Talk:Print Kiosk
Contents
DREAM SEQUENCE
22 September 2018
Clara
Between 5-630h
So I woke up from a dream about a teacher and BS (Beyond Social, though bullshit was also involved in the dream)
Some ideas came from the dream and the dreamlike state after the dream.
Wordplay on or misunderstanding of The Commons
Using data to find out what The (literally) Common is, a concept that anyway has been emptied of much of its meaning so there is a void to be filled. Also just annoyed at people using or claiming to be commoning when they're not. So why not misuse the concept and in doing so perhaps find out something more interesting.
What if f from the most and least common word lists, we go into each of the most common words and find out what words they have or don't have in common (most/least common denominators)?
What if inside each common word or inside each of the BS categories you see the most/least common words inside the articles? (We could see what the topic is biased for or against this way)
Chatroom funxtion
For the break/transition between machine chat and human chat:
What if the human chat started with the question (asked by librarian to visitor) Would you prefer to talk to a human or would you rather keep chatting to me?
Confuse the visitor. Make them think they're still talking to machine/AI, if they choose to keep chatting with computer. It can be the reverse of those tests designed to see whether a machine can pass as human. If they choose to chat with "machine," human will have to act like machine trying to act like a human lol. And then at the end we ask visitor if they think they were chatting with human or machine.
Maybe we can sell it as AI portion of project. Deep learning Vs shadow learning.
Receipt printer
Maybe the receipt is something you get from the main printer you've chatted with before you can go to librarian if you choose the human talk option?
If we ask questions like: choose the words you think should be most orleast common in a Social Practice curriculum
Theyy can see in receipt printer later which ones they got wrong and right AND the data set the list is trained on (actual most and least common words) . So in the end the receipt also acts as self-institutional critique. The receipt is transparency. You usually only get the result of quizzes you participate in, Neve rthe data set or set of rules that is determining your results.
Human chat
If they choose human chat they can facetime with a librarian. Either real face time or video chat
Assistants
We need volunteers to help serve information, assemble final info packets and maybe also gather information as silent observers stationed around theroonm. Maybe the data of secret observers (wearing white jacket, looks nervous) can also be useful? Can be served in receipt printer too. Talk with student volunteers about this on October 5.
Ok am going back to bed still have an hour of sleep left!
WORK SESSION 2 🐸
21 September 2018 Manetta, Andre, Clara
Frequency ... oh dear frequency
🚩RED FLAG: "MOST FREQUENT WORDS" LIST SCRAPED FROM THE WIKI CONTENT: Where is: Care? Engagement? Activism? The Other? Queer? Feminism? Gender? Race? Black? Brown? Inclusivity? Ethics? Culture? Sensitivity? Reality? Context? Politics? Subversion? Resistance? Cohesion? The Commons? Power? Politics? Humane? Human? The Institution? Theory? Post-Colonial? Decolonial? Eurocentric? Patriarchy? Privilege? Capitalism? CRITIQUE? Question? Humility? Conflict? 🚩
Counting words https://github.com/wdka-publicationSt/print-kiosk-ii/blob/master/wiki-word-count.py
social 1308
category 1279
design 1236
people 845
project 768
article 701
new 637
also 629
file 561
jpg 517
selector 492
way 475
art 440
one 437
different 416
work 408
http 398
rotterdam 393
make 392
students 385
research 373
wiki 331
like 330
beyond 328
change 324
could 322
www 316
br 309
world 307
use 306
game 290
economy 290
designers 285
open 276
community 272
wdka 272
future 267
create 265
within 259
time 259
would 259
first 255
process 255
business 254
space 233
com 233
see 233
city 230
projects 229
society 226
Snaps
File:Wdka-printer-interface-secure-queue.jpg
What is panarchy? Pure governance and networked governance. Global system of rule. Romanticized as peaceful and pastoral. Laissez faire economics.
What is ordoliberalism? German system of order/rules applied to liberal politics.
What is voluntaryism? All human interactions should be voluntary.
HNI Talk island.eu (to be published on verticalatlas.net, talk in collaboration with thedigitalearth.org):
Benjamin Bratton Stack Model BB says it's problematic to equate user to citizen
Victoria Ivanova Looking at ways to make citizenship more dynamic, human rights context. Case of death row inmates who could try to get EU citizenship to escape death penalty in US.
Eavesdropping on HTML Class Being Held in the Same Room Where We Are Working
Introduction to the web, the www, which came while the internet was already around for a while, but introduced the language HTML.
Early netart examples:
WORK SESSION 1 🤯
18 September 2018 Manetta, Andre, Clara
Non-Ether Pad
Transcribed Conversations + Developer Post-Scripts
CONVERSATIONS
DEVELOPER POST-SCRIPTS
MANETTA: Students who want to change the CSS? They are allowed to do so in individual pages, but not on home page Prioritize, now it's more important to fix structure and other concerns If students will be involved as editors, they can be added to the administrator right group Where is the admin page with instructions and manual?
CLARA: User Permissions... What is semantic wiki curator?
