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=WORK SESSION 2 🐸 =
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[https://pad.xpub.nl/p/BS-dev pad]
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__TOC__
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<section begin=test />
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=List of material to purchase=
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* RaspberryPi https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/raspberry-pi-3-model-b-plus?search=Raspberry
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* RaspberryPi power supply https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/rpi-psu-5-1v-2-5a--eu-uk
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* 2x SD card https://www.kiwi-electronics.nl/Transcend-32GB-Class-10-MicroSDHC-UHS-1
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* Receipt printer - from Publication Station (ask Wilco)
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* Thermal paper for receipt printer (ask Wilco the shop address)
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* Laser Printer (To ask Roger/Wilco if there are old ones around WdKA)
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* speakers (from action)
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<section end=test />
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=WORK SESSION 4 - TAKEOVER ELAINE =
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13 January 2020 🐆
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==solve issues==
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We checked the https://github.com/wdka-publicationSt/print-kiosk-ii/blob/master/README.md
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and [https://pandoc.org/installing.html updated pandoc] to the latest version (2.9.1.1) because the latex didn't work so to create a pdf from html. It worked with the laptop of A.! For the RPi we just upgraded it.
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To do: <br>
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* Create template (maybe we dont need that anymore)
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* Edit dialogue
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* Possibility for irc
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* Bring for the open day: screen, keyboard, paper, binding stuff
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=WORK SESSION 3 🐸 =
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==@Andre: how to render templates?==
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A1: using the render address: http://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php?title=BS_SHADOW_LIBRARY&action=render
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A1.1: same result seems to be possible when using the api with '''action=parse''' 
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http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?action=parse&page=BS_SHADOW_LIBRARY
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A.1.1.1: mwclient Site.parse() https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/pull/147 ???
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According to the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php#render documentation]
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Outputs the HTML rendering of the entire page content; similar to the view action, but only the unstyled article text is output, not any part of the user interface (additional toolboxes, search box, stylesheets, etc.).Note: For more stable programmatic access or to retrieve the HTML of only a piece of page content, you should use the parse API with page or pageid parameters.
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</blockquote>
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@Clara: review metadata on JSON + write test questions for survey
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=WORK SESSION 2 🐸 =  
 
21 September 2018
 
21 September 2018
 
Andre, Clara, Manetta
 
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[[File:Wdka-printer-interface-secure-queue.jpg]]
 
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👽 🤖 💩 (in no particular order)
 
👽 🤖 💩 (in no particular order)
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* poop is kyute
  
 
== Books / websites / ...==  
 
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http://www.workingwithmediawiki.com/wwm-2ed-cover.png
 
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====Page Properties===
 
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties
 
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** > http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?action=query&titles=De_Ceuvel&prop=categories&cllimit=10&format=json
 
** > http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?action=query&titles=De_Ceuvel&prop=categories&cllimit=10&format=json
  
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==Non-Ether Pad==
  
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==Transcribed Conversations==
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Full Scan
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[[File:FULL SCAN Developer Non-Ether Pad.jpg]]
  
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M: Students who want to change the CSS?
 
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They are allowed to do so in individual pages, but not on home page
 
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Prioritize, now it's more important to fix structure and other concerns
 
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If students will be involved as editors, they can be added to the administrator right group
 
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Where is the admin page with instructions and manual?
 
  
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C: User Permissions... What is semantic wiki curator?
 
  
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A: 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,
 
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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.
 
  
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At the moment we use the category mechanism which is using different boxes
 
  
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Category: Easy to add new, difficult to remove old tags from all instances, but you can remove a category
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Detail
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[[File:DETAIL Developer Non-Ether Pad.jpg]]
  
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'''C: Editorial Board: Semantic Committee'''
 
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Could edit categories? Is there a place where they are defined? <span color="green">[*]</span>
 
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A glossary of categories?
 
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Could be included in the article relation, when you click on it there is a definition
 
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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
 
  
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<span color="green">[*]</span> 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.)
 
  
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> i copied this over to the [[Administrators_tips]] page.
 
  
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A few notes on categories && semantic tags:
 
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* 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".
 
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* add a link to the topic in the Form:Article layout
 
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* add the description of each topic to the topic page
 
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C: List of basic wiki commands?
 
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M: You mean syntax
 
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C: Does it exist? Can it be embedded from another page?
 
