Browsing Wikispore for the first time, I was interested that an Art
Spore was highlighted on the front page. However it is no more than a
brief propositional description.
Trying to give some thought to what might be the possibilities of this
project, I placed some scoping thoughts on the Talk page:
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Art_Spore
I am not sure how active this mailing list is, but, either here or on
that Talk page, I would be interested to find whether my scoping
thoughts are consistent with what is envisaged for that Spore, whether
people have other artefacts which might help build towards some content
there, etc.
I have checked with a few people, and here are some concerns regarding
Wikispore, which, I am sure, can be easily resolved. I am happy to help
with the first three if I sense consensus on these topics.
1) Privacy policy
2) Terms of use
3) Code of Conduct
I am sure we'll easily agree on the first two, just taking the respective
policies from the other WMF Wikis and link them accordingly.
Regarding 3), mediawiki.org has a CoC, meta does not, and I would really
like us to start Spores per default with a CoC. What are your thoughts?
4) Visual Editor?
Would it be easy to set that up? My guess is that Spores are for novel user
groups, and VE seems to be something useful. But I also think to remember
that setting up VE used to be sometimes a bit complex.
Stay safe,
Denny
We are planning Wikispore Day for Sunday July 19, to be hosted on Wikipedia
Weekly Network.
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikispore_Dayhttps://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Weekly_Network
The current schedule has a 3-hour run time, but I think it may be best to
reduce it to 2 hours.
I was thinking of a possible run-down like this:
History of Wikispore 15 minutes
Wikispore tour and list of spores 10 minutes
Spore subject highlight A 10 minutes
Spore subject highlight B 10 minutes
Wikilambda 30 minutes
Docs plus / etherpad 45 minutes including 8 three-minute lightning talks
We welcome anyone on this mailing list to participate (and your friends
too), even if you have not written a lot of Wikispore (noone has written a
lot yet!), or if your ideas are mainly for things that can only be
accomplished in the longer term.
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)
Hi Germinators [what’s the wikinym [1] for Wikispore?],
While I was trying to catch up on Abstrapedia [is that a permissible
contraction? ;) ] during my first time on the call today (that was
marred by some technical difficulties on my end) I was thinking that the
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikilambda:Wikilambda/Plan
was not well-linked to
the
https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Wikilambda_talk:Wikilambda/Glossary
entries.
Are there any Wikispore processes or Mediawiki extensions could help
with building glossaries and maybe automate linking to their entries
where relevant? I’m imagining something like a magic word that
associates a glossary page with an article, and maybe a bot that looks
for occurrences of entries in the article to link, perhaps with some
heuristic as to whether the intended sense might match the gloss, and
maybe even with some mechanism to flag ambiguous words in the article
that are yet to be linked to the proper gloss.
This could help force writers to be more concise in their writing, help
readers’ understanding (especially when not having followed a topic from
the outset), and perhaps help with translation of articles.
Independently of Wikispore I’d be particularly interested in what one
might call hierarchical glossaries: If a term isn’t defined in the
page-locally-associated glossary, the link goes to that glossary’s
‘parent glossary’ that might offer a more general, but (hopefully) still
valid definition.
And for extra credit, can we come up with a solution that uses Wikidata
as the glossary (or maybe Wikipetri/Wikidish?, a Wikispore-related
Wikibase instance)?
best,
Loren
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikinym
I invite you to join us on Sunday July 12, at 3PM New York, 7PM UTC, 9PM
Berlin.
Topics include Abstract Wikipedia (with special guest Denny!), Wikispore
Day planning for next week, basic wiki policies, crisis coverage, our next
featured "laurel".
Here is our video meeting room:
https://meet.wmcloud.org/wikispore
Thanks,
Richard
(User:Pharos)