ANDRE: Tim Berners Lee (semantic wiki) how machines can query the web in a smart way, if I ask a question that is very specific, this information must be translated to queries for a machine to understand, It would be a big change from how we normally query information via google search, it didn’t really work because it’s a chaotic place and it needs an agreement on vocabularies and lots of manual labor, the universe is too large for this, but within a small universe such as a wiki it works wikipedia was having roblemsw its their categorization because for instance if you have an example such as Trump, categories start to overlap because there is no limit to what you can say any given thing is so it created a profusion of categorizations… territory is flat, no hierarchy, so semantic media wiki came as a way to address that problem but in the meantime wikipedia started working with Wikidata it’s a very structured, very dry categorization of objects and entries, in several languages, with property and value (continent would be property and Asia would be the value and Philippines would be the object of the search).. it’s problematic, a bit of a mindfuck, often the more official and correct ways of doing it are very constraining you really need a group of editors that understands and designs the information structure.
At the moment we use the category mechanism which is using different boxes
Category: Easy to add new, difficult to remove old tags from all instances, but you can remove a category
CLARA: Editorial Board: Semantic Committee Could edit categories? Is there a place where they are defined? A glossary of categories? Could be included in the article relation, when you click on it there is a definition. This could be the task of the new editorial board or semantic committee, an admission that the task of categorization is fundamentally fluid. We should have our own definitions, as well as link to other texts or definitions that we find useful
Yes, all the categories that we work with are listed on this page: http://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Topic:Topics. To add a topic: make a page in the format Topic:yourtopichere and copy/paste the smw query from another topic page, for example from Topic:Activism. It will add your new topic to the umbrella category "Topics", which is queried on the Topic:Topics page. (A bit of an iterative act..:) we use it to make the overview pages with the thumbnails.)
> i copied this over to the Administrators_tips page.
A few notes on categories && semantic tags:
* Categories <> Semantic tagging. Semantic Tags ... are more nuanced, in the way that a tag contains a semantic direction of the 'grouping' so to say. For example: by categories you place "trump" in the category "president", in the semantic tagging system, you tag "trump" with the tag "position" : "president". The intention of the category is not "blanco", or the act of categorising is not but it comes with a direction, namely "position". * add a link to the topic in the Form:Article layout * add the description of each topic to the topic page
CLARA: List of basic wiki commands?
MANETTA: You mean syntax
CLARA: Does it exist? Can it be embedded from another page?
MANETTA: Yes, it's the Manual section (right now it's on the horizontal menu at the top of the page (> http://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Manual)
ANDRE: The act of hyperlinking/embedding to other pages or wikis (interwikis) with the same software (mediawiki), basically making them part of your ecosystem. We can add shortcuts/ short extensions TRANSCLUSION: Concept by Ted Nelson Transclusion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Transclusion
MANETTA + CLARA *mini-class*:
To embed another page, type an address like this:
{{Namespace:Pagename}}
Example 1: {{User:Andre}} to transclude a user page
Example 2: {{File:Whateverfilename.jpg}} to transclude a file
Example 3: {{Print_Kiosk}} to transclude a whole page in main namespace (no need to type the namespace, it doesn't have one)
Am gonna request/transclude the address {{User:Andre}} now, to embed User:Andre's page, so you can see what happens.
Template:Namespace:Pagename Help pages:
fight spam
Follow https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:DeleteBatch.php and Special:BlockBatch
Wiki Settings
Extensions
SelectCategory
SelectCategory is responsible for the bottom category selection in menus
Extension does not work with skin Vector in MW 1.26. Needs to be changed to wfLoadSkin( 'MonoBook' );
And requires CategoryTree. See settings in #CategoryTree section.
Requires Categories to be organized as parents and children, with the parent category defined in extensions/SelectCategory/SelectCategory.php
#$wgSelectCategoryNamespaces - list of namespaces in which this extension should be active
if( !isset( $wgSelectCategoryNamespaces ) ) $wgSelectCategoryNamespaces = array(
NS_MEDIA => true,
NS_MAIN => true,
NS_TALK => false,
NS_USER => false,
NS_USER_TALK => false,
NS_PROJECT => true,
NS_PROJECT_TALK => false,
NS_IMAGE => true,
NS_IMAGE_TALK => false,
NS_MEDIAWIKI => false,
NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK => false,
NS_TEMPLATE => false,
NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => false,
NS_HELP => true,
NS_HELP_TALK => false,
NS_CATEGORY => true,
NS_CATEGORY_TALK => false
);
# $wgSelectCategoryRoot - root category to use for which namespace, otherwise self detection (expensive)
if( !isset( $wgSelectCategoryRoot ) ) $wgSelectCategoryRoot = array(
NS_MEDIA => "BS",
NS_MAIN => "BS",
NS_TALK => false,
NS_USER => false,
NS_USER_TALK => false,
NS_PROJECT => "BS",
NS_PROJECT_TALK => false,
NS_IMAGE => "BS",
NS_IMAGE_TALK => false,
NS_MEDIAWIKI => false,
NS_MEDIAWIKI_TALK => false,
NS_TEMPLATE => false,
NS_TEMPLATE_TALK => false,
NS_HELP => "BS",
NS_HELP_TALK => false,
NS_CATEGORY => "BS",
NS_CATEGORY_TALK => false
);
CategoryTree
require_once( "$IP/extensions/CategoryTree/CategoryTree.php" ); $wgUseAjax = true; $wgCategoryTreeDynamicTag = true; $wgCategoryTreeSidebarRoot = "BS"; #$wgCategoryTreeDefaultOptions['mode'] = 'all'; /* $wgCategoryTreeMaxChildren = 400; */ $wgCategoryPagingLimit = 400; $wgCategoryTreeForceHeaders = true; $wgCategoryTreeSpecialPageOptions=true; $wgCategoryTreeDynamicTag=true; $wgCategoryTreeDefaultMode=true;
MANETTA + CLARA *convo*: menu (Mediawiki:Sidebar) on the top, creating more accessible/legible names, making it clear that there is an editing corner so to speak. switching the special pages to the editing menu, calling it something like do some maintenance. also the contributions menu option is like an activity log, name should clear.