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M: 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)
 
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A: 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
 
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TRANSCLUSION: Concept by Ted Nelson
 
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M+C talk about the 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.
 
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C: What is the beyond social publishing page? mostly online publications?
 
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A+M: 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)
 
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Who knows this well is Kimmy.
 
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C *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.
 
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C+M *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.
 
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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/
 
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M: 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 theyre searchable.
 
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378 content articles listed "main namespace" excluding the pages that are under user namespace or under files or under media wiki admin pages
 
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===General Impressions===
 
===General Impressions===
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<onlyinclude>
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Students don’t understand the page, find it hard to contribute, constraining in terms of format.
  
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Students don’t understand the page, find it hard to contribute, constraining in terms of format.
 
 
Content needs a lot of wetnursing, it doesn't organically appear, you need to "chase" after people to get them to contribute.  
 
Content needs a lot of wetnursing, it doesn't organically appear, you need to "chase" after people to get them to contribute.  
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It is not fully integrated into class/course material.
 
It is not fully integrated into class/course material.
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It needs a critical mass to sustain it on its own.
 
It needs a critical mass to sustain it on its own.
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Needs freshness, wildness, unpredictability, but still an underlying structure that makes it easy to navigate.
 
Needs freshness, wildness, unpredictability, but still an underlying structure that makes it easy to navigate.
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Events page is important.
 
Events page is important.
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</onlyinclude>
  
 
===Concept ELIA===
 
===Concept ELIA===
  
  
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PROMISCUOUS PRINT SERVICE?
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CHATTY PRINT SERVICE?
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Continuing the idea of what BS looks like in physical form, how does it become human, material, present in a space, able to engage with its community.
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Can the platform be made to speak? How can a digital platform give and be given a human voice?
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Three printers, serving three layers of information in the form of a personalized magazine.
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The content of the magazine is served to each visitor in three ways.
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===Printer Types===
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DOT MATRIX Cover
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LASER Guts
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RECEIPT Metadata (Chatroom Transcript)
  
  
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===Modes of Content Service===
  
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Tabulated Regular: Notes from Meeting 25 May 2018 with Iris and Manetta
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1. VIA METADATA (Limited Answer Survey)
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Left Aligned Bold: Notes from Current Meeting
 
  
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Students don’t understand it, find it hard to contribute
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Automated survey chat with questions related to metadata. Making useful to humans information that is usually readable only for machines.
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Answers are Y/N, multiple choice.
  
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Is it a publishing platform or an archive?
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2. VIA CATEGORIES (Free Answer Survey)
  
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Started as a magazine=type thing based on Wikipedia platform
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Automated survey that allows visitors to help define categories in the wiki. The content they are served corresponds to keywords the have typed in.
  
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Manta came in between issue 2 and 3 , discussions around strutting of content and categories and topics
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3. VIA HUMAN INTERACTION (Chatroom)
  
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Talk to a Librarian — Shadow Chat
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————what is the location of the category? Via semantic—— vocabulary issue
 
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Wikipedia faced this problem because people start creating categories that are synonyms
 
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It’s not a technological question, it’s an archive problem
 
  
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, questions on changing structure every issue, but wiki makes difficult because changes would mean archival structure is gone
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Volunteers of the BS Shadow Library chat with visitors, quizzing them briefly on what they are working on, interested in, not interested in, lacking or having too much of in their research. Based on this interaction, the librarian will serve content from the BS Shadow Library. Blurring the line between machinic and human voice, technoanimism as reality!
  
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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
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===To Be Determined===
  
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1. TIME LIMIT FOR LIBRARIAN CHAT?
  
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Shall the shadow chat be timed? 3 min limit? Productivity goals, as in call centers? A 3-min time limit that the librarians can choose to respect or not respect. Perhaps for the visitor the librarian "breaking the rules" for them and extending chat more than 3 min could be humanizing.
  
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2. SHADOW SHADOW CHAT? (Maybe too much?)
  
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Shall we include the feature of more than one librarian, having a secret shadow chat about the visitor to help serve them information? Then this shadow shadow chat (which appears and reappears in different sizes and locations at all BS physical event spaces, gathering material from students and teachers of the WdKA Social Practice Department's network)
  
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3. SIMPLIFY?
  
