Thank you for this bump Alastair :-)
Hope you do not mind me adapting the subject...

On Fri, Aug 26, 2022 at 12:52 PM <adickson@allyd.co.uk> wrote:

Cargo seems promising as a lightweight data storage (though it would be good to include Wikidata Q numbers for future federation).

I think this Wikispore discussion died out without follow-up on technical aspects if it is Cargo, Page Forms or something else to enable this, while in reality... I feel we should be truly experimental and secure resources to run maybe even two instances of Wikispore so we can test more then one option at the time.

I notice Z's question at [https://wikispore.wmflabs.org/wiki/Talk:Cargo] about the desirability of a beginner's tutorial on using Cargo: that doesn't appear to have been answered?

Indeed - it seems like there are very few people checking out talk pages as many conversations stalled in 2001 or even earlier...maybe we can agree that we need to change our way of working and use the rest of 2022 to test a few options. I hope one of these could be to have a person that could do community support at least a day a week before the end of 2022. This could fit 5k requests.

If there was such a tutorial, what I would really like to see is an example of moving from data table query to rendering it - as Peter says above "on maps and/or timelines and/or network graphs". If that is feasible/easy, that would be a strong foundation for showing these new forms of knowledge.

I could imagine doing this as a zoom session and editing it down to be even nicer to watch later with amended info and links...
@Richard Knipel Can you secure a WikipediaWeekly early November slot?
Who could deliver this technical demo as a part of upcoming 2022 activities?

Best Z. Blace