CLARA: What is the beyond social publishing page? mostly online publications?
MANETTA + ANDRE: 3 publications. 1 wiki to print folder, loose sheets on the table and people could collect material into the folder. 2nd round of this. Maybe some fliers (used those in print kiosk for grad show) Who knows this well is Kimmy.
CLARA *thought bubble*: We need to document the print history of Beyond Social a little better? Also we need to bind the last print kiosk collection and photograph. Need to ask for student help once all the urgent shit is sorted.
CLARA + MANETTA *convo*: Need to rewrite user manuals or editor manuals (or page editing interface -- the article form) so that people know how to use each form in the best way. issue of uploading photos twice or multiple times can be addressed here.
A: Working with Mediawiki , a good book that goes from very basic editing to very complex subjects such as semantic media wiki, etc... http://www.workingwithmediawiki.com/book/
MANETTA: mostly student works on BS this year, before it was teachers and externals mostly but not all of the old articles are available on the site since they haven't been formatted to the new structure. but they're searchable.
MANETTA: 378 content articles listed "main namespace" excluding the pages that are under user namespace or under files or under media wiki admin pages, sometimes there are copies with different title name
http://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php/Special:AllPages
DEVELOPMENT MEETINGS
7 September 2018 Manetta, Kimmy, Andre, Clara
25 May 2018 Manetta, Iris, Clara
Notes From Two Meetings Transcribed as Call-Response
Call
RESPONSE
Students don’t understand it, find it hard to contribute
Is it a publishing platform or an archive?
Started as a magazine=type thing based on Wikipedia platform
Manta came in between issue 2 and 3 , discussions around strutting of content and categories and topics
The fact that teana needed to choose a category, and names of the categories themselves
————what is the location of the category? Via semantic—— vocabulary issue
Wikipedia faced this problem because people start creating categories that are synonyms
It’s not a technological question, it’s an archive problem
, questions on changing structure every issue, but wiki makes difficult because changes would mean archival structure is gone
Can the wiki as a reading space be welcoming and by nature it isn’t, the solution was redesigning the wiki so it’s more appealing as a reading space. The other option that we developed in the first few issues was to have a separate reading interface where the content was pulled in
THURSDAY 13 7 PM talk in Amsterdam Renee turner talk Warp and Weft of Memory, includes stuff of semantic wiki
used to be text driven, now its rethought used wiki not just as backend but use it in fullest glory, functions
Went to use the wiki as a wiki again, to use the functions, not pulling it from another website
layers of using wiki, social dimension
Underutilized at the moment
talk page function, place to get comments
Without having a critical mass that could sustain it on its own bS should be Playground! Sandbox Social practice didn’t own it, Kimmy was brought it in the project to keep it alive
social layers to be included in interface, make our own layout for the interface, skin
Very important, students annoyed cos they needed to have structure to make the front pages visible, everything is in a form, there is no creativity
Get rid of those forms, still think of image attached to an article
ONE OPEN FIELD, insert html Take over in color schemes Separation between layout and structure of content None of them have to be fixed
listening to the wiki and seeing what to do with functions of the wiki instead of forcing into a strict template which reveals its problems.. wikis are more fluid, templates we we’re making were more magazine-like
editathons were helpful to remove workload from manetta
EDITORIALS - used to be framed within issues
PRINT VERSION in time for ELIA conference
Avenir Heavy - Font
ELIA - November 2018 Finished by October 2018 Concept of publication should be done by July
How do you keep on this playfulness, bring a human dimension to the machine element
Design that is changeable Collecting the material assembling the material (more in the sense of downloading)
Cherry picking
Printer talking to you Create a series of questions that lead us to certain selection LaTeX it’s a printing layout language for creating typographically correct documents Can change a lot but you have to play with rules
Christophe Haag —— based in cologne, freeze.sh
Making a printer to speak to you Different forms of uploading, Mac frank and Giulia, a physical scanner that makes it easy to upload to the wiki
ELIA conference gives a short pitch for Beyond Social
Slideshow Application by Iris,