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Three printers too much? Probably necessary at some point to pull ideas back. Would be fine with pre-printing the covers on the dot matrix. But I dunno. For now, this is a wish list. Let's see how far we can go.
  
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===Task List===
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bS should be Playground! Sandbox
 
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social layers to be included in interface, make our own layout for the interface, skin
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1. Use content that is there, write or commission (probably write) an introductory essay
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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
 
  
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ONE OPEN FIELD, insert html
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Take over in color schemes
 
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None of them have to be fixed
 
  
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PRINT VERSION
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LOCATION
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in time for ELIA conference
 
  
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Avenir Heavy - Font
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Publication Station
  
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ELIA - November 2018
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TIME
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How do you keep on this playfulness, bring a human dimension to the machine element
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10–16h
  
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Collecting the material assembling the material (more in the sense of downloading)
 
  
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Sept 18 TUES
  
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Sept 21 FRI
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Create a series of questions that lead us to certain selection
 
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LaTeX it’s a printing layout language for creating typographically correct documents
 
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Can change a lot but you have to play with rules
 
  
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Christophe Haag —— based in cologne, freeze.sh
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Making a printer to speak to you
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Oct 5 FRI
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Different forms of uploading, Mac frank and Giulia, a physical scanner that makes it easy to upload to the wiki
 
  
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ELIA conference gives a short pitch for Beyond Social
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Oct 19 FRI
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Application by Iris,
 
  
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TASK LIST
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Nov 9 FRI
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THREE WAYS OF SERVING INFORMATION
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Nov 14 WED ------- PROTOTYPE TEST or FEEDBACK DAY?
  
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Metadata
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Nov 16 FRI ------- PROTOTYPE TEST or FEEDBACK DAY?
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Categories
 
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Talk to a Librarian — Shadow Library
 
  
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Nov 23 FRI ------- DEADLINE: ELIA DAY
  
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Dot Matrix for Cover/Back Cover
 
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Inkjet for Guts
 
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Receipt Printer for Conversation
 
  
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SECRET CHATROOM - SHADOW CHAT
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NOTES
  
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SCHEDULE
 
 
FRIDAY / TUESDAY Andre Free
 
FRIDAY / TUESDAY Andre Free
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Spend 60 hours now
 
Spend 60 hours now
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Spend 30 hours for HNI February / Graduation Show
 
Spend 30 hours for HNI February / Graduation Show
  
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Schedule is 6 hours work on Friday
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Schedule is 6 hours work on Friday, some Tuesdays depending on availability
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10 am - 4 pm
 
10 am - 4 pm
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CLARA TO MAKE PLANNING AND RESERVATIONS
 
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TASK LIST
 

Latest revision as of 16:17, 3 June 2021

pad

List of material to purchase

WORK SESSION 4 - TAKEOVER ELAINE

13 January 2020 🐆

solve issues

We checked the https://github.com/wdka-publicationSt/print-kiosk-ii/blob/master/README.md and updated pandoc to the latest version (2.9.1.1) because the latex didn't work so to create a pdf from html. It worked with the laptop of A.! For the RPi we just upgraded it.

To do:

  • Create template (maybe we dont need that anymore)
  • Edit dialogue
  • Possibility for irc
  • Bring for the open day: screen, keyboard, paper, binding stuff


WORK SESSION 3 🐸

@Andre: how to render templates?

A1: using the render address: http://beyond-social.org/wiki/index.php?title=BS_SHADOW_LIBRARY&action=render

A1.1: same result seems to be possible when using the api with action=parse http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?action=parse&page=BS_SHADOW_LIBRARY

A.1.1.1: mwclient Site.parse() https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/pull/147 ???

According to the documentation

Outputs the HTML rendering of the entire page content; similar to the view action, but only the unstyled article text is output, not any part of the user interface (additional toolboxes, search box, stylesheets, etc.).Note: For more stable programmatic access or to retrieve the HTML of only a piece of page content, you should use the parse API with page or pageid parameters.

@Clara: review metadata on JSON + write test questions for survey

WORK SESSION 2 🐸

21 September 2018 Andre, Clara, Manetta

Python interface to wiki API

  • mwclient
  • dowload all content pages's content (NS 0) - to make word analysis
  • search: pages with term in title/content
  • pages created/last edited in given month

mw client

Tutorial https://github.com/mwclient/mwclient/wiki/Tutorial:Querying-Wikipedia-with-mwclient


Prototype workflows

page index 

   > i guess we need an index of pages on before hand?
   < yes! this creates a python data object > dict {} > listing all the pages (andré is working on this)

questions

Type 1 - Are you a morning or an evening person? (API metadata) 

   Q1
   > each question makes the list smaller ...
   
