphs derived from an information technology business's server operational status.
Nick Niemeir attending, a member of the community with strong contributions to the platform whom I (transcriber) haven't seen often on Zoom.