Lionsberg-Meta Project Wiki Posse, 2022-05-20

History

• Jordan and Pete have done a bunch of work to go through why Wiki, why Massive Wiki, why tools...
• Pete and Bill have gone through a bunch of work to know we probably want to use Obsidian and SyncThing?

Concerns

• access and authorization
• practical accessibility for different kinds of people
• not forcing people to use Massive Wiki, even though they can easily utilize the components and contribute to a Massive Wiki in other ways

Primary Goals (for this meeting)

• 1. Have a Wiki: Start a Lionsberg | Meta Project wiki website with a primary goal to gather a set of documents / “The Way” / the plans and specifications with the hope that it would help provide context and clarity for everyone.
• 2. Know how to use wiki: Make sure Jordan can write on the wiki.
• 3. Document how others can comment and collaborate.
  • This may be something like how a diverse group of specialists collaborates on a set of plans and specifications on a building project.
  • Roles, access structures, authorizations, etc.
  • How to tie these written words out to the other visualizations etc.
• 4. Make sure anyone on the web can read the wiki.

Secondary Goals (as best currently understood)

• Create a project charter for the Wiki Posse
• Find / rewrite "why Massive Wiki"?

Skills

• Write in Markdown...
• Structured Writing
• Use Double Brackets instead of [Single Brackets] Jordan has been using...
• Develop a Semantics of How We Write...
  • and compare/contrast How We Write and Wiki Languaging
  • as an example of a semantic "language" or semantic patterning, C2-style wikis use Short Noun Phrases.
• Develop a Syntax of how we write...
• a set of important words] that is like semantic language - and how we tie these various standards together in a way we can make sense of...
• How to take Semantic Content into some kind of mathematical langauge like (maybe) TLA+
• How to take TLA+ into code.

Tech Infrastructure

• Obsidian, a PKM and also a good Massive Wiki client

• HackMD, a collaborative Markdown editor

• Syncthing, a way to keep multiple people's copies of a wiki in sync

  • Sits on both places, ensures that changes happen in all places...
  • Why this vs. something like Box / Google Drive...
    • Syncthing is open source...
    • Difference of architecture... used to have centralized architecture, Massive Wiki is inside out... everyone gets a copy of wiki on their own computer... decenetrlaization, privacy, redundancy... Everyone has own copy, and GIT or syncthing keeps them up to date...
    • And things we have to deal with to realize those benefits...
    • Could centralize with Box etc...
    • Because we want to be open source and P2P... it is literally that way...
    • Decentralization, sovereigns, etc.
    • LOCKSS - Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe
  • Syncthing across trusted allies... one or more gatekeeper who can manage GIT...
  • For Lionsberg | Meta Project
    • Might be forks... different authorization domains...
    • Lots of similar copies of same original starting place... with lots of clones / forks... that can be back-folded into original...
    • Each clone has different authorization domain...
    • We have one trusted place... keep adding that to that...
    • Then a gatekeeper... can run GIT...
      • Gatekeeper Responsibilities
        • be part of the Syncthing cloud
        • make regular (at least daily) archival copies to a safe, versioned repository
          • With GIT - to GitHub or CSC Git host
    • GIT is very careful when making copies... have to have a login... public can read not write... GIT makes a snapshot of every change...
    • GIT - protocol for exchangign files with safety, authorization, and versioning...
    • to centralize that use something like GitHub...
    • Mulitiple teams doing fork and pull... different teams with different access control...
    • Experience - GIT not very rewarding... not much benefit...
    • A joy to be interlinking text changes, with fine grained control... the satisfaction of a team sport... what you are doing, how everyone operates, passing the ball effortlessly, infrastructural skills melt away and be in collaboration... GIT and GITHUB do that...

• Syncthing 2

  • Click icon on top bar. opens browser.
  • Placing of sync'd files on computer so you can find them.
  • Install syncthing... give Pete Code that says who my computer is... Pete plugs back in devide ID... and away we go...

• Git

• GitHub

• Massive Wiki Builder, converts a Massive Wiki into a static website

• *.gardens.wiki, the CSC wiki farm

  • e.g., peterkaminski.gardens.wiki
  • metaproject.gardens.wiki
  • mp-wiki-posse.gardens.wiki
  • mp-sandbox.gardens.wiki

• What creates the overview and knowing what to find where?

Other Stuff

• expressing structure in a mathematical language like TLA+

Notes

• Obsidian calls them Vaults... Git calls them Repos...
• You can look at it as a file and folder structure...
  • Just files and folders on your computer... it is files and folders, so it works like files and folders...
  • Right click, show in system explorer.
  • Can open with different kinds of editors... Typora, etc.
  • Typora doesn't understand wikilinks... but understands markdown
• Obsidian - settings...
  • appearance... light mode. settings saved per vault on your computer.
  • Core Plugins
    • Keyboard search
    • Backlinks
  • Plugins
    • Some good / some not
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• Where is Lionsberg | Meta Project stored...
  • Was originally going to be wiki.lionsberg.org
  • Preacing sovereigns, decentralization, federation, multiple service providers for core stuff...
  • So realized that we need lots of wikis...
  • and one startpage that points to - the various amazing wikis... some people, some sovereigns, etc. will end up with different focuses, sets of rules etc.
• Standardized way to use comments - to add comments... hypothesis... wiki maintainer comes along and sweeps into the wiki...