   Q2
   > and smaller ...
   
   Q3
   > and smaller ...
   
   > list of pages > article index

Type 2 - What topic are you interested in? (API search)

Type 3 - ? (Liberian chat, IRC, manual selection)

article index (to come)

api content gathering (next step)

layouts (far future)

Links & tools that can be useful

Hardware printer screen interface?

  • inspiration from the fancy printers here?
  • or inspiration from the riso print (has a more interesting interface)
  • use curses?

Wdka-printer-interface-secure-queue.jpg


WORK SESSION 1 🤯

18 September 2018 Manetta, Andre, Clara

👽 🤖 💩 (in no particular order)

  • poop is kyute

Books / websites / ...

Working with Mediawiki by Yaron Koren http://www.workingwithmediawiki.com/book/

For next session

  • questionnaire translated to API calls (even using python when necessary)
    • prototype
  • all pages content download and identifying most common words

http://www.workingwithmediawiki.com/wwm-2ed-cover.png

TO DOs - quick n dirty

  • Andre: API overview.
  • Manetta: style
  • Clara: a glossary of the categories: what do they mean, this could be a yearly task for a student editorial board (!)


Interwiki: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interwiki


Questions

  • server: hosted by ICT @ wdka > 194.61.64.188
    • ssh access: ssh key
    • backups? > We genereren momenteel 1x per week een snapshot, verder worden er (nog) geen backups aangemaakt.
    • check email address > wdka.beyondsocial@hr.nl (sent an email to it, let's see if someone replies)
    • looking at the article forms, maybe good to do together?

API

=Page Properties

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Properties

https://www.mediawiki.org/w/api.php?action=help&modules=query

Property queries get various data about a list of pages specified with either the titles=, pageids=, or revids=

To use the propery query, specify prop=property1|property2... in the url.

'page's metadata


Pages revisions

http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=query&titles=BS%20SHADOW%20LIBRARY&prop=revisions&rvprop=timestamp%7Cuser%7Cids&rvdir=newer&rvlimit=1

Comparing revisions / diffs (Note: the html format of the revision seems a bit messy. Python lib mwclient has nice revisions query implementation)

Using action=compare between 2 revisions ids. Exampe: http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=compare&fromrev=12550&torev=12561

Example: http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=compare&fromtitle=BS%20SHADOW%20LIBRARY&totitle=BS%20SHADOW%20LIBRARY&


wiki search 👻

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Search

http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=search&srnamespace=0%7C6&srsearch=sharing

Search the term "sharing" in title http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=search&srwhat=title&srsearch=sharing

Search the term "sharing" in text http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=search&srwhat=text &srsearch=sharingi

Search the term "sharing" in title & text of files (namespace 6) http://beyond-social.org/wiki/api.php?format=json&action=query&list=search&srwhat=title%7Ctext&srnamespace=6&srsearch=sharing

A few more API requests examples:

Non-Ether Pad

Full Scan FULL SCAN Developer Non-Ether Pad.jpg



Detail DETAIL Developer Non-Ether Pad.jpg





https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Transclusion_simple.svg/250px-Transclusion_simple.svg.png

'server side things

  • give andre account -- DONE
  • back up > check > 1x/week there is a snapshot made
  • server = ubuntu
  • ubuntu updates?
  • wiki update to latest version (now 1.29 > 1.31)
  • future: explore cargo

From Q's to print (q2print workflow)

... Start of 'session' ...

The person is walking to the printer ... Questionair for the text based interface ... which is a list of questions ...

  • using 'useless' information made useful
    • morning/evening person (page edited in the morning/evening)
    • star sign (page edited in a certain month)
  • questions based on interest, we can ask for a desctiption of a topic for example. What then happens .... options:
    • but respond with topics that are different (non echo-chamber)
    • respond with one echo-chamber + one non echo-chamber
  • librarian chats

... will generate a list of articles.

Each question in the questionair triggers a specific API request, and returns the wiki information back wiki information = link to an article (in the form of a revid or a section of an article)

Then ....

API content gathering script

  • requests for each article:
    • content
    • first edit
    • last edit
    • contributors
      • sub-API-request: last 10 articles edited by this person
    • categories
      • sub-API-request: all articles in the same category (eg. for one of the categories of this page)
    • revision diffs
    • links to other articles (inside the BS wiki, or outside if we use that)

Then ... this goes to the print layout(s)

  • html-to-print
  • latex
  • dot-matrix layout

> How can we include the q&a mechanism into the flow? And bring it back into the print layout(s).

What can we feed back into the wiki?

  • how often a page is printed

Tools to prepare the questionair

  • nltk most common words counter script (+- 1hour)


DEVELOPMENT MEETING

7 September 2018 Manetta, Kimmy, Andre, Clara

SUMMARY

General Impressions

Students don’t understand the page, find it hard to contribute, constraining in terms of format.

Content needs a lot of wetnursing, it doesn't organically appear, you need to "chase" after people to get them to contribute.

It is not fully integrated into class/course material.

It needs a critical mass to sustain it on its own.

Needs freshness, wildness, unpredictability, but still an underlying structure that makes it easy to navigate.

Events page is important.


Concept ELIA

PROMISCUOUS PRINT SERVICE?
CHATTY PRINT SERVICE?

Continuing the idea of what BS looks like in physical form, how does it become human, material, present in a space, able to engage with its community.

Can the platform be made to speak? How can a digital platform give and be given a human voice?

Three printers, serving three layers of information in the form of a personalized magazine.

The content of the magazine is served to each visitor in three ways.


Printer Types

DOT MATRIX Cover

LASER Guts

RECEIPT Metadata (Chatroom Transcript)


Modes of Content Service

1. VIA METADATA (Limited Answer Survey)

Automated survey chat with questions related to metadata. Making useful to humans information that is usually readable only for machines. Answers are Y/N, multiple choice. 

2. VIA CATEGORIES (Free Answer Survey)

Automated survey that allows visitors to help define categories in the wiki. The content they are served corresponds to keywords the have typed in. 

3. VIA HUMAN INTERACTION (Chatroom)

Talk to a Librarian — Shadow Chat

Volunteers of the BS Shadow Library chat with visitors, quizzing them briefly on what they are working on, interested in, not interested in, lacking or having too much of in their research. Based on this interaction, the librarian will serve content from the BS Shadow Library. Blurring the line between machinic and human voice, technoanimism as reality!

To Be Determined

1. TIME LIMIT FOR LIBRARIAN CHAT?

Shall the shadow chat be timed? 3 min limit? Productivity goals, as in call centers? A 3-min time limit that the librarians can choose to respect or not respect. Perhaps for the visitor the librarian "breaking the rules" for them and extending chat more than 3 min could be humanizing. 

2. SHADOW SHADOW CHAT? (Maybe too much?)

Shall we include the feature of more than one librarian, having a secret shadow chat about the visitor to help serve them information? Then this shadow shadow chat (which appears and reappears in different sizes and locations at all BS physical event spaces, gathering material from students and teachers of the WdKA Social Practice Department's network) 

3. SIMPLIFY?

Three printers too much? Probably necessary at some point to pull ideas back. Would be fine with pre-printing the covers on the dot matrix. But I dunno. For now, this is a wish list. Let's see how far we can go.

Task List

1. Use content that is there, write or commission (probably write) an introductory essay

2. To make the schematic, need metadata

3. Printer to Wiki conversation : make a schematic/ write the interview

4. Designing Print Pages - LaTeX… playing with printers, formats, fonts, image treatments

5. Trace of the print history + chat

Schedule

LOCATION

Publication Station 

TIME

10–16h 

DATES

Sept 18 TUES

Sept 21 FRI

Sept 25 TUES

Oct 5 FRI

Oct 12 FRI

Oct 19 FRI

Nov 2 FRI

Nov 9 FRI

Nov 14 WED ------- PROTOTYPE TEST or FEEDBACK DAY?

Nov 16 FRI ------- PROTOTYPE TEST or FEEDBACK DAY?

Nov 23 FRI ------- DEADLINE: ELIA DAY 


NOTES

FRIDAY / TUESDAY Andre Free

Spend 60 hours now

Spend 30 hours for HNI February / Graduation Show

Schedule is 6 hours work on Friday, some Tuesdays depending on availability

10 am - 